Peptide Nucleic Acids (PNA)

[martin LEACH]

Hi Mick,

I keep receiving flyers from a company called Perseptive about pna's

they sound real interesting....although no time to go to their seminars on
this..

I believe Perseptive are in MA....an address for them may be in the biotech
registry (http://www.data-transport.com

Martin

Mick Jones (mjones at rpms.ac.uk) wrote:
: Hi netters

: I was wondering about the commercial availability of reagents for the chemical 
: synthesis of PNAs (peptide or protein nucleic acids).  These analogues 
: (apparently) bind more tightly to DNA strands than a complemantary 
: oligonucleotide.  

: PNAs are nucleic acid analogues in which the phospho-sugar backbone is replaced by 
: a peptide linkage maintaining the correct stereo-chemical base spacing as in 
: natural DNA.

: We are consideing synthesizing our own PNA sequences and would be very grateful if 
: anybody could provide advice, where to buy the reagents and their cost, and how 
: difficult it is to do, etc.  Anything really.

: Thanks in advance.

: Mick Jones


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