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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 42, Issue 6, Pages 4068-4079Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1312
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- Singapore Ministry of Education
- Nanyang Technological University Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) program
- Nanyang Technological University
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G-quadruplex-forming oligonucleotides containing modified nucleotide chemistries have demonstrated promising pharmaceutical potential. In this work, we systematically investigate the effects of sugar-modified guanosines on the structure and stability of a (4+0) parallel and a (3+1) hybrid G-quadruplex using over 60 modified sequences containing a single-position substitution of 2'-O-4'-C-methylene-guanosine ((LNA)G), 2'-deoxy-2'-fluoro-riboguanosine ((F)G) or 2'-deoxy-2'-fluoro-arabinoguanosine ((FANA)G). Our results are summarized in two parts: (I) Generally, (LNA)G substitutions into 'anti' position guanines within a guanine-tetrad lead to a more stable G-quadruplex, while substitutions into 'syn' positions disrupt the native G-quadruplex conformation. However, some interesting exceptions to this trend are observed. We discover that a (LNA)G modification upstream of a short propeller loop hinders G-quadruplex formation. (II) A single substitution of either (F)G or (FANA)G into a 'syn' position is powerful enough to perturb the (3+1) G-quadruplex. Substitution of either (F)G or (FANA)G into any 'anti' position is well tolerated in the two G-quadruplex scaffolds. (FANA)G substitutions to 'anti' positions are better tolerated than their (F)G counterparts. In both scaffolds, (FANA)G substitutions to the central tetrad layer are observed to be the most stabilizing. The observations reported herein on the effects of (LNA)G, (F)G and (FANA)G modifications on G-quadruplex structure and stability will enable the future design of pharmaceutically relevant oligonucleotides.
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