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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
卷 35, 期 21, 页码 7279-7287出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm771
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Hairpin nucleic acid probes have been highly useful in many areas, especially for intracellular and in vitro nucleic acid detection. The success of these probes can be attributed to the ease with which their conformational change upon target binding can be coupled to a variety of signal transduction mechanisms. However, false-positive signals arise from the opening of the hairpin due mainly to thermal fluctuations and stem invasions. Stem invasions occur when the stem interacts with its complementary sequence and are especially problematic in complex biological samples. To address the problem of stem invasions in hairpin probes, we have created a modified molecular beacon that incorporates unnatural enantiomeric L-DNA in the stem and natural D-DNA or 2'-O-Me-modified RNA in the loop. L-DNA has the same physical characteristics as D-DNA except that L-DNA cannot form stable duplexes with D-DNA. Here we show that incorporating L-DNA into the stem region of a molecular beacon reduces intra- and intermolecular stem invasions, increases the melting temperature, improves selectivity to its target, and leads to enhanced bio-stability. Our results suggest that L-DNA is useful for designing functional nucleic acid probes especially for biological applications.
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