[HTML][HTML] Chemical approaches to discover the full potential of peptide nucleic acids in biomedical applications

N Brodyagin, M Katkevics, V Kotikam… - Beilstein journal of …, 2021 - beilstein-journals.org
Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) is arguably one of the most successful DNA mimics, despite a
most dramatic departure from the native structure of DNA. The present review summarizes …

Peptide nucleic acid conjugates and their antimicrobial applications—a mini-review

U Tsylents, I Siekierska, J Trylska - European Biophysics Journal, 2023 - Springer
Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) is a nucleic acid mimic with high specificity and binding affinity to
natural DNA or RNA, as well as resistance to enzymatic degradation. PNA sequences can …

Disulfide bridging strategies in viral and nonviral platforms for nucleic acid delivery

K Dutta, R Das, J Medeiros, S Thayumanavan - Biochemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
Self-assembled nanostructures that are sensitive to environmental stimuli are promising
nanomaterials for drug delivery. In this class, disulfide-containing redox-sensitive strategies …

Stimuli-responsive oligonucleotides in prodrug-based approaches for gene silencing

F Debart, C Dupouy, JJ Vasseur - Beilstein Journal of Organic …, 2018 - beilstein-journals.org
Oligonucleotides (ONs) have been envisaged for therapeutic applications for more than
thirty years. However, their broad use requires overcoming several hurdles such as …

Disulfide bridge as a linker in nucleic acids' bioconjugation. Part II: A summary of practical applications

AR Stasińska, P Putaj, MK Chmielewski - Bioorganic Chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Disulfide conjugation invariably remains a key tool in research on nucleic acids. This
versatile and cost-effective method plays a crucial role in structural studies of DNA and RNA …

Recent advances in chemical modification of peptide nucleic acids

E Rozners - Journal of nucleic acids, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) has become an extremely powerful tool in chemistry and biology.
Although PNA recognizes single‐stranded nucleic acids with exceptionally high affinity and …

Clinical potential of oligonucleotide-based therapeutics in the respiratory system

SA Moschos, L Usher, MA Lindsay - Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2017 - Elsevier
The discovery of an ever-expanding plethora of coding and non-coding RNAs with nodal
and causal roles in the regulation of lung physiology and disease is reinvigorating interest in …

miRNA therapeutics: delivery and biological activity of peptide nucleic acids targeting miRNAs

E Fabbri, E Brognara, M Borgatti, I Lampronti… - …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) are DNA/RNA mimics extensively used for pharmacological
regulation of gene expression in a variety of cellular and molecular systems, and they have …

In situ synthesis of peptide nucleic acids in porous silicon for drug delivery and biosensing

KR Beavers, JW Mares, CM Swartz, Y Zhao… - Bioconjugate …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Peptide nucleic acids (PNA) are a unique class of synthetic molecules that have a peptide
backbone and can hybridize with nucleic acids. Here, a versatile method has been …

A peptide nucleic acid–aminosugar conjugate targeting transactivation response element of HIV-1 RNA genome shows a high bioavailability in human cells and …

I Das, J Désiré, D Manvar, I Baussanne… - Journal of medicinal …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The 6-aminoglucosamine ring of the aminoglycoside antibiotic neomycin B (ring II) was
conjugated to a 16-mer peptide nucleic acid (PNA) targeting HIV-1 TAR RNA. For this …