Special Thematic Issue “Nucleic Acid Derivatives: Organic Chemistry” for Molecules

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Selected Leading Papers
1. Heise, C.; Bier, F. F. Immobilization of DNA on microarray. Top. Curr. Chem. 2005, 261, 1-25.
2. Sasaki, S.; Nagatsugi, F. Application of unnatural oligonucleotides to chemical modification of gene expression. Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 2006, 10, 615-621.
3. LaRowe, D. E.; Helgeson, H. C. Biomolecules in hydrothermal systems: Calculation of the standard molal thermodynamic properties and nucleotides at elevated of nucleic-acid bases, nucleosides, temperatures and pressures. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 2006, 70, 4680-4724.
4. Rozners, E. Carbohydrate chemistry for RNA interference: Synthesis and properties of RNA analogues modified in sugar-phosphate backbone. Curr. Org. Chem. 2006, 10, 675-692.
5. Nawrot, B.; Sipa, K. Chemical and structural diversity of siRNA molecules. Curr. Top. Med. Chem. 2006, 6, 913-925.
6. Walsh, D. P.; Chang, Y. T. Chemical genetics. Chem. Rev. 2006, 106, 2476-2530.
7. Meier, C. cycloSal phosphates as chemical Trojan horses for intracellular nucleotide and glycosylmonophosphate delivery - Chemistry meets biology. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2006, 1081-1102.
8. Silverman, A. P.; Kool, E. T. Detecting RNA and DNA with templated chemical reactions. Chem. Rev. 2006, 106, 3775-3789.
9. Ulrich, H.; Trujillo, C. A.; Nery, A. A.; Alves, J. M.; Majumder, P.; Resende, R. R.; Martins, A. H. DNA and RNA aptamers: From tools for basic research towards therapeutic applications. Combin. Chem. High Throughput Screen. 2006, 9, 619-632.
10. Lu, Y.; Liu, J. W. Functional DNA nanotechnology: emerging applications of DNAzymes and aptamers. Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 2006, 17, 580-588.
11. Merino, P. Heterocyclic nucleosides: Chemical synthesis and biological properties. Curr. Med. Chem. 2006, 13, 539-545.
12. Hyodo, M.; Hayakawa, Y.; Karaolis, D. K. R. Organic synthesis, chemical properties, and biological activities of cyclic bis(3 '-5 ')diguanylic acid (c-di-GMP) and its analogs. J. Synth. Org. Chem. Jpn. 2006, 64, 359-370.
13. Shakeel, S.; Karim, S.; Ali, A. Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) - a review. J. Chem. Technol. Biotechnol. 2006, 81, 892-899.
14. Schinazi, R. F.; Hernandez-Santiago, B. I.; Hurwitz, S. J. Pharmacology of current and promising nucleosides for the treatment of human immunodeficiency viruses. Antiviral Res. 2006, 71, 322-334.
15. Poijarvi-Virta, P.; Lönnberg, H. Prodrug approaches of nucleotides and oligonucleotides. Curr. Med. Chem. 2006, 13, 3441-3465.
16. Robak, T.; Lech-Maranda, E.; Korycka, A.; Robak, E. Purine nucleoside analogs as immunosuppressive and antineoplastic agents: Mechanism of action and, clinical activity. Curr. Med. Chem. 2006, 13, 3165-3189.
17. Lu, Y. X. Recent advances in the stereocontrolled synthesis of antisense phosphorothioates. Mini-Rev. Med. Chem. 2006, 6, 319-330.
18. Barron, L. D. Structure and behaviour of biomolecules from Raman optical activity. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 2006, 16, 638-643.
19. Khandazhinskaya, A.; Yasko, M.; Shirokova, E. The synthesis and antiviral properties of acyclic nucleoside analogues with a phosphonomethoxy fragment in the side chain. Curr. Med. Chem. 2006, 13, 2953-2980.
20. Golankiewicz, B.; Ostrowski, T. Tricyclic nucleoside analogues as antiherpes agents. Antiviral Res. 2006, 71, 134-140.
21. Egli, M.; Lubini, P.; Pallan, P. S. The long and winding road to the structure of homo-DNA. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2007, 36, 31-45.


Keywords

UTP
GTP
CTP
cAMP
cADPR
cGMP
deoxynucleotides
dAMP
TMP
dGMP
dCMP
dADP
TDP
dGDP
dCDP
dATP
TTP
dGTP
dCTP
ribonucleic acids
RNA
mRNA
tRNA
rRNA
ncRNA
sgRNA
shRNA
siRNA
snRNA
miRNA
snoRNA
LNA
deoxyribonucleic acids
DNA
mtDNA
cDNA
plasmid
cosmid
analogues of nucleic acids
GNA
PNA
TNA
LNA
morpholino
peptide nucleic acid
locked nucleic acid
glycol nucleic acid
threose nucleic acid
synthesis
oligonucleotides
deoxyoligonucleotides
nucleoside triphosphate
NTP
protecting groups



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