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Three new cholesterol-containing phosphoramidites where synthesized and use
d in automated synthesis of modified DNA fragments. These cholesterol lesio
ns are good substrates for the E. coil UvrABC endonuclease. In vitro they a
re incised from damaged DNA with higher efficiency in respect with the chol
esterol lesions previously published.