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ABSTRACT: Cap binding proteins, which recognize the cap structure present at 5' termini of RNA polymerase II transcripts, have been routinely isolated and purified using affinity resins with mononucleotide cap analogs attached. Here we present a new methodology in which dinucleotide cap analog, m7GpppG, has been linked to the EAH-Sepharose. The method is based on derivatization of 2',3'-cis diol of the second nucleotide within the cap structure, with levulinic acid, and subsequent coupling of resulted acetal through its carboxylic group with aminohexyl-agarose.
Nucleosides Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids 02/2005; 24(5-7):503-6. · 0.90 Impact Factor
