DNA synthesis technologies to close the gene writing gap

A Hoose, R Vellacott, M Storch, PS Freemont… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Synthetic DNA is of increasing demand across many sectors of research and commercial
activities. Engineering biology, therapy, data storage and nanotechnology are set for rapid …

Chemistries for DNA nanotechnology

M Madsen, KV Gothelf - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
The predictable nature of DNA interactions enables the programmable assembly of highly
advanced 2D and 3D DNA structures of nanoscale dimensions. The access to ever larger …

Genetic alphabet expansion technology by creating unnatural base pairs

M Kimoto, I Hirao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent advancements in the creation of artificial extra base pairs (unnatural base pairs,
UBPs) are opening the door to a new research area, xenobiology, and genetic alphabet …

Chemical modification of aptamers for increased binding affinity in diagnostic applications: Current status and future prospects

JP Elskens, JM Elskens, A Madder - International journal of molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Aptamers are short single stranded DNA or RNA oligonucleotides that can recognize
analytes with extraordinary target selectivity and affinity. Despite their promising properties …

From DNA nanotechnology to material systems engineering

Y Hu, CM Niemeyer - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In the past 35 years, DNA nanotechnology has grown to a highly innovative and vibrant field
of research at the interface of chemistry, materials science, biotechnology, and …

Modified nucleic acids: Expanding the capabilities of functional oligonucleotides

S Ochoa, VT Milam - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
In the last three decades, oligonucleotides have been extensively investigated as probes,
molecular ligands and even catalysts within therapeutic and diagnostic applications. The …

Geared toward applications: A perspective on functional sequence-controlled polymers

C Yang, KB Wu, Y Deng, J Yuan, J Niu - ACS macro letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Sequence-controlled polymers are an emerging class of synthetic polymers with a regulated
sequence of monomers. In the past decade, tremendous progress has been made in the …

Simple methods and rational design for enhancing aptamer sensitivity and specificity

P Kalra, A Dhiman, WC Cho, JG Bruno… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Aptamers are structured nucleic acid molecules that can bind to their targets with high affinity
and specificity. However, conventional SELEX (Systematic Evolution of Ligands by …

The structural diversity of artificial genetic polymers

I Anosova, EA Kowal, MR Dunn, JC Chaput… - Nucleic Acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Synthetic genetics is a subdiscipline of synthetic biology that aims to develop artificial
genetic polymers (also referred to as xeno-nucleic acids or XNAs) that can replicate in vitro …

DNA polymerases divide the labor of genome replication

SA Lujan, JS Williams, TA Kunkel - Trends in cell biology, 2016 - cell.com
DNA polymerases synthesize DNA in only one direction, but large genomes require RNA
priming and bidirectional replication from internal origins. We review here the physical …