Research Article

Structural Determinants of Photoreactivity of Triplex Forming Oligonucleotides Conjugated to Psoralens

Table 1

Binding and photoreactive efficiencies for TFOs conjugated to HMT.

TFO 𝐾 𝑑 Photoefficiency
Nondenaturing gel (nM)Denaturing gel (nM) 𝑘 1 (J/cm2)-1 𝑘 2 (J/cm2)-1

TFO DNA-C263 ± 57.08 ± 2.619 ± 0.50.55 ± 0.04
TFO RNA-C275 ± 1800
TFO RNA-C636 ± 410.96 ± 2.624 ± 41.6 ± 0.05