A concise method for the preparation of peptide and arginine-rich peptide-conjugated antisense oligonucleotide

Bioconjug Chem. 2003 May-Jun;14(3):532-8. doi: 10.1021/bc034004f.

Abstract

Peptide-oligonucleotide conjugates were synthesized using two strategies: a mimetic signal peptide-conjugated oligonucleotide was assembled stepwise on CPG by using 2,2-dimethyl-3-hydroxypropionic acid as a linker. To solve the precipitation problem in the coupling reaction caused by the electrostatic interaction of arginine-rich peptides and oligonucleotide, oligonucleotides were absorbed on an anion-exchange resin, and then the on-resin fragment was applied for the conjugation with arginine-rich peptide. The peptide-antisense oligonucleotides showed permeability to the cell membrane of HepG-2 cells.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Arginine / chemical synthesis*
  • Arginine / genetics
  • Cell Line
  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / methods
  • Humans
  • Oligonucleotides, Antisense / chemical synthesis*
  • Oligonucleotides, Antisense / genetics
  • Peptides / chemical synthesis*
  • Peptides / genetics

Substances

  • Oligonucleotides, Antisense
  • Peptides
  • Arginine