Discovering riboswitches: the past and the future

K Kavita, RR Breaker - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Riboswitches are structured noncoding RNA domains used by many bacteria to monitor the
concentrations of target ligands and regulate gene expression accordingly. In the past 20 …

Methods for improving aptamer binding affinity

H Hasegawa, N Savory, K Abe, K Ikebukuro - Molecules, 2016 - mdpi.com
Aptamers are single stranded oligonucleotides that bind a wide range of biological targets.
Although aptamers can be isolated from pools of random sequence oligonucleotides using …

The diverse structural landscape of quadruplexes

HL Lightfoot, T Hagen, NJ Tatum, J Hall - FEBS letters, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
G‐quadruplexes are secondary structures formed in G‐rich sequences in DNA and RNA.
Considerable research over the past three decades has led to in‐depth insight into these …

Structure and function of multimeric G-quadruplexes

S Kolesnikova, EