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BIOCONJUGATE CHEMISTRY
Volume 26, Issue 6, Pages 1070-1079Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.5b00125
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21302008, 21422201, 21272263]
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2012CB720600]
- State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs [K20140212, K20140204]
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Introduction of 4,4'-bis(hydroxymethyl)-azobenzene (azo) to dumbbell hairpin oligonucleotides at the loop position was able to reversibly control the stability of the whole hairpin structure via UV or visible light irradiation. Here, we designed and synthesized a series of azobenzene linked dumbbell antisense oligodeoxynucleotides (asODNs) containing two terminal hairpins that are composed of an asODN and a short inhibitory sense strand. Thermal melting studies of these azobenzene linked dumbbell asODNs indicated that efficient trans to cis photoisomerization of azobenzene moieties induced large difference in thermal stability (Delta T-m, = 12.1-21.3 degrees C). In addition, photomodulation of their RNA binding abilities and RNA digestion by RNase H was investigated. The trans-azobenzene linked asODNs with the optimized base pairs between asODN strands and inhibitory sense strands could only bind few percentage of the target RNA, while it was able to recover their binding to the target RNA and degrade it by RNase H after light irradiation. Upon optimization, it is promising to use these azobenzene linked asODNs for reversible spatial and temporal regulation of antisense activities based on both steric binding and RNA digestion by RNase H.
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