Metal Complexes in Target‐Specific Anticancer Therapy: Recent Trends and Challenges

G Shumi, T Desalegn, TB Demissie… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer is characterized by abnormal cell differentiation in or on the part of the body. The
most commonly used chemotherapeutic drugs are developed to target rapidly dividing cells …

[HTML][HTML] Perspectives on conformationally constrained peptide nucleic acid (PNA): insights into the structural design, properties and applications

C Suparpprom, T Vilaivan - RSC Chemical Biology, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Peptide nucleic acid or PNA is a synthetic DNA mimic that contains a sequence of
nucleobases attached to a peptide-like backbone derived from N-2-aminoethylglycine. The …

Strategies for the synthesis of fluorinated nucleosides, nucleotides and oligonucleotides

H Shet, R Sahu, YS Sanghvi, AR Kapdi - The Chemical Record, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fluorinated nucleosides and oligonucleotides are of specific interest as probes for studying
nucleic acids interaction, structures, biological transformations, and its biomedical …

Therapeutic and diagnostic applications of antisense peptide nucleic acids

V MacLelland, M Kravitz, A Gupta - Molecular Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2023 - cell.com
Peptide nucleic acids (PNA) are synthetic nucleic acid analogues with a neutral N-(2-
aminoethyl) glycine backbone. PNA possess unique physicochemical characteristics such …

Variation of tetrahydrofurans in thyclotides enhances oligonucleotide binding and cellular uptake of peptide nucleic acids

H Zheng, V Clausse, H Amarasekara, SJ Mazur… - JACS Au, 2023 - ACS Publications
Selective incorporation of conformational constraints into thyclotides can be used to
modulate their binding to complementary oligonucleotides, increase polarity, and optimize …

Peptide nucleic acid-assisted generation of targeted double-stranded DNA breaks with T7 endonuclease I

R Aman, MM Syed, A Saleh, F Melliti… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Gene-editing technologies have revolutionized biotechnology, but current gene editors
suffer from several limitations. Here, we harnessed the power of gamma-modified peptide …

The Design of a Participatory Peptide Nucleic Acid Duplex Crosslinker to Enhance the Stiffness of Self‐Assembled Peptide Gels

S Sarkar, CF Anderson, JP Schneider - Angewandte Chemie, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) are employed in the design of a participatory duplex
PNA‐peptide crosslinking agent. Biophysical and mechanical studies show that crosslinkers …

Triplex-Forming Peptide Nucleic Acid Controls Dynamic Conformations of RNA Bulges

CA Ryan, MM Rahman, V Kumar… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
RNA folding is driven by the formation of double-helical segments interspaced by loops of
unpaired nucleotides. Among the latter, bulges formed by one or several unpaired …

[HTML][HTML] LNA blockers for improved amplification selectivity

J Prout, M Tian, A Palladino, J Wright, JF Thompson - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
LNA-containing oligonucleotides bind DNA more tightly than standard DNA, so they can
interact with targeted sequences and affect multiple processes. When a desired DNA is …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …