Molecular Assemblies of Metal Complexes via Base-Pairing of Nucleic Acids in the Crystalline State

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (30) ◽  
pp. 7232-7237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manabu Nakaya ◽  
Ryo Ohtani ◽  
Kunihisa Sugimoto ◽  
Masaaki Nakamura ◽  
Leonard F. Lindoy ◽  
...  
2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (30) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manabu Nakaya ◽  
Ryo Ohtani ◽  
Kunihisa Sugimoto ◽  
Masaaki Nakamura ◽  
Leonard F. Lindoy ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Dayanidhi Paul Elisa Sundar ◽  
Vaidyanathan Ganesan

Studies on the binding interaction of small molecules and nucleic acids have been explored for their biological applications. With excellent photophysical/chemical properties, numerous metal complexes have been studied as structural...


2014 ◽  
Vol 118 (30) ◽  
pp. 9037-9045 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xing Yin ◽  
Jing Kong ◽  
Arnie De Leon ◽  
Yongle Li ◽  
Zhijie Ma ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 2131-2138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keunsoo Kim ◽  
Venkateshwarlu Punna ◽  
Phaneendrasai Karri ◽  
Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy

IsoGNA, an isomer of glycerol nucleic acid GNA, is a flexible (acyclic) nucleic acid with bases directly attached to its linear backbone. IsoGNA exhibits (limited) base-pairing properties which are unique compared to other known flexible nucleic acids. Herein, we report on the details of the preparation of isoGNA phosphoramidites and an alternative route for the synthesis of the adenine derivative. The synthetic improvements described here enable an easy access to isoGNA and allows for the further exploration of this structural unit in oligonucleotide chemistry thereby spurring investigations of its usefulness and applicability.


Life ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold Bernhardt

A mixture of sugar diphosphates is produced in reactions between small aldehyde phosphates catalysed by layered double hydroxide (LDH) clays under plausibly prebiotic conditions. A subset of these, pentose diphosphates, constitute the backbone subunits of nucleic acids capable of base pairing, which is not the case for the other products of these LDH-catalysed reactions. Not only that, but to date no other polymer found capable of base pairing—and therefore information transfer—has a backbone for which its monomer subunits have a plausible prebiotic synthesis, including the ribose-5-phosphate backbone subunit of RNA. Pentose diphosphates comprise the backbone monomers of pentopyranose nucleic acids, some of the strongest base pairing systems so far discovered. We have previously proposed that the first base pairing interactions were between purine nucleobase precursors, and that these were weaker and less specific than standard purine-pyrimidine interactions. We now propose that the inherently stronger pairing of pentopyranose nucleic acids would have compensated for these weaker interactions, and produced an informational polymer capable of undergoing nonenzymatic replication. LDH clays might also have catalysed the synthesis of the purine nucleobase precursors, and the polymerization of pentopyranose nucleotide monomers into oligonucleotides, as well as the formation of the first lipid bilayers.


2011 ◽  
Vol 107 ◽  
pp. 339 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Suntharalingam ◽  
R. Vilar

2009 ◽  
Vol 253 (15-16) ◽  
pp. 2021-2035 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Richard Keene ◽  
Jayden A. Smith ◽  
J. Grant Collins

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