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Myong-Jung Kim's Publications

Enzyme-assisted high throughput sequencing of an expanded genetic alphabet at single base resolution
Bang Wang, Kevin M. Bradley, Myong-Jung Kim, Roberto Laos, Cen Chen, Dietlind L. Gerloff, Luran Manfio, Zunyi Yang & Steven A. Benner
Nat. Commun.15(4057), Nature (2024) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48408-9
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With just four building blocks, low sequence information density, few functional groups, poor control over folding, and difficulties in forming compact folds, natural DNA and RNA have been disappointing platforms from which to evolve receptors, ligands, and catalysts. Accordingly, synthetic biology has created "artificially expanded genetic information systems" (AEGIS) to add nucleotides, functionality, and information density. With the expected improvements seen in AegisBodies and AegisZymes, the task for synthetic biologists shifts to developing for expanded DNA the same analytical tools available to natural DNA. Here we report one of these, an enzyme-assisted sequencing of expanded genetic alphabet (ESEGA) method to sequence six-letter AEGIS DNA. We show how ESEGA analyses this DNA at single base resolution, and applies it to optimized conditions for six-nucleotide PCR, assessing the fidelity of various DNA polymerases, and extending this to AEGIS components with functional groups. This supports the renewed exploitation of expanded DNA alphabets in biotechnology.

Hachimoji DNA and RNA: A genetic system with eight building blocks
Hoshika H, Leal N, Kim MJ, Kim MS, Karalkar NB, Kim HJ, Bates AM, Watkins Jr. NE, SantaLucia HA, Meyer AJ, DasGupta S, Piccirilli JA, Ellington AD, SantaLucia Jr. J, Georgiadis MM, Benner SA
Science (2019) 22 Feb 2019: Vol. 363, Issue 6429, pp. 884-887. DOI: 10.1126/science.aat0971
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We report DNA- and RNA-like systems built from eight nucleotide "letters" (hence the name "hachimoji") that form four orthogonal pairs. These synthetic systems meet the structural requirements needed to support Darwinian evolution, including a polyelectrolyte backbone, predictable thermodynamic stability, and stereoregular building blocks that fit a Schrödinger aperiodic crystal. Measured thermodynamic parameters predict the stability of hachimoji duplexes, allowing hachimoji DNA to increase the information density of natural terran DNA. Three crystal structures show that the synthetic building blocks do not perturb the aperiodic crystal seen in the DNA double helix. Hachimoji DNA was then transcribed to give hachimoji RNA in the form of a functioning fluorescent hachimoji aptamer. These results expand the scope of molecular structures that might support life, including life throughout the cosmos.

"Skinny" and "Fat" DNA: Two New Double Helices
Hoshika S, Singh I, Switzer C, Molt RW Jr, Leal NA, Kim MJ, Kim MS, Kim HJ, Georgiadis MM, Benner SA
J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2018) Sep 19;140(37):11655-11660. doi: 10.1021/jacs.8b05042. Epub 2018 Sep 10
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According to the iconic model, the Watson-Crick double helix exploits nucleobase pairs that are both size complementary (big purines pair with small pyrimidines) and hydrogen bond complementary (hydrogen bond donors pair with hydrogen bond acceptors). Using a synthetic biology strategy, we report here the discovery of two new DNA-like systems that appear to support molecular recognition with the same proficiency as standard Watson-Crick DNA. However, these both violate size complementarity (big pairs with small), retaining hydrogen bond complementarity (donors pair with acceptors) as their only specificity principle. They exclude mismatches as well as standard Watson-Crick DNA excludes mismatches. In crystal structures, these "skinny" and "fat" systems form the expected hydrogen bonds, while conferring novel minor groove properties to the resultant duplex regions of the DNA oligonucleotides. Further, computational tools, previously tested primarily on natural DNA, appear to work well for these two new molecular recognition systems, offering a validation of the power of modern computational biology. These new molecular recognition systems may have application in materials science and synthetic biology, and in developing our understanding of alternative ways that genetic information might be stored and transmitted.

