Aptamer–protein interactions: from regulation to biomolecular detection

C Ji, J Wei, L Zhang, X Hou, J Tan, Q Yuan… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Serving as the basis of cell life, interactions between nucleic acids and proteins play
essential roles in fundamental cellular processes. Aptamers are unique single-stranded …

Molecular elucidation of disease biomarkers at the interface of chemistry and biology

L Zhang, S Wan, Y Jiang, Y Wang, T Fu… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Disease-related biomarkers are objectively measurable molecular signatures of
physiological status that can serve as disease indicators or drug targets in clinical diagnosis …

Investigations on the interface of nucleic acid aptamers and binding targets

S Cai, J Yan, H Xiong, Y Liu, D Peng, Z Liu - Analyst, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Nucleic acid aptamers are single-stranded DNA or RNA of 20–100 nucleotides in length that
have attracted substantial scientific interest due to their ability to specifically bind to target …

[HTML][HTML] Structural biology for the molecular insight between aptamers and target proteins

N Zhang, Z Chen, D Liu, H Jiang, ZK Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Aptamers are promising therapeutic and diagnostic agents for various diseases due to their
high affinity and specificity against target proteins. Structural determination in combination …

Aptamer modules as sensors and detectors

M Famulok, G Mayer - Accounts of chemical research, 2011 - ACS Publications
Aptamers comprise a range of molecular recognition scaffolds that can be engineered to
bind to a legion of different proteins and other targets with excellent specificity and affinity …

Aptamer-based molecular recognition for biosensor development

J Zhou, MR Battig, Y Wang - Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, 2010 - Springer
Nucleic acid aptamers are an emerging class of synthetic ligands and have recently
attracted significant attention in numerous fields. One is in biosensor development. In …

[HTML][HTML] Small-molecule binding aptamers: Selection strategies, characterization, and applications

A Ruscito, MC DeRosa - Frontiers in chemistry, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Aptamers are single-stranded, synthetic oligonucleotides that fold into 3-dimensional
shapes capable of binding non-covalently with high affinity and specificity to a target …

Aptamers as tools for target prioritization and lead identification

P Burgstaller, A Girod, M Blind - Drug discovery today, 2002 - Elsevier
The increasing number of potential drug target candidates has driven the development of
novel technologies designed to identify functionally important targets and enhance the …

Nucleic acid aptamers as high affinity ligands in biotechnology and biosensorics

T Šmuc, IY Ahn, H Ulrich - Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical …, 2013 - Elsevier
Aptamers are small nucleic acid molecules capable of binding to a wide range of target
molecules with high affinity and specificity. They have been developed and widely used not …

Nucleic acid aptamers as tools and drugs: recent developments

M Rimmele - Chembiochem, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Nucleic acid aptamers are molecules that bind to their ligands with high affinity and
specificity. Unlike other functional nucleic acids such as antisense oligonucleotides …