A hitchhiker's guide to click-chemistry with nucleic acids

NZ Fantoni, AH El-Sagheer, T Brown - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Click chemistry is an immensely powerful technique for the fast and efficient covalent
conjugation of molecular entities. Its broad scope has positively impacted on multiple …

Cu-catalyzed azide− alkyne cycloaddition

M Meldal, CW Tornøe - Chemical reviews, 2008 - ACS Publications
The Huisgen 1, 3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction of organic azides and alkynes1, 2 has
gained considerable attention in recent years due to the introduction in 2001 of Cu (1) …

Click chemistry with DNA

AH El-Sagheer, T Brown - Chemical Society Reviews, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
The advent of click chemistry has led to an influx of new ideas in the nucleic acids field. The
copper catalysed alkyne–azide cycloaddition (CuAAC) reaction is the method of choice for …

Reliable and efficient procedures for the conjugation of biomolecules through Huisgen azide–alkyne cycloadditions

E Lallana, R Riguera… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The CuI‐catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) has been established as a powerful
coupling technology for the conjugation of proteins, nucleic acids, and polysaccharides …

Click nucleic acid ligation: applications in biology and nanotechnology

AH El-Sagheer, T Brown - Accounts of chemical research, 2012 - ACS Publications
Biochemical strategies that use a combination of synthetic oligonucleotides, thermostable
DNA polymerases, and DNA ligases can produce large DNA constructs up to 1 megabase in …

Polymer “clicking” by CuAAC reactions

M Meldal - Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The CuAAC “click” reaction has developed as one of the most useful and widely employed
reactions in ligation within polymer chemistry. This is due to the unique properties of the Cu …

Biocompatible artificial DNA linker that is read through by DNA polymerases and is functional in Escherichia coli

AH El-Sagheer, AP Sanzone, R Gao… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
A triazole mimic of a DNA phosphodiester linkage has been produced by templated
chemical ligation of oligonucleotides functionalized with 5′-azide and 3′-alkyne. The …

New strategy for the synthesis of chemically modified RNA constructs exemplified by hairpin and hammerhead ribozymes

AH El-Sagheer, T Brown - Proceedings of the National …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
The CuAAC reaction (click chemistry) has been used in conjunction with solid-phase
synthesis to produce catalytically active hairpin ribozymes around 100 nucleotides in length …

Fast copper-free click DNA ligation by the ring-strain promoted alkyne-azide cycloaddition reaction

M Shelbourne, X Chen, T Brown… - Chemical …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Templated DNA strand ligation by the ring-strain promoted alkyne–azide [3+ 2] cycloaddition
reaction is very fast; with dibenzocyclooctyne, the reaction is essentially complete in 1 min. It …

Synthesis and polymerase chain reaction amplification of DNA strands containing an unnatural triazole linkage

AH El-Sagheer, T Brown - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
DNA strands containing an unnatural T-triazole-T linkage have been synthesized by click
DNA ligation between oligonucleotides with 3′-AZT and 5′-propargylamido dT and …