화학공학소재연구정보센터
Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, Vol.44, No.10, 3271-3278, 2006
2' Substituted sergeants influencing the deoxy soldiers in folded oligonucleotides
We demonstrate that conformational-biased monomers can alter neighboring monomer conformation leading to globe changes in polymer topology. This work is compared to the "sergeants and soldiers" effect observed when a small percentage of optically active monomers control a polymer's helical handedness. Specifically, we show that one biased monomer in a sequence of flexible monomers yields an oligonucleotide block copolymer that folds into two topologies with competitive free energies and activation barriers (from an unfolded state). Double substitutions, on the other hand, have varying degrees of influence depending on the position of the second substitution. Substitutions within the same guanosine block have a lesser effect relative to substitutions in different blocks.