Objective
In the first place organic synthetic work will be carried out on one or two purine nucleoside analogues to incorporate them into oligonucleotides. The particular structures will be chosen to give them the character of hydrogen-bond ambiguity (or degenerate).
The nucleotides will be studied carefully by spectroscopic and other methods to give a detailed picture of their tautomeric states. This will be correlated with the stabilities (thermal dissociation temperatures) of oligonucleotide duplexes containing them and a full thermodynamic study will be made.
Such oligonucleotides will be studied as hybridisation primers for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of genomic DNA. Earlier work has shown the feasibility of using this in gene probing. Its extension to a generally applicable methodology for use by molecular biologists is the expected outcome.
The application of such oligomers, in which the degenerate residues act as neutral bases in 2D-assays for DNA sequencing by hybridisation is an important objective.
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CB2 2QH Cambridge
United Kingdom
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