Biophysics of Artificially Expanded Genetic Information Systems. Thermodynamics of DNA Duplexes Containing Matches and Mismatches Involving 2-Amino-3-nitropyridin-6-one (Z) and Imidazo[1,2?a]-1,3,5-triazin-4(8H)one (P)
Xiaoyu Wang, Shuichi Hoshika, Raymond J. Peterson, Myong-Jung Kim, Steven A. Benner, and Jason D. Kahn
ACS Synthetic Biology, American Chemical Society (2017) DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.6b00224
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Synthetic nucleobases presenting non-Watson-Crick arrangements of hydrogen bond donor and acceptor groups can form additional nucleotide pairs that stabilize duplex DNA independent of the standard A:T and G:C pairs. The pair between 2-amino-3-nitropyridin-6-one 2'-deoxyriboside (presenting a {donor-donor-acceptor} hydrogen bonding pattern on the Watson-Crick face of the small component, trivially designated Z) and imidazo[1,2-a]-1,3,5-triazin-4(8H)one 2'-deoxyriboside (presenting an {acceptor-acceptor-donor} hydrogen bonding pattern on the large component, trivially designated P) is one of these extra pairs for which a substantial amount of molecular biology has been developed. Here, we report the results of UV absorbance melting measurements and determine the energetics of binding of DNA strands containing Z and P to give short duplexes containing Z:P pairs as well as various mismatches comprising Z and P. All measurements were done at 1 M NaCl in buffer (10 mM Na cacodylate, 0.5 mM EDTA, pH 7.0). Thermodynamic parameters (ΔH°, ΔS°, and ΔG°₃₇) for oligonucleotide hybridization were extracted. Consistent with the Watson-Crick model that considers both geometric and hydrogen bonding complementarity, the Z:P pair was found to contribute more to duplex stability than any mismatches involving either nonstandard nucleotide. Further, the Z:P pair is more stable than a C:G pair. The Z:G pair was found to be the most stable mismatch, forming either a deprotonated mismatched pair or a wobble base pair analogous to the stable T:G mismatch. The C:P pair is less stable, perhaps analogous to the wobble pair observed for C:O⁶-methyl-G, in which the pyrimidine is displaced into the minor groove. The Z:A and T:P mismatches are much less stable. Parameters for predicting the thermodynamics of oligonucleotides containing Z and P bases are provided. This represents the first case where this has been done for a synthetic genetic system.

Expanded Genetic Alphabets. Managing Nucleotides that Lack Tautomeric, Protonated, or Deprotonated Versions Complementary to Natural Nucleotides
Winiger, C.B., Shaw, R.W., Kim, M.J., Moses, J.D., Matsuura, M.F. and Benner, S.A.
ACS Synthetic Biology, American Chemical Society (2017) 55(51):15816-20, DOI:10.1002/anie.201608001
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2,4-Diaminopyrimidine (trivially K) and imidazo[1,2-a]-1,3,5-triazine-2(8H)-4(3H)-dione (trivially X) form a nucleobase pair with Watson-Crick geometry as part of an artificially expanded genetic information system (AEGIS). Neither K nor X can form a Watson-Crick pair with any natural nucleobase. Further, neither K nor X has an accessible tautomeric form or a protonated/deprotonated state that can form a Watson-Crick pair with any natural nucleobase. In vitro experiments show how DNA polymerase I from E. coli manages replication of DNA templates with one K:X pair, but fails with templates containing two adjacent K:X pairs. In analogous in vivo experiments, E. coli lacking dKTP/dXTP cannot rescue chloramphenicol resistance from a plasmid containing two adjacent K:X pairs. These studies identify bacteria able to serve as selection environments for engineering cells that replicate AEGIS pairs that lack forms that are Watson-Crick complementary to any natural nucleobase.

