Photo-editable macromolecular information.

ABSTRACT: Light-induced alteration of macromolecular information plays a central role in biology and is known to influence health, aging and Darwinian evolution. Here, we report that light can also trigger sequence variations in abiotic information-containing polymers. Sequence-coded poly(phosphodiester)s were synthesized using four phosphoramidite monomers containing either photo-sensitive or photo-inert substituents. These monomers allow different sequence manipulations. For instance, using two light-cleavable monomers containing o-nitrobenzyl ether and o-nitroveratryl ether motifs, photo-erasable digital polymers were prepared. These polymers can be decoded by tandem mass spectrometry but become unreadable after UVA exposure. The opposite behavior, i.e. photo-revealable sequences, was obtained wi

SUBMITTER: Konig NF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6726599 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature