M. Eriksson, L. Christensen, J. Schmidt, G. Haaima, L. Orgel, P. Nielsen
{"title":"Sequence dependent N-terminal rearrangement and degradation of peptide nucleic acid (PNA) in aqueous solution.","authors":"M. Eriksson, L. Christensen, J. Schmidt, G. Haaima, L. Orgel, P. Nielsen","doi":"10.1039/A803214I","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1039/A803214I","url":null,"abstract":"The stability of the PNA (peptide nucleic acid) thymine monomer ¿N-[2-(thymin-1-ylacetyl)]-N-(2-aminoaminoethyl)glycine¿ and those of various PNA oligomers (5-8-mers) have been measured at room temperature (20 degrees C) as a function of pH. The thymine monomer undergoes N-acyl transfer rearrangement with a half-life of 34 days at pH 11 as analyzed by 1H NMR; and two reactions, the N-acyl transfer and a sequential degradation, are found by HPLC analysis to occur at measurable rates for the oligomers at pH 9 or above. Dependent on the amino-terminal sequence, half-lives of 350 h to 163 days were found at pH 9. At pH 12 the half-lives ranged from 1.5 h to 21 days. The results are discussed in terms of PNA as a gene therapeutic drug as well as a possible prebiotic genetic material.","PeriodicalId":82194,"journal":{"name":"Nouveau journal de chimie","volume":"22 1","pages":"1055-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1039/A803214I","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58044767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}