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Novel Disulfide-Containing Linkages of Pyrimidine Nucleobases to Solid Supports: A Versatile Platform for Oligonucleotide Conjugation

2025· article· en· W4414393465 on OpenAlexafffund
Nicholas G. Horton, Jagandeep S. Saraya, Derek K. O’Flaherty

Bibliographic record

VenueBioconjugate Chemistry · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldChemistry
TopicClick Chemistry and Applications
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Guelph
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaHuman Frontier Science ProgramCanada Foundation for Innovation
KeywordsLinkerOligonucleotideNucleic acidPyrimidineNucleobaseConjugated systemCovalent bond

Abstract

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Conjugation of ligands to oligonucleotides is a prominent strategy to enhance (bio)properties of nucleic acids such as cellular uptake/delivery, bioavailability, detection/tracking, and more. Here, we report a simple, cost-effective, and streamlined methodology for the incorporation of various conjugation handles into DNA and RNA. Pyrimidine nucleosides are linked to the solid support via a disulfide-containing linker covalently attached through the nucleobase, removing the typical sugar point-of-attachment requirement. We showcase a conjugation strategy in which nucleic acid strands can be permanently tagged with a ligand (via an azido group) and reversibly conjugated to another (via the linker containing a disulfide and primary amino group). Freed thiols can undergo further conjugation in certain constructs. Ultimately, our conjugation handles containing various orthogonal functional groups (e.g., azido, amino, and disulfide functional groups) will find applications in biotechnology and chemical biology.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.025
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.295
Teacher spread0.275 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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