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Photo-editable macromolecular information.


ABSTRACT: Light-induced alteration of macromolecular information plays a central role in biology and is known to influence health, aging and Darwinian evolution. Here, we report that light can also trigger sequence variations in abiotic information-containing polymers. Sequence-coded poly(phosphodiester)s were synthesized using four phosphoramidite monomers containing either photo-sensitive or photo-inert substituents. These monomers allow different sequence manipulations. For instance, using two light-cleavable monomers containing o-nitrobenzyl ether and o-nitroveratryl ether motifs, photo-erasable digital polymers were prepared. These polymers can be decoded by tandem mass spectrometry but become unreadable after UVA exposure. The opposite behavior, i.e. photo-revealable sequences, was obtained with polymers made of two isobaric monomers containing light-cleavable o-nitrobenzyl ether and light-inert p-nitrobenzyl ether substituents. Furthermore, when the latter two monomers were used in conjunction with a third monomer bearing a light-inert OH group, site-directed photo-mutations were induced in synthetic polymers. This was used herein to change the meaning of binary sequences.

SUBMITTER: Konig NF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6726599 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Photo-editable macromolecular information.

König Niklas Felix NF   Al Ouahabi Abdelaziz A   Oswald Laurence L   Szweda Roza R   Charles Laurence L   Lutz Jean-François JF  

Nature communications 20190904 1


Light-induced alteration of macromolecular information plays a central role in biology and is known to influence health, aging and Darwinian evolution. Here, we report that light can also trigger sequence variations in abiotic information-containing polymers. Sequence-coded poly(phosphodiester)s were synthesized using four phosphoramidite monomers containing either photo-sensitive or photo-inert substituents. These monomers allow different sequence manipulations. For instance, using two light-cl  ...[more]

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