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A Highly Enantio-Selective Hexitol Nucleic Acid Template for Nonenzymic Oligoguanylate Synthesis

1999
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The authors compare the enantiomeric cross-inhibition of D- and L-guanosine 5'-phosphoro-2-methyl-imidazole (I) polymn. on C10 (RNA), dC10 (DNA), or hC10 (hexitol nucleic acid) (II). RNA or DNA templates catalyze efficient oligomerization of D-I, with a strong enantiomeric cross-inhibition by L-I, but II shows efficient oligomerization of D-I with a less sever cross-inhibition, resulting in G6-9 polymers, thus showing that efficient selection of one optical isomer from a racemic mixt. of nucleotides during nonenzymic oligo-nucleotide synthesis on an analog of a nucleic acid template is possible, which may be of relevance to prebiotic conditions. [on SciFinder (R)]

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1999
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Nucleic acid analogue

Nucleic acid analogues are compounds which are analogous (structurally similar) to naturally occurring RNA and DNA, used in medicine and in molecular biology research. Nucleic acids are chains of nucleotides, which are composed of three parts: a phosphate backbone, a pentose sugar, either ribose or deoxyribose, and one of four nucleobases. An analogue may have any of these altered. Typically the analogue nucleobases confer, among other things, different base pairing and base stacking properties.

Enantiomer

In chemistry, an enantiomer (/ɪˈnænti.əmər, ɛ-, -oʊ-/ ih-NAN-tee-ə-mər; from Ancient Greek ἐνάντιος (enántios) 'opposite', and μέρος (méros) 'part') – also called optical isomer, antipode, or optical antipode – is one of two stereoisomers that are non-superposable onto their own . Enantiomers are much like one's right and left hands, when looking at the same face, they cannot be superposed onto each other. No amount of reorientation in three spatial dimensions will allow the four unique groups on the chiral carbon (see chirality) to line up exactly.

Chirality (chemistry)

In chemistry, a molecule or ion is called chiral (ˈkaɪrəl) if it cannot be superposed on its by any combination of rotations, translations, and some conformational changes. This geometric property is called chirality (kaɪˈrælɪti). The terms are derived from Ancient Greek χείρ (cheir) 'hand'; which is the canonical example of an object with this property. A chiral molecule or ion exists in two stereoisomers that are mirror images of each other, called enantiomers; they are often distinguished as either "right-handed" or "left-handed" by their absolute configuration or some other criterion.

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