Targeting RNA structures with small molecules

JL Childs-Disney, X Yang, QMR Gibaut… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
RNA adopts 3D structures that confer varied functional roles in human biology and
dysfunction in disease. Approaches to therapeutically target RNA structures with small …

RNA drugs and RNA targets for small molecules: principles, progress, and challenges

AM Yu, YH Choi, MJ Tu, RM TOUYZ - Pharmacological reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
RNA-based therapies, including RNA molecules as drugs and RNA-targeted small
molecules, offer unique opportunities to expand the range of therapeutic targets. Various …

[HTML][HTML] Principles for targeting RNA with drug-like small molecules

KD Warner, CE Hajdin, KM Weeks - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2018 - nature.com
RNA molecules are essential for cellular information transfer and gene regulation, and
RNAs have been implicated in many human diseases. Messenger and non-coding RNAs …

Targeting RNA with small molecules: from fundamental principles towards the clinic

JP Falese, A Donlic, AE Hargrove - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent advances in our understanding of RNA biology have uncovered crucial roles for
RNA in multiple disease states, ranging from viral and bacterial infections to cancer and …

DNA-encoded library screening to inform design of a ribonuclease targeting chimera (RiboTAC)

SM Meyer, T Tanaka, PRA Zanon… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ribonuclease targeting chimeras (RiboTACs) induce degradation of an RNA target by
facilitating an interaction between an RNA and a ribonuclease (RNase). We describe the …

The emerging role of RNA as a therapeutic target for small molecules

CM Connelly, MH Moon, JS Schneekloth - Cell chemical biology, 2016 - cell.com
Recent advances in understanding different RNAs and unique features of their biology have
revealed a wealth of information. However, approaches to identify small molecules that …

Selective Small-Molecule Targeting of a Triple Helix Encoded by the Long Noncoding RNA, MALAT1

FA Abulwerdi, W Xu, AA Ageeli… - ACS chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 (Malat1/MALAT1, mouse/human),
a highly conserved long noncoding (lnc) RNA, has been linked with several physiological …

Machine learning informs RNA‐binding chemical space

K Yazdani, D Jordan, M Yang… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Small molecule targeting of RNA has emerged as a new frontier in medicinal chemistry, but
compared to the protein targeting literature our understanding of chemical matter that binds …

A specific domain within the 3′ untranslated region of Usutu virus confers resistance to the exonuclease ISG20

J Zoladek, P El Kazzi, V Caval, V Vivet-Boudou… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Usutu virus (USUV) and West Nile virus (WNV) are two closely related emerging mosquito-
borne flaviviruses. Their natural hosts are wild birds, but they can also cause severe …

Small molecules targeting viral RNA

T Hermann - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Highly conserved noncoding RNA (ncRNA) elements in viral genomes and transcripts offer
new opportunities to expand the repertoire of drug targets for the development of …