Both natural and unnatural modifications in RNA are of interest to biologists and chemists. More than 100 different analogues of the four standard RNA nucleosides have been identified in nature. Unnatural modifications are useful for structure and mechanistic studies of RNA. This Review highlights chemical, enzymatic, and combined (semisynthesis) approaches to generate site specifically modified RNAs. The availability of these methods for site-specific modifications of RNAs of all sizes is important in order to study the relationships between RNA chemical composition, structure, and function.
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