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 …

Chemically modified aptamers for improving binding affinity to the target proteins via enhanced non-covalent bonding

Z Chen, H Luo, A Gubu, S Yu, H Zhang… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Nucleic acid aptamers are ssDNA or ssRNA fragments that specifically recognize targets.
However, the pharmacodynamic properties of natural aptamers consisting of 4 naturally …

Spatial imaging of glycoRNA in single cells with ARPLA

Y Ma, W Guo, Q Mou, X Shao, M Lyu, V Garcia… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Little is known about the biological roles of glycosylated RNAs (glycoRNAs), a recently
discovered class of glycosylated molecules, because of a lack of visualization methods. We …

Ultrasensitive antibody-aptamer plasmonic biosensor for malaria biomarker detection in whole blood

A Minopoli, B Della Ventura, B Lenyk, F Gentile… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Development of plasmonic biosensors combining reliability and ease of use is still a
challenge. Gold nanoparticle arrays made by block copolymer micelle nanolithography …

Chemical modifications for a next generation of nucleic acid aptamers

KY Chan, AB Kinghorn, M Hollenstein… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the past three decades, in vitro systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment
(SELEX) has yielded many aptamers for translational applications in both research and …

Carborane-or metallacarborane-linked nucleotides for redox labeling. orthogonal multipotential coding of all four DNA bases for electrochemical analysis and …

D Kodr, CP Yenice, A Simonova, DP Saftić… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We report a series of 2′-deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates bearing dicarba-nido-
undecaborate ([C2B9H11] 1–),[3, 3′-iron-bis (1, 2-dicarbollide)]−(FESAN,[Fe (C2B9H11) 2] …

Functionally enhanced XNA aptamers discovered by parallelized library screening

A Lozoya-Colinas, Y Yu, JC Chaput - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In vitro evolution strategies have been used for> 30 years to generate nucleic acid aptamers
against therapeutic targets of interest, including disease-associated proteins. However, this …

Elucidating the effect of nanoscale receptor-binding domain organization on SARS-CoV-2 infection and immunity activation with DNA origami

J Zhang, Y Xu, M Chen, Y Huang, T Song… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Multivalent display of SARS-CoV-2 RBDs (receptor-binding domains, prime proteins for viral
infection and as vaccine immunogens) affects infectivity and as immunogens on a virus-like …

New chemistries and enzymes for synthetic genetics

N Freund, MJLJ Fürst, P Holliger - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2022 - Elsevier
Beyond the natural nucleic acids DNA and RNA, nucleic acid chemistry has unlocked a
whole universe of modifications to their canonical chemical structure, which can in various …

An electrochemical aptamer-based biosensor targeting Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein II for malaria diagnosis

Y Lo, YW Cheung, L Wang, M Lee… - Biosensors and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Malaria is an infectious disease caused by parasitic protozoans from the genus
Plasmodium, with the species P. falciparum causing the highest number of deaths …