Table 1. Oligomer sequence, Tm values and inhibition of luciferase activity data for LNAs and LNA–DNA chimeras that target the 5′-UTR of luciferase mRNA.
ID | Sequence 5′→3′ | Tm (°C) DNA:DNA | Tm (°C) LNA:DNA | Inhibition (%) | ||
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25 nM | 100 nM | 200 nM | ||||
I | AgggTcGcTCGGT | 66 | ND | 50 | 63 | 76 |
II | AgggTcGcTCAAT | 51 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
III | ACACCGAGcGacccT | 71 | ND | 0 | 0 | 0 |
IV | AgggTcGcTCGGTgT | 71 | ND | 69 | 80 | 95 |
V | AgggTcGcTCAATgT | 66 | 83 | 20 | 19 | 21 |
VI | AGGGTCGCTCGGTGT | 66 | ND | 76 | 83 | 93 |
VII | TAaGcggGTcGcTGC | 66 | 86 | 28 | 36 | 48 |
VIII | AGGGtcgctcgGTGT | 71 | 78 | 33 | 74 | 81 |
IX | TCGAgatctgcGGCA | 64 | 68 | 11 | 22 | 25 |
X | TTACcaacagtACCG | 54 | 71 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Capitalized letters within a sequence represent LNA bases, lower case letters represent DNA bases and underlined bases depict mismatches relative to the mRNA target. ND, Tm not determined because it was too high to accurately measure.