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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 109, Issue 32, Pages 12884-12887Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1210846109
Keywords
artificial enzymes; nucleic acids
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- National Science Foundation grant [CHEM-0948318]
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Four polyimidazoles were used in the binding and cleavage studies with poly(U). The two polydisperse polyvinylimidazoles were previously described by others, while the other two new polymers of polyethyleneimines were prepared by cationic polymerization of oxazolines. The latter had imidazole units attached to each nitrogen of the polymers. They were characterized by gel permeation chromatography and had very low polydispersities. When they were partially protonated they bound to the poly(U) and catalyzed its cleavage by a process analogous to that used by the enzyme ribonuclease A. The kinetics of the cleavage were followed by an assay we had previously described using phosphodiesterase I from Crotalus venom after the cleavage processes. Cleavage of poly(U) with Zn2+ was also examined, with and without the polymers. A scheme is described in which these cleavages could be made sequence selective with various RNAs, particularly with important targets, such as viral RNAs.
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