Cancer nanotechnology: the impact of passive and active targeting in the era of modern cancer biology

N Bertrand, J Wu, X Xu, N Kamaly… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2014 - Elsevier
Cancer nanotherapeutics are progressing at a steady rate; research and development in the
field has experienced an exponential growth since early 2000's. The path to the …

SELEX: Critical factors and optimization strategies for successful aptamer selection

M Kohlberger, G Gadermaier - Biotechnology and applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Within the last decade, the application range of aptamers in biochemistry and medicine has
expanded rapidly. More than just a replacement for antibodies, these intrinsically structured …

Deciphering eukaryotic gene-regulatory logic with 100 million random promoters

CG de Boer, ED Vaishnav, R Sadeh, EL Abeyta… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
How transcription factors (TFs) interpret cis-regulatory DNA sequence to control gene
expression remains unclear, largely because past studies using native and engineered …

[HTML][HTML] DNA-binding specificities of human transcription factors

A Jolma, J Yan, T Whitington, J Toivonen, KR Nitta… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Although the proteins that read the gene regulatory code, transcription factors (TFs), have
been largely identified, it is not well known which sequences TFs can recognize. We have …

Systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment: RNA ligands to bacteriophage T4 DNA polymerase

C Tuerk, L Gold - science, 1990 - science.org
High-affinity nucleic acid ligands for a protein were isolated by a procedure that depends on
alternate cycles of ligand selection from pools of variant sequences and amplification of the …

On the immortality of television sets:“function” in the human genome according to the evolution-free gospel of ENCODE

D Graur, Y Zheng, N Price, RBR Azevedo… - Genome biology and …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
A recent slew of ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Consortium publications,
specifically the article signed by all Consortium members, put forward the idea that more …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide map of nucleosome acetylation and methylation in yeast

DK Pokholok, CT Harbison, S Levine, M Cole… - Cell, 2005 - cell.com
Eukaryotic genomes are packaged into nucleosomes whose position and chemical
modification state can profoundly influence regulation of gene expression. We profiled …

The GCN4 basic region leucine zipper binds DNA as a dimer of uninterrupted α helices: crystal structure of the protein-DNA complex

TE Ellenberger, CJ Brandl, K Struhl, SC Harrison - Cell, 1992 - cell.com
The yeast transcriptional activator GCN4 is 1 of over 30 identified eukaryotic proteins
containing the basic region leucine zipper (bZIP) DNA-binding motif. We have determined …

Human Smad3 and Smad4 are sequence-specific transcription activators

L Zawel, J Le Dai, P Buckhaults, S Zhou, KW Kinzler… - Molecular cell, 1998 - cell.com
Mounting evidence indicates that Smad proteins are required for TGFβ signaling, but the
way (s) in which Smad proteins propagate this signal is unclear. We found that two human …

Compact, universal DNA microarrays to comprehensively determine transcription-factor binding site specificities

MF Berger, AA Philippakis, AM Qureshi, FS He… - Nature …, 2006 - nature.com
Transcription factors (TFs) interact with specific DNA regulatory sequences to control gene
expression throughout myriad cellular processes. However, the DNA binding specificities of …