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. 1992 Jul 11;20(13):3325–3332. doi: 10.1093/nar/20.13.3325

Synthesis and properties of mirror-image DNA.

H Urata 1, E Ogura 1, K Shinohara 1, Y Ueda 1, M Akagi 1
PMCID: PMC312484  PMID: 1630904

Abstract

We have investigated the conformations of the hexadeoxyribonucleotide, L-d(CGCGCG) composed of L-deoxyribose, the mirror image molecule of natural D-deoxyribose. In this paper, we report the synthesis of four L-deoxynucleosides and the L-oligonucleotide-ethidium bromide interactions. The L-deoxyribose synthon 9 was synthesized from L-arabinose with an over all yield of 28.5% via the Barton-McCombie reaction. The L-deoxynucleosides were obtained by a glycosylation of appropriate nucleobase derivatives with the 1-chloro sugar 9. After derivatization to nucleoside phosphoramidites, L-deoxycytidine and L-deoxyguanosine were incorporated into a hexadeoxynucleotide, L-d(CGCGCG) by a solid-phase beta-cyanoethylphosphoramidite method. This L-hexanucleotide was resistant to digestion with nuclease P1. The conformations of L-d(CGCGCG) were an exact mirror image of that of the corresponding natural one as described previously, and the conformations of the L-d(CGCGCG)-ethidium bromide complex were also the mirror images of those of the D-d(CGCGCG)-ethidium bromide complex under both low and high salt conditions. These results suggest that ethidium bromide prefers not a right-handed helical sense, but the base-base stacking geometry of the B-form rather than that of the Z-form. Thus, L-DNA would be a useful tool for studying DNA-drug interactions.

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