Sequence-Specific Association in Aqueous Media by Integrating Hydrogen Bonding and Dynamic Covalent Interactions
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Abstract
Oligoamide strands that associate in a sequence-specific fashion into hydrogen-bonded duplexes in nonpolar solvents were converted into disulfide cross-linked duplexes in aqueous media. Thus, by incorporating trityl-protected thiol groups, which allows the reversible formation of disulfide bonds, into the oligoamide strands, only duplexes consisting of complementary hydrogen-bonding sequences were formed in aqueous solution as well as in methanol. The sequence-specific cross-linking of oligoamide strands was confirmed by MALDI-TOF, reverse-phase HPLC, and by isolating a cross-linked duplex. This study demonstrates that the sequence-specificity characteristic of multiply hydrogen-bonded systems can be extended into competitive media through the interplay of H-bonding and reversible covalent interactions, based on which a new class of molecular associating and ligating units that are compatible with both polar and nonpolar environments can be conveniently obtained.
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