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Next-generation bis-locked nucleic acids with stacking linker and 2 '-glycylamino-LNA show enhanced DNA invasion into supercoiled duplexes
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. Stockholm University, Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2706-8705
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Number of Authors: 192016 (English)In: Nucleic Acids Research, ISSN 0305-1048, E-ISSN 1362-4962, Vol. 44, no 5, p. 2007-2019Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Targeting and invading double-stranded DNA with synthetic oligonucleotides under physiological conditions remain a challenge. Bis-locked nucleic acids (bisLNAs) are clamp-forming oligonucleotides able to invade into supercoiled DNA via combined Hoogsteen and Watson-Crick binding. To improve the bisLNA design, we investigated its mechanism of binding. Our results suggest that bisLNAs bind via Hoogsteen-arm first, followed by Watson-Crick arm invasion, initiated at the tail. Based on this proposed hybridization mechanism, we designed next-generation bisLNAs with a novel linker able to stack to adjacent nucleobases, a new strategy previously not applied for any type of clamp-constructs. Although the Hoogsteen-arm limits the invasion, upon incorporation of the stacking linker, bisLNA invasion is significantly more efficient than for non-clamp, or nucleotide-linker containing LNA-constructs. Further improvements were obtained by substituting LNA with 2'-glycylamino-LNA, contributing a positive charge. For regular bisLNAs a 14-nt tail significantly enhances invasion. However, when two stacking linkers were incorporated, tail-less bisLNAs were able to efficiently invade. Finally, successful targeting of plasmids inside bacteria clearly demonstrates that strand invasion can take place in a biologically relevant context.

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2016. Vol. 44, no 5, p. 2007-2019
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-130148DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw021ISI: 000373723100013PubMedID: 26857548OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-130148DiVA, id: diva2:928579
Available from: 2016-05-16 Created: 2016-05-09 Last updated: 2022-03-23Bibliographically approved

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