Multiple azobenzene moieties were tethered to DNA on D-threoninol linker, and formation and dissociation of DNA duplex could be reversibly photo-regulated either by irradiating UV or visible light. With this photo-responsive DNA, RNase H reaction was also successfully photo-regulated.
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