Si. Antsypovich et al., SYNTHESIS OF MODIFIED OLIGONUCLEOTIDES AN D THEIR DUPLEXES WITH COVALENTLY-LINKED STRANDS, Bioorganiceskaa himia, 21(10), 1995, pp. 774-780
A method for the synthesis of DNA duplex with covalently linked strand
s was elaborated, and the thermal and hydrolytic stability of the dupl
ex was studied. The strands were connected via an amide bond between c
arboxyl and aliphatic amino groups in the presence of water-soluble ca
rbodiimide. For this purpose, a series of modified 5- to 26-meric olig
onucleotides with primary amino or carboxyl group were prepared, and t
heir properties were investigated.