Recent progress in non-native nucleic acid modifications

LK McKenzie, R El-Khoury, JD Thorpe… - Chemical Society …, 2021‏ - pubs.rsc.org
While Nature harnesses RNA and DNA to store, read and write genetic information, the
inherent programmability, synthetic accessibility and wide functionality of these nucleic acids …

Modified nucleic acids: replication, evolution, and next-generation therapeutics

K Duffy, S Arangundy-Franklin, P Holliger - Bmc Biology, 2020‏ - Springer
Modified nucleic acids, also called xeno nucleic acids (XNAs), offer a variety of advantages
for biotechnological applications and address some of the limitations of first-generation …

What is XNA?

JC Chaput, P Herdewijn - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
What Is XNA? - Chaput - 2019 - Angewandte Chemie International Edition - Wiley Online Library
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Nucleic acid aptamers: Emerging applications in medical imaging, nanotechnology, neurosciences, and drug delivery

P Röthlisberger, C Gasse, M Hollenstein - International Journal of …, 2017‏ - mdpi.com
Recent progresses in organic chemistry and molecular biology have allowed the emergence
of numerous new applications of nucleic acids that markedly deviate from their natural …

Unknown unknowns: essential genes in quest for function

A Danchin, G Fang - Microbial Biotechnology, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
The experimental design of a minimal synthetic genome revealed the presence of a large
number of genes without ascribed function, in part because the abstract laws of life must be …

Nucleic acid enzymes based on functionalized nucleosides

M Hollenstein - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•Nucleic acid-based enzymes are highly potential biosensing and therapeutic
tools.•Description of the chemical methods designed to improve the properties of these …

Phosphonomethyl oligonucleotides as backbone-modified artificial genetic polymers

C Liu, C Cozens, F Jaziri, J Rozenski… - Journal of the …, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
Although several synthetic or xenobiotic nucleic acids (XNAs) have been shown to be viable
genetic materials in vitro, major hurdles remain for their in vivo applications, particularly …

CRISPR-Cas9 recognition of enzymatically synthesized base-modified nucleic acids

H Yang, E Eremeeva, M Abramov… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
An enzymatic method has been successfully established enabling the generation of partially
base-modified RNA (previously named RZA) constructs, in which all G residues were …

Traceless enzymatic synthesis of monodispersed hypermodified oligodeoxyribonucleotide polymers from RNA templates

M Ondruš, V Sýkorová, M Hocek - Chemical Communications, 2022‏ - pubs.rsc.org
We have developed a new alternative for enzymatic synthesis of single-stranded
hypermodified oligodeoxyribonucleotides displaying four different hydrophobic groups …

Reprint of: non canonical genetic material

E Eremeeva, P Herdewijn - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•Xenobiotic Nucleic Acids (XNAs) are highly potential biotechnological and
therapeutic tool.•XNAs possess enhancing thermal and biological stability and increasing …