Beilstein J. Org. Chem.2018,14, 436–469, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.32
group; oligonucleotideprodrugs; reduction-responsive; stimuli-responsive nucleic acids; thermolytic prodrugs; Introduction
For past decades, oligonucleotide-based therapies have been widely developed using short synthetic oligonucleotides (ONs) and their chemically modified mimics as powerful tools to
1958 [12], a prodrug is an agent that undergoes chemical or enzymatic transformations in vivo to yield the active parent drug. The prodrug approach is used to optimize the physicochemical properties of the drug and to improve its pharmacological and toxicological profile.
Oligonucleotideprodrugs that
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Scheme 1:
Demasking under reducing agents of ON prodrugs modified as phosphotriesters with A) benzyl groups [13] ...