Shuto Satoshi, Tamura Yutaka, Yamamoto Yuji, Kodama Tetsuya, Hoshika Shuichi, Ichikawa Satoshi, Ueno Yoshihito, Ohtsuka Eiko, Komatsu Yasuo, Matsuda Akira
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan.
Nucleic Acids Symp Ser (Oxf). 2004(48):67-8. doi: 10.1093/nass/48.1.67.
A novel sugar-modified thymidine analogue, 3'-deoxy-4'-C-(2-hydroxyethyl)thymidine (X), was designed and synthesized to show that it can stabilize hairpin structures when it is present in the loop moiety, probably due to the flexibility of the one-carbon-elongated 4'-branched structure.