Introduction
Novel types of modified derivatives and analogues of nucleobases, nucleosides, nucleotides and nucleic acids are designed and prepared for applications in all areas of biomedicinal sciences (medicinal chemistry, biochemistry, chemical biology, bioanalysis etc.).
Basic developments of methodology for the synthesis of these modified biomolecules are performed largely using modern methods (including metal- or enzyme-catalyzed reactions). Biological activity (cytostatic, antiviral etc.) of the novel nucleobases, nucleosides and nucleotides is systematically studied in collaboration with several groups both in academia and in pharmaceutical industry. Several collaborative projects also address chemical biology of nucleic acids (i.e. DNA polymerase specificity and fidelity). Functionalized nucleic acids bearing diverse interesting and useful substituents are another goal of our group. For details, see Projects.
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Güixens-Gallardo, P. et. al: "Acetophenyl-thienyl-aniline-linked nucleotide for construction of solvatochromic fluorescence light-up DNA probes sensing protein-DNA interactions" Chem. Eur. J. 2021, in press. Ondruš, M.; et. al: "Enzymatic Synthesis of Hypermodified DNA Polymers for Sequence-Specific Display of Four Different Hydrophobic Groups" Nucleic Acids Res. 2020, 48 (21), 11982-11993. Chakrapani, A. et. al: "Photocaged 5-(Hydroxymethyl)pyrimidine Nucleoside Phosphoramidites for Specific Photoactivatable Epigenetic Labelling of DNA" Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 9081-9085. |
25.1.2021 Nemanja Milisavljevic and Anna Tokarenko defended their PhD theses. 2.12.2020 Pedro Güixens-Gallardo defended his PhD thesis. 10.9.2020 Alessandro Panattoni defended his PhD thesis. |