Oligonucleotides Containing 1‑Aminomethyl or 1‑Mercaptomethyl2-deoxy‑D‑ribofuranoses: Synthesis, Purification, Characterization, and Conjugation with Fluorophores and Lipids

Financial support of this work by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (MICINN, Project CTQ2014-55015-P) and Principado de Asturias (Project IDI/2018/000181) are gratefully acknowledged. The authors acknowledge the financial support provided by CIBER-BBN an initiative funded by the VI National R+D+I Plan 2008−2011, Iniciativa Ingenio 2010, Consolider Program and the Instituto de Salud Carlos III with assistance from the European Regional Development and ICTS NANBIOSIS (oligonucleotide synthesis platform U29). The RE group is supported in part by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (CTQ2017-84415-R) and Generalitat de Catalunya (2017SGR114). V. M.-N. thanks FICYT (Asturias) for a predoctoral Severo Ochoa fellowship.