Purified phenylalanine transfer RNA (tRNA) from yeast has been degraded with pancreatic ribonuclease, and the fragments obtained have been separated and identified. The 3’-terminal nucleoside is cytidine, and the 5’4errninal dinucleotide is pGpCp. Fourteen minor nucleosides are present, including 7-methylguanosine, 2’-0-methylcytidine, and a nucleoside the identity of which is not established. ...

Clickable oligonucleotides with ethynyl residues in the 5-position of pyrimidines ((eth)dC and (eth)dU) or the 7-position of 7-deazaguanine ((eth)c(7)G(d)) are hydrated during solid-phase oligonucleotide synthesis and workup conditions. The side products were identified as acetyl derivatives by MALDI-TOF mass spectra of oligonucleotides and by detection of modified nucleosides after enzymatic p...

Efficient syntheses of pyrimidine and purine nucleosides and nucleotides with selective 13C enrichment in the base moieties are described. Uridine and cytidine are labeled at position C6 and adenosine and guanosine are labeled at position C8. The selectively labeled nucleosides were converted to nucleoside triphosphates and used with in vitro transcription to synthesize labeled RNA. Isotope-edi...

A clone (AE1) of cells resistant to adenosine cytotoxicity was isolated from a mutagenized population of mouse T-lymphoma (S49) cells. These adenosine-resistant cells cannot transport adenosine or any other purine or pyrimidine nucleoside tested, but their transport of purine bases is intact. The AE1 cells also have an impaired ability to salvage thymidine. Kinetic analyses of the uptake of pur...

the glycosylation of 1,3,4-oxadiazole-2-thiones has been performed with peracetylated β-pyranosyl bromide in the presence of potassium carbonate. deprotection of acetylated thioglycosides was necessary for increasing their antibacterial effects. the structure of nucleosides were confirmed by 1h nmr, 13c nmr and hrms. the anomeric protons of nucleosides c1–4 were assigned to the doublet, confirm...

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It has been shown that the quantum yield of the photochemical conversion of adenine and the corresponding nucleosides and nucleoside 5'-phosphates in liquid (pH 5.6 and 2.0) and frozen aqueous solutions do not exceed 10(-4). The quantum yield of the photoconversion of guanine-containing nucleosides and nucleoside 5'-phosphates in liquid aqueous solution (pH 5.6) after removal of oxygen by passi...

A series of 2',3'-dideoxy-3'-fluoro-D-apiosyl nucleosides 15, 16, 17 and 18 were synthesized enantiomerically with L-Gulonic-γ-lactone as the starting material. The reduction of butenolide 1 with DIBAL-H followed by the Luche procedure afforded the allylic alcohol 2. Ozonolysis and the reduction of compound 4 induced the cyclized lactol, which was acetylated to give the acetate 7. Condensation ...

Carbocyclic nucleoside analogues remain interesting target molecules having the potential to combine biological activity with greater metabolic stability than their sugar counterparts. This paper describes a rapid and versatile synthetic approach to such compounds based on commercial cyclopentenones (e.g., 1) that has been developed in our laboratory. Carbocyclic nucleosides like 2 0-methylaris...