Acridine phosphoramidite is designed to produce an oligonucleotide containing acridine at any position in the molecule. Acridine CPG is used to label the 3'-terminus. Acridine is an effective intercalating agent.
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Coupling: This support should be used in a manner identical to normal protected nucleoside support since it contains the DMT group. |(Acetyl-protected Cytidine should be used to avoid deamination when methanolic sodium hydroxide is used for deprotection.)
Deprotection: Cleavage and deprotection should be carried out using a mild deprotection: 0.4M methanolic sodium hydroxide (methanol:water 4:1) for 17 hours at room temperature. Pipet off support, neutralize with 1.5 volumes of 2M TEAA and desalt.|Note: NaOH is not compatible with dmf protecting groups.
Response: While AMA (Ammonium hydroxide/40% Methylamine 1:1 v/v) is considered compatible with fluorescein, the use of methylamine when deprotecting a Fluorescein-labeled oligo does lead to a small amount of degradation, which is characterized by a the appearance of a late-eluting peak by RP HPLC that shows no visible fluorescein absorbance. With standard deprotection conditions (AMA 10 minutes at 65 C) the amount of degradation is approximately 5%|||
