Method for incorporating into a DNA or RNA oligonucleotide using nucleotides bearing heterocyclic bases
First Claim
1. A method for incorporating into a DNA or RNA oligonucleotide chain at least one nucleotide unit bearing a heterocyclic base selected from the group consisting of the structural formulae of FIG. 4, wherein --R designates the point of attachment of the base to position 1 of a ribose or deoxyribose ring, X is either a nitrogen atom or a carbon atom bearing a substituent Z, Z is either a hydrogen, an unfunctionalized lower alkyl chain, or a lower alkyl chain bearing an amino, carboxyl, hydroxyl, thiol, aryl, indole, or imidazolyl group, Y is either N or CH, and each ring contains no more than three nitrogens consecutively bonded, that consists of synthesizing a template that is an oligonucleotide containing one or more nucleotide subunits bearing a heterocyclic base selected from the group consisting of the structural formulae of FIG. 4, dissolving this template in buffered aqueous solution, adding to the solution nucleoside triphosphates complementary to the nucleotide subunits in the template, adding to this solution a solution of a DNA or RNA polymerase, and incubating said mixture of the solutions such that an oligonucleotide chain complementary to the template and incorporating said at least one oligonucleotide unit bearing a heterocyclic base selected from the group consisting of the structural formulae of FIG. 4 is synthesized.
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Abstract
The disclosure describes a method for incorporating into double stranded DNA and RNA base pairs composed of pairing units that fit the Watson-Crick geometry in that they involve a monocyclic six membered ring pairing with a fused bicyclic heterocyclic ring system composed of a five member ring fused with a six membered ring, with the orientation of the heterocycles with respect to each other and with respect to the backbone chain analogous to that found in DNA and RNA, but with a pattern of hydrogen bonds holding the base pair together different from that found in the AT and GC base pairs (a "non-standard base pair").
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- 1. A method for incorporating into a DNA or RNA oligonucleotide chain at least one nucleotide unit bearing a heterocyclic base selected from the group consisting of the structural formulae of FIG. 4, wherein --R designates the point of attachment of the base to position 1 of a ribose or deoxyribose ring, X is either a nitrogen atom or a carbon atom bearing a substituent Z, Z is either a hydrogen, an unfunctionalized lower alkyl chain, or a lower alkyl chain bearing an amino, carboxyl, hydroxyl, thiol, aryl, indole, or imidazolyl group, Y is either N or CH, and each ring contains no more than three nitrogens consecutively bonded, that consists of synthesizing a template that is an oligonucleotide containing one or more nucleotide subunits bearing a heterocyclic base selected from the group consisting of the structural formulae of FIG. 4, dissolving this template in buffered aqueous solution, adding to the solution nucleoside triphosphates complementary to the nucleotide subunits in the template, adding to this solution a solution of a DNA or RNA polymerase, and incubating said mixture of the solutions such that an oligonucleotide chain complementary to the template and incorporating said at least one oligonucleotide unit bearing a heterocyclic base selected from the group consisting of the structural formulae of FIG. 4 is synthesized.
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