A hitchhiker's guide to click-chemistry with nucleic acids

NZ Fantoni, AH El-Sagheer, T Brown - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Click chemistry is an immensely powerful technique for the fast and efficient covalent
conjugation of molecular entities. Its broad scope has positively impacted on multiple …

Synthetic mRNA capping

F Muttach, N Muthmann… - Beilstein journal of …, 2017 - beilstein-journals.org
Eukaryotic mRNA with its 5′-cap is of central importance for the cell. Many studies involving
mRNA require reliable preparation and modification of 5′-capped RNAs. Depending on the …

Microenvironment-sensitive fluorescent nucleotide probes from benzofuran, benzothiophene, and selenophene as substrates for DNA polymerases

P Ghosh, HM Kropp, K Betz, S Ludmann… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
DNA polymerases can process a wide variety of structurally diverse nucleotide substrates,
but the molecular basis by which the analogs are processed is not completely understood …

Digital twins for continuous mRNA production

H Helgers, A Hengelbrock, A Schmidt, J Strube - Processes, 2021 - mdpi.com
The global coronavirus pandemic continues to restrict public life worldwide. An effective
means of limiting the pandemic is vaccination. Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines …

Strategies for covalent labeling of long RNAs

H Depmeier, E Hoffmann, L Bornewasser… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The introduction of chemical modifications into long RNA molecules at specific positions for
visualization, biophysical investigations, diagnostic and therapeutic applications still …

A versatile toolbox for posttranscriptional chemical labeling and imaging of RNA

AA Sawant, AA Tanpure, PP Mukherjee… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Cellular RNA labeling strategies based on bioorthogonal chemical reactions are much less
developed in comparison to glycan, protein and DNA due to its inherent instability and lack …

Capture and sequencing of NAD-capped RNA sequences with NAD captureSeq

ML Winz, H Cahová, G Nübel, J Frindert, K Höfer… - Nature protocols, 2017 - nature.com
Here we describe a protocol for NAD captureSeq that allows for the identification of
nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide (NAD)-capped RNA sequences in total RNA samples …

A covalent approach for site‐specific RNA Labeling in mammalian cells

F Li, J Dong, X Hu, W Gong, J Li, J Shen… - Angewandte …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in RNA research and RNA nanotechnology depend on the ability to manipulate
and probe RNA with high precision through chemical approaches, both in vitro and in …

Metabolic incorporation of azide functionality into cellular RNA

S Nainar, S Beasley, M Fazio, M Kubota, N Dai… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Real‐time tracking of RNA expression can provide insight into the mechanisms used to
generate cellular diversity, as well as help determine the underlying causes of disease. Here …

Identification and in vitro characterization of UDP-GlcNAc-RNA cap-modifying and decapping enzymes

F Weber, NA Motzkus, L Brandl, M Möhler… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In recent years, several noncanonical RNA caps derived from cofactors and metabolites
have been identified. Purine-containing RNA caps have been extensively studied, with …