Assays To Detect the Formation of Triphosphates of Unnatural Nucleotides: Application to Escherichia coli Nucleoside Diphosphate Kinase
Mariko F. Matsuura, Ryan W. Shaw, Jennifer D. Moses, Hyo-Joong Kim, Myong-Jung Kim, Myong-Sang Kim, Shuichi Hoshika, Nilesh Karalkar, and Steven A. Benner
ACS Synthetic Biology, American Chemical Society (2016) 5 (3), pp 234-240 DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.5b00172
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One frontier in synthetic biology seeks to move artificially expanded genetic information systems (AEGIS) into natural living cells and to arrange the metabolism of those cells to allow them to replicate plasmids built from these unnatural genetic systems. In addition to requiring polymerases that replicate AEGIS oligonucleotides, such cells require metabolic pathways that biosynthesize the triphosphates of AEGIS nucleosides, the substrates for those polymerases. Such pathways generally require nucleoside and nucleotide kinases to phosphorylate AEGIS nucleosides and nucleotides on the path to these triphosphates. Thus, constructing such pathways focuses on engineering natural nucleoside and nucleotide kinases, which often do not accept the unnatural AEGIS biosynthetic intermediates. This, in turn, requires assays that allow the enzyme engineer to follow the kinase reaction, assays that are easily confused by ATPase and other spurious activities that might arise through "site-directed damage" of the natural kinases being engineered. This article introduces three assays that can detect the formation of both natural and unnatural deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates, assessing their value as polymerase substrates at the same time as monitoring the progress of kinase engineering. Here, we focus on two complementary AEGIS nucleoside diphosphates, 6-amino-5-nitro-3- (1'-B-D-2'-deoxyribofuranosyl)-2(1H)-pyridone and 2-amino-8-(1'-B-D-2'-deoxyribofuranosyl)-imidazo[1,2-a]-1,3,5-triazin- 4(8H)-one. These assays provide new ways to detect the formation of unnatural deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates in vitro and to confirm their incorporation into DNA. Thus, these assays can be used with other unnatural nucleotides.

Polymerase Interactions with Wobble Mismatches in Synthetic Genetic Systems and Their Evolutionary Implications
Christian B. Winiger, Myong-Jung Kim, Shuichi Hoshika, Ryan W. Shaw, Jennifer D. Moses, Mariko F. Matsuura, Dietlind L. Gerloff, and Steven A. Benner
Biochemistry55(28), ACS 3847-3850 (2016) DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00533
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In addition to completing the Watson-Crick nucleobase matching "concept" (big pairs with small, hydrogen bond donors pair with hydrogen bond acceptors), artificially expanded genetic information systems (AEGIS) also challenge DNA polymerases with a complete set of mismatches, including wobble mismatches. Here, we explore wobble mismatches with AEGIS with DNA polymerase 1 from Escherichia coli. Remarkably, we find that the polymerase tolerates an AEGIS:standard wobble that has the same geometry as the G:T wobble that polymerases have evolved to exclude but excludes a wobble geometry that polymerases have never encountered in natural history. These results suggest certain limits to "structural analogy" and "evolutionary guidance" as tools to help synthetic biologists expand DNA alphabets.

Evolution of functional six-nucleotide DNA
Zhang, L., Yang, Z., Sefah, K., Bradley, K. M., Hoshika, S., Kim, M-J,. Kim, H-J., Zhu., Jimenez, E., Cansiz, S., Teng, I-T., Champanhac, C, McLendon, C., Liu, C., Zhang, W., Gerloff, D. L., Huang, Z., Tan, W., Benner, S. A.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2015) DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b02251
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Axiomatically, the density of information stored in DNA, with just four nucleotides (GACT), is higher than in a binary code, but less than it might be if synthetic biologists succeed in adding independently replicating nucleotides to genetic systems. Such addition could also add additional functional groups, not found in natural DNA but useful for molecular performance. Here, we consider two new nucleotides (Z and P, 6-amino-5- nitro-3-(1'-B-D-2'-deoxyribo-furanosyl)-2(1H)-pyridone and 2-amino-8-(1'-B-D-2'-deoxyribofuranosyl)-imidazo- [1,2-a]-1,3,5-triazin-4(8H)-one). These are designed to pair via strict Watson?Crick geometry. These were added to a laboratory in vitro evolution (LIVE) experiment; the GACTZP library was challenged to deliver molecules that bind selectively to liver cancer cells, but not to untransformed liver cells. Unlike in classical in vitro selection systems, low levels of mutation allow this system to evolve to create binding molecules not necessarily present in the original library. Over a dozen binding species were recovered. The best had Z and/or P in their sequences. Several had multiple, nearby, and adjacent Zs and Ps. Only the weaker binders contained no Z or P at all. This suggests that this system explored much of the sequence space available to this genetic system and that GACTZP libraries are richer reservoirs of functionality than standard libraries.

