Aptamer-based detection of circulating targets for precision medicine

L Wu, Y Wang, X Xu, Y Liu, B Lin, M Zhang… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The past decade has witnessed ongoing progress in precision medicine to improve human
health. As an emerging diagnostic technique, liquid biopsy can provide real-time …

Aptamers as targeted therapeutics: current potential and challenges

J Zhou, J Rossi - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2017 - nature.com
Nucleic acid aptamers, often termed'chemical antibodies', are functionally comparable to
traditional antibodies, but offer several advantages, including their relatively small physical …

Analysis of aptamer discovery and technology

MR Dunn, RM Jimenez, JC Chaput - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2017 - nature.com
Aptamers are nucleic acid molecules that mimic antibodies by folding into complex 3D
shapes that bind to specific targets. Although some aptamers exist naturally as the ligand …

Replacing antibodies with aptamers in lateral flow immunoassay

A Chen, S Yang - Biosensors and bioelectronics, 2015 - Elsevier
Aptamers have been identified against various targets as a type of chemical or nucleic acid
ligand by systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX) with high …

Oligonucleotide aptamers: new tools for targeted cancer therapy

H Sun, X Zhu, PY Lu, RR Rosato, W Tan… - Molecular Therapy-Nucleic …, 2014 - cell.com
Aptamers are a class of small nucleic acid ligands that are composed of RNA or single-
stranded DNA oligonucleotides and have high specificity and affinity for their targets. Similar …

Aptamers as therapeutics

AD Keefe, S Pai, A Ellington - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2010 - nature.com
Nucleic acid aptamers can be selected from pools of random-sequence oligonucleotides to
bind a wide range of biomedically relevant proteins with affinities and specificities that are …

Nucleic acid ligands with protein-like side chains: modified aptamers and their use as diagnostic and therapeutic agents

JC Rohloff, AD Gelinas, TC Jarvis, UA Ochsner… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2014 - cell.com
Limited chemical diversity of nucleic acid libraries has long been suspected to be a major
constraining factor in the overall success of SELEX (Systematic Evolution of Ligands by …

Sequence-and stereo-defined macromolecules: properties and emerging functionalities

R Szweda - Progress in Polymer Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Natural macromolecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids, display various complex
functionalities in biological systems. These functionalities depend on the macromolecular …

A highlight of recent advances in aptamer technology and its application

H Sun, Y Zu - Molecules, 2015 - mdpi.com
Aptamers and SELEX (systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment)
technology have gained increasing attention over the past 25 years. Despite their functional …

Challenges and opportunities for small molecule aptamer development

M McKeague, MC DeRosa - Journal of nucleic acids, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Aptamers are single‐stranded oligonucleotides that bind to targets with high affinity and
selectivity. Their use as molecular recognition elements has emerged as a viable approach …