Synthesis and properties of 2'-deoxy-2',4'-difluoroarabinose-modified nucleic acids.

We report the synthesis, thermal stability, and RNase H substrate activity of 2'-deoxy-2',4'-difluoroarabino-modified nucleic acids. 2'-Deoxy-2',4'-difluoroarabinouridine (2,'4'-diF-araU) was prepared in a stereoselective way in six steps from 2'-deoxy-2'-fluoroarabinouridine (2'-F-araU). NMR analysis and quantum mechanical calculations at the nucleoside level reveal that introduction of 4'-fluorine introduces a strong bias toward the North conformation, despite the presence of the 2'-βF, which generally steers the sugar pucker toward the South/East conformation. Incorporation of the novel monomer into DNA results on a neutral to slightly stabilizing thermal effect on DNA-RNA hybrids. Insertion of 2',4'-diF-araU nucleotides in the DNA strand of a DNA-RNA hybrid decreases the rate of both human and HIV reverse transcriptase-associated RNase H-mediated cleavage of the complement RNA strand compared to that for an all-DNA strand or a DNA strand containing the corresponding 2'-F-araU nucleotide units, consistent with the notion that a 4'-fluorine in 2'-F-araU switches the preferred sugar conformation from DNA-like (South/East) to RNA-like (North).

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