Transcription, Reverse Transcription, and Analysis of RNA Containing Artificial Genetic Components
Nicole A. Leal, Hyo-Joong Kim, Shuichi Hoshika, Myong-Jung Kim, Matthew A. Carrigan, and Steven A. Benner
ACS Synthetic Biology, American Chemical Society (2015) Apr 17;4(4):407-13. doi: 10.1021/sb500268n
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Expanding the synthetic biology of artificially expanded genetic information systems (AEGIS) requires tools to make and analyze RNA molecules having added nucleotide "letters". We report here the development of T7 RNA polymerase and reverse transcriptase to catalyze transcription and reverse transcription of xNA (DNA or RNA) having two complementary AEGIS nucleobases, 6-amino-5-nitropyridin-2-one (trivially, Z) and 2-aminoimidazo[1,2a]-1,3,5-triazin-4(8H)-one (trivially, P). We also report MALDI mass spectrometry and HPLC-based analyses for oligomeric GACUZP six-letter RNA and the use of ribonuclease (RNase) A and T1 RNase as enzymatic tools for the sequence-specific degradation of GACUZP RNA. We then applied these tools to analyze the GACUZP and GACTZP products of polymerases and reverse transcriptases (respectively) made from DNA and RNA templates. In addition to advancing this 6-letter AEGIS toward the biosynthesis of proteins containing additional amino acids, these experiments provided new insights into the biophysics of DNA.

High-throughput multiplexed xMAP Luminex array panel for detection of twenty two medically important mosquito-borne arboviruses based on innovations in synthetic biology
Lyudmyla G. Glushakova, Andrea Bradley, Kevin M. Bradley, Barry W. Alto, Shuichi Hoshika, Daniel Hutter, Nidhi Sharma, Zunyi Yang, Myong-Jung Kim, Steven A. Benner
J Virol Methods214, Elsevier 60-74 (2015) doi: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2015.01.003
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Mosquito-borne arboviruses are emerging world-wide as important human and animal pathogens. This makes assays for their accurate and rapid identification essential for public health, epidemiological, ecological studies. Over the past decade, many mono- and multiplexed assays targeting arboviruses nucleic acids have been reported. None has become established for the routine identification of multiple viruses in a "single tube" setting. With increasing multiplexing, the detection of viral RNAs is complicated by noise, false positives and negatives. In this study, an assay was developed that avoids these problems by combining two new kinds of nucleic acids emerging from the field of synthetic biology. The first is a "self-avoiding molecular recognition system" (SAMRS), which enables high levels of multiplexing. The second is an "artificially expanded genetic information system" (AEGIS), which enables clean PCR amplification in nested PCR formats. A conversion technology was used to place AEGIS component into amplicon, improving their efficiency of hybridization on Luminex beads. When Luminex "liquid microarrays" are exploited for downstream detection, this combination supports single-tube PCR amplification assays that can identify 22 mosquito-borne RNA viruses from the genera Flavivirus, Alphavirus, Orthobunyavirus. The assay differentiates between closely-related viruses, as dengue, West Nile, Japanese encephalitis, and the California serological group. The performance and the sensitivity of the assay were evaluated with dengue viruses and infected mosquitoes; as few as 6-10 dengue virions can be detected in a single mosquito.

A Crystal Structure of a Functional RNA Molecule Containing an Artificial Nucleobase Pair
Armando R. Hernandez, Yaming Shao, Shuichi Hoshika, Zunyi Yang, Sandip A. Shelke, Julien Herrou, Hyo-Joong Kim, Myong-Jung Kim, Joseph A. Piccirilli, and Steven A. Benner
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.54 9853-9856 (2015) doi: 10.1002/anie.201504731
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As one of its goals, synthetic biology seeks to increase the number of building blocks in nucleic acids. While efforts towards this goal are well advanced for DNA, they have hardly begun for RNA. Herein, we present a crystal structure for an RNA riboswitch where a stem C:G pair has been replaced by a pair between two components of an artificially expanded genetic-information system (AEGIS), Z and P, (6- amino-5-nitro-2(1H)-pyridone and 2-aminoimidazo[ 1,2-a]-1,3,5-triazin-4-(8H)-one). The structure shows that the Z:P pair does not greatly change the conformation of the RNAmolecule nor the details of its interaction with a hypoxanthine ligand. This was confirmed in solution by in-line probing, which also measured a 3.7 nm affinity of the riboswitch for guanine. These data show that the Z:P pair mimics the natural Watson-Crick geometry in RNA in the first example of a crystal structure of an RNA molecule that contains an orthogonal added nucleobase pair.

Labeled nucleoside triphosphates with reversibly terminating aminoalkoxyl groups
Hutter, D; Kim, MJ; Karalkar, N; Leal, NA; Chen, F; Guggenheim, E; Visalakshi, V; Olejnik, J; Gordon, S; Benner, SA
Nuc. Nuc. Nuc. acids29(11), Taylor & Francis Group 879-895 (2010)
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Nucleoside triphosphates having a 3'-ONH(2) blocking group have been prepared with and without fluorescent tags on their nucleobases. DNA polymerases were identified that accepted these, adding a single nucleotide to the 3'-end of a primer in a template-directed extension reaction that then stops. Nitrite chemistry was developed to cleave the 3'-ONH(2) group under mild conditions to allow continued primer extension. Extension-cleavage-extension cycles in solution were demonstrated with untagged nucleotides and mixtures of tagged and untagged nucleotides. Multiple extension-cleavage-extension cycles were demonstrated on an Intelligent Bio-Systems Sequencer, showing the potential of the 3'-ONH(2) blocking group in "next generation sequencing."

Synthesis of pyrophosphates for in vitro selection of catalytic RNA molecules
Kim, HJ; Kim, MJ; Karalkar, N; Hutter, D; Benner, SA
Nuc. Nuc. Nuc. acids27, Taylor & Francis Group 43-56 (2008)

Synthesis of a novel bicyclic nucleoside with a 3,7-anhydrooctofuranosyl skeleton
Kim, MJ; Chun, MW
Aust. J. Chem.60(4) 291-295 (2007)
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We have developed an efficient route for the synthesis of a novel bicyclic nucleoside using a key intermediate 13, which was prepared from 1,2: 5,6-di-O-isopropylidene-alpha-D-glucose. 1,2-Nucleophilic addition of aldehyde 8 with allyltrimethylsilane and intramolecular Williamson reaction were successfully achieved to synthesize an intermediate with a 3,7-anhydrooctofuranosyl skeleton.

Orthogonal activation of the reengineered A(3) adenosine receptor (neoceptor) using tailored nucleoside agonists
Gao, ZG; Duong, HT; Sonina, T; Kim, SK; Van Rompaey, P; Van Calenbergh, S; Mamedova, L; Kim, HO; Kim, MJ; Kim, AY; Liang, BT; Jeong, LS; Jacobson, KA
J. Med. Chem.49(9) 2689-2702 (2006)
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An alternative approach to overcome the inherent lack of specificity of conventional agonist therapy can be the reengineering of the GPCRs and their agonists. A reengineered receptor ( neoceptor) could be selectively activated by a modified agonist, but not by the endogenous agonist. Assisted by rhodopsin-based molecular modeling, we pinpointed mutations of the A(3) adenosine receptor (AR) for selective affinity enhancement following complementary modifications of adenosine. Ribose modifications examined included, at 3' : amino, aminomethyl, azido, guanidino, ureido; and at 5' : uronamido, azidodeoxy. N-6-Variations included 3-iodobenzyl, 5-chloro-2-methyloxybenzyl, and methyl. An N-6-3-iodobenzyl-3'-ureido adenosine derivative 10 activated phospholipase C in COS-7 cells (EC50 = 0.18 mu M) or phospholipase D in chick primary cardiomyocytes, both mediated by a mutant ( H272E), but not the wild-type, A(3)AR. The affinity enhancements for 10 and the corresponding 3'-acetamidomethyl analogue 6 were > 100-fold and > 20-fold, respectively. 10 concentration-dependently protected cardiomyocytes transfected with the neoceptor against hypoxia. Unlike 10, adenosine activated the wild-type A(3)AR (EC50 of 1.0 mu M), but had no effect on the H272E mutant A(3)AR (100 mu M). Compound 10 was inactive at human A(1), A(2A), and A(2B)ARs. The orthogonal pair comprising an engineered receptor and a modified agonist should be useful for elucidating signaling pathways and could be therapeutically applied to diseases following organ-targeted delivery of the neoceptor gene.

Synthesis of 3'-ureidoadenosines and their high binding affinity at the mutant A3 adenosine receptor
Kim, AY; Chung, HO; Kim, MJ; Chun, MW; Lee, KM; Jacobson, KA; Jeong, LS
Nucleic Acids Res. Suppl.49 105-106 (2005)

Synthesis of 3 '-ureidoadenosine analogues and their binding affinity to the A(3) adenosine receptor
Chun, MW; Lee, HW; Kim, AY; Kim, MJ; Kim, HO; Gao, ZG; Jacobson, KA; Jeong, LS
Nuc. Nuc. Nuc. acids24, Taylor & Francis Group 1119-1121 (2005)
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Novel 3'-ureidoadenosine analogues were synthesized from 1,2:5,6-di-O-isopropylidene-D-glucose in order to lead to stronger hydrogen bonding at the A(3) adenosine receptor than the corresponding 3'-aminoadenosine derivatives. However, all synthesized 3'-ureidoadenosine analogues have lost their binding affinities to the all subtypes of adenosine receptors, indicating that bulky 3'-urea moiety led to conformational distortion.

Synthesis of 3 '-deoxy-3 '-C-hydroxym ethyl analogues of tiazofurin and ribavirin
Chun, MW; Kim, MJ; Shin, JH; Jeong, LS
Nuc. Nuc. Nuc. acids24, Taylor & Francis Group 975-977 (2005)

Synthesis of homo-N-nucleoside with 1,2,4-triazole-3-carboxamide
Chun, MW; Kim, JH; Kim, MJ; Kim, BR; Jeong, LS
Nuc. Nuc. Nuc. acids24, Taylor & Francis Group 979-981 (2005)
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On the basis of Potent biological activities of ribavirin and homo-N-nucleosides, a novel homo-N-1,2,4-triazole-3-carboxamide derivative I was synthesized starting from 2,3,5-tri-O-benzoylribofuranosyl- I-acetate as a potential antiviral agent.

Synthesis and biological evaluation of novel isonucleosides with 1,2,4-triazole-3-carboxamide
Kim, MJ; Chung, SY; Chun, MW
Synth. Commun.35(20) 2653-2663 (2005)
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Novel 1,2,4-triazole isonucleosides (1 and 2) were efficiently synthesized starting from D-ribose and D-xylose, respectively. The key steps were condensation of cyclic sulfate 8 with methyl-1,2,4-triazole-3-carboxylate and nucleophilic displacement of the tosylate 15 with methyl-1,2,4-triazole-3-carboxylate, respectively.

Design and synthesis of 3 '-ureidoadenosine-5 '-uronamides: effects of the 3 '-ureido group on binding to the A(3) adenosine receptor
Jeong, LS; Kim, MJ; Kim, HO; Gao, ZG; Kim, SK; Jacobson, KA; Chun, MW
Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett.14(19) 4851-4854 (2004)
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On the basis of high binding affinity at the A(3) adenosine receptor of 3'-aminoadenosine derivatives with hydrogen bonding donor ability, novel 3'-ureidoadenosine analogues were synthesized from 1,2:5,6-di-O-isopropylidene-D-glucose in order to lead to stronger hydrogen bonding than the corresponding 3'-aminoadeno sine derivatives. However, the synthesized 3'-ureidoadenosine analogues were totally devoid of binding affinity, because 3'-urea moiety caused steric and electrostatic repulsions at the binding site of the A(3) adenosine receptor, leading to conformational distortion. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Synthesis and biological evaluation of novel apio nucleosides with thiazole-4-carboxamide and 1,2,4-triazole-3-carboxamide
Kim, MJ; Jeong, LS; Kim, JH; Shin, JH; Chung, SY; Lee, SK; Chun, MW
Nuc. Nuc. Nuc. acids23(4), Taylor & Francis Group 715-724 (2004)
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In view of biological activities of azole nucleosides and apio-dideoxynucleoside, novel apio nucleoside analogues (1 and 2) with thiazole and triazole base moiety were synthesized using 2,3-O-isopropylidene-apio-beta-D-furanose (3), which was prepared from D-mannose.

Synthesis and biological evaluation of thymine nucleosides fused with 3 ',4 '-tetrahydrofuran ring
Kim, MJ; Kim, HO; Kim, HD; Kim, JH; Jeong, LS; Chun, MW
Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett.13(20) 3499-3501 (2003)
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The pyrimidine nucleosides fused with 3',4'-tetrahydrofuran ring were successfully synthesized, starting from 1,2;5,6-di-O-isopropylidene-D-glucose and assayed for antiviral activities against HIV-1, HIV-2, EMCV, Cox. B3 and VSV. Thymine analogue (5) and its corresponding 2'-deoxy analogue (6) exhibited high cytotoxicity instead of giving antiviral activities. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Synthesis of 2-(3 '-azido- and 3 '-amino-3 '-deoxy-beta-D-ribofuranosyl)thiazole-4-carboxamide
Liang, CW; Kim, MJ; Jeong, LS; Chun, MW
Nuc. Nuc. Nuc. acids22(11), Taylor & Francis Group 2039-2048 (2003)
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In view of biological activities of tiazofurin and azido or aminosugar nucleosides, novel azido- and amino-substituted tiazofurin derivatives (I and 2) were efficiently synthesized starting from 1,2;5,6-di-O-isopropylidene-D-glucose.

Synthesis and biological evaluation of pyrimidine nucleosides fused with 3 ',4 '-tetrahydrofuran ring
Chun, MW; Kim, MJ; Kim, HO; Moon, HR; Kim, HD; Kim, JH; Jeong, LS
Nuc. Nuc. Nuc. acids22, Taylor & Francis Group 719-721 (2003)
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Pyrimidine nucleosides fused with 3,4'-tetrahydrofuran ring were synthesized, starting from 1,2;5,6-di-O-isopropylidene-D-glucose and assayed for antiviral activities. Thymine analogue 1 and its corresponding 2'-deoxy analogue 3 exhibited high cytotoxicity instead of giving antiviral activities.

Synthesis of 5-azacytidine nucleosides with rigid sugar moiety as potential antitumor agents
Chun, MW; Kim, MJ; Kim, HO; Kim, HD; Kim, JH; Moon, HR; Jeong, LS
Nuc. Nuc. Nuc. acids22, Taylor & Francis Group 915-917 (2003)
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The bicyclic 3'-O,5'-C-methylene-linked and 2'-O,5'-C-methylene-linked 5-azacytidine derivatives were readily synthesized from 1,2;5,6-di-O-isopropylidene-D-glucose and evaluated against several cancer cell lines.

Synthesis of novel 3 '-deoxy-3 '-C-hydroxymethyl nucleosides with conformationally rigid sugar moiety as potential antiviral agents
Chun, MW; Kim, MJ; Jo, UH; Kim, JH; Kim, HD; Jeong, LS
Nuc. Nuc. Nuc. acids20, Taylor & Francis Group 699-702 (2001)
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Based on the fact that the ring expanded 3'-C-hydroxymethyl analogue of oxetanocin A exhibited potent antiviral activity, two types of conformationally rigid 3'-C-hydroxymethyl derivatives in which 2'-hydroxyl group is linked to the 4'-position or to the 6'-position were synthesized starting from 1,2;5,6-di-O-isopropylidene-D-glucose, respectively.

Synthesis of novel D- and L-3 '-deoxy-3 '-C-hydroxymethyl nucleoside with exocyclic methylene as potential ribonucleotide reductase inhibitor
Chun, MW; Kim, MJ; Jo, UH; Kim, JH; Kim, HD; Jeong, LS
Nuc. Nuc. Nuc. acids20, Taylor & Francis Group 703-706 (2001)
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D- and L-3'-Deoxy-3'-C-hydroxymethyl thymidine substituted with exocyclic methylene at 2'-position were synthesized, starting from D- and L-xylose as potential ribonucleotide reductase inhibitor, respectively, but they were found to be inactive against several tumor cell lines.

Synthesis and antiviral activities of 1,3-oxathiolanyl nucleosides with 5-hydroxymethyl substituent
Chun, MW; Choi, SP; Kim, MJ; Bae, CJ
Nucl. Nucl.18 615-616 (1999)
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Novel 1,3-oxathiolanyl pyrimidine nucleosides with 5-hydroxymethyl substituent were synthesized starting from D-mannose and evaluated for antiviral activities against HIV-1, HSV type 1,2 and HCMV.