“…l-RNA (van Boeckel et al, 1987;Ashley, 1992) and l/d-RNA dimers (Bhuta & Zemlicka, 1978) and their biological activities including resistance toward exonucleases have also been described. Also, recent studies with chimeric a-D-2'-deoxyribose/ci-D-2/-deoxyribose (Koga et al, 1991), acyclic/cyclic sugars (Wilk et al, 1990;Augustyns et al, 1991), D-hexose/D-deoxyribose (Augustyns et al, 1992), 2,-0-alkyl-D-ribose/2/-D-deoxyribose (Lesnik et al, 1993), and internucleotide linkage combinations of phosphodiesters with methyl phosphonates (Tidd & Warenius, 1989), phosphorothioate (Stein et al, 1988), formacetal (Matteucci, 1990), sulfide (Kawaietal., 1993), amide (Idziak et al, 1993;Mesmaeker et al, 1994), and other derivatives (for a recent review, see Yogesh and Cook (1993)) indicate beneficial nuclease resistance characteristics. One goal in this study was to incorporate L-2,-deoxyribonucleosides at multiple positions within a D-oligonucleotide chain and to evaluate the hybridization properties of such oligomers toward complementary DNA and RNA.…”