Abstract
(Chemical Equation Presented) To improve the efficiency of a nucleic acid triggered probe activation (NATPA) system a 5-thiomethyluracil peptide nucleic acid (PNA) building block has been synthesized. Attachment of imidazole and a coumarin ester to uracils at the ends of two PNAs resulted in a 550 000-fold acceleration of DNA-triggered coumarin release relative to imidazole and a 6-fold increase in kcat relative to a system which had these groups attached to the amino and carboxy ends of PNAs.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 751-754 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Organic Letters |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 5 |
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| State | Published - Mar 3 2005 |