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Design of antisense oligonucleotides stabilized by locked nucleic acids.


ABSTRACT: The design of antisense oligonucleotides containing locked nucleic acids (LNA) was optimized and compared to intensively studied DNA oligonucleotides, phosphorothioates and 2'-O-methyl gapmers. In contradiction to the literature, a stretch of seven or eight DNA monomers in the center of a chimeric DNA/LNA oligonucleotide is necessary for full activation of RNase H to cleave the target RNA. For 2'-O-methyl gapmers a stretch of six DNA monomers is sufficient to recruit RNase H. Compared to the 18mer DNA the oligonucleotides containing LNA have an increased melting temperature of 1.5-4 degrees C per LNA depending on the positions of the modified residues. 2'-O-methyl nucleotides increase the T(m) by only <1 degree C per modification and the T(m) of the phosphorothioate is reduced. The efficiency of an oligonucleotide in supporting RNase H cleavage correlates with its affinity for the target RNA, i.e. LNA > 2'-O-methyl > DNA > phosphorothioate. Three LNAs at each end of the oligonucleotide are sufficient to stabilize the oligonucleotide in human serum 10-fold compared to an unmodified oligodeoxynucleotide (from t(1/2) = approximately 1.5 h to t(1/2) = approximately 15 h). These chimeric LNA/DNA oligonucleotides are more stable than isosequential phosphorothioates and 2'-O-methyl gapmers, which have half-lives of 10 and 12 h, respectively.

SUBMITTER: Kurreck J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC113840 | biostudies-literature | 2002 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Design of antisense oligonucleotides stabilized by locked nucleic acids.

Kurreck Jens J   Wyszko Eliza E   Gillen Clemens C   Erdmann Volker A VA  

Nucleic acids research 20020501 9


The design of antisense oligonucleotides containing locked nucleic acids (LNA) was optimized and compared to intensively studied DNA oligonucleotides, phosphorothioates and 2'-O-methyl gapmers. In contradiction to the literature, a stretch of seven or eight DNA monomers in the center of a chimeric DNA/LNA oligonucleotide is necessary for full activation of RNase H to cleave the target RNA. For 2'-O-methyl gapmers a stretch of six DNA monomers is sufficient to recruit RNase H. Compared to the 18m  ...[more]

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