Recent advances in improving gene-editing specificity through CRISPR–Cas9 nuclease engineering

X Huang, D Yang, J Zhang, J Xu, YE Chen - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
CRISPR–Cas9 is the state-of-the-art programmable genome-editing tool widely used in
many areas. For safe therapeutic applications in clinical medicine, its off-target effect must …

Anti-CRISPR with non-protein substances

M Cao, B Li, X Zhang - Trends in Biotechnology, 2024 - cell.com
Therapeutics based on clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)
have gained significant attention as a promising synthetic biology technique, but there are …

A PAM-free CRISPR/Cas12a ultra-specific activation mode based on toehold-mediated strand displacement and branch migration

Y Wu, W Luo, Z Weng, Y Guo, H Yu… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) technology has
achieved great breakthroughs in terms of convenience and sensitivity; it is becoming the …

PNA-pdx: versatile peptide nucleic acid-based detection of nucleic acids and SNPs

W Jiang, R Aman, Z Ali, GS Rao… - Analytical Chemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
Monitoring diseases caused by pathogens or by mutations in DNA sequences requires
accurate, rapid, and sensitive tools to detect specific nucleic acid sequences. Here, we …

G-quadruplex-based CRISPR photoswitch for spatiotemporal control of genomic modulation

H Deng, H Xu, Y Wang, R Jia, X Ma… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) technology holds
tremendous promise for gene regulation and editing. However, precise control of CRISPR …

CRISPR/Cas9 landscape: Current state and future perspectives

M Tyumentseva, A Tyumentsev, V Akimkin - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)/Cas9 is a unique
genome editing tool that can be easily used in a wide range of applications, including …

Connecting dots between nucleotide biosynthesis and DNA lesion repair/bypass in cancer

JC Lin, A Oludare, H Jung - Bioscience Reports, 2024 - portlandpress.com
Purine and pyrimidine nucleotides are crucial building blocks for the survival of cells, and
there are layers of pathways to make sure a stable supply of them including de novo …

Peptide Nucleic Acid-Mediated Regulation of CRISPR-Cas9 Specificity

KEW Carufe, NG Economos, PM Glazer - nucleic acid therapeutics, 2024 - liebertpub.com
Although CRISPR-Cas9 gene therapies have proven to be a powerful tool across many
applications, improvements are necessary to increase the specificity of this technology …

Impact of charges on the hybridization kinetics and thermal stability of PNA duplexes

M López-Tena, N Winssinger - Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) is prominent artificial nucleic acid mimetic and modifications at
the-position of the peptidic backbone are known to further enhance the desirable …

Peptide nucleic acids: Recent advancements and future opportunities in biomedical applications

A Sannigrahi, N De, D Bhunia, J Bhadra - Bioorganic Chemistry, 2025 - Elsevier
Peptide nucleic acids (PNA), synthetic molecules comprising a peptide-like backbone and
natural and unnatural nucleobases, have garnered significant attention for their potential …