Synthetic chemically modified nucleic acids, which are compatible with DNA/RNA polymerases, have great potential as a genetic material for synthetic biological studies. A comprehensive analysis of the transcription of 4'-thioDNA templates to natural RNA is herein reported. The modifications of DNA with 2'-deoxy-4'-thionucleosides, so-called 4'-thioDNA, were found to act as templates for transcription with RNA polymerases both in vitro and in mammalian cells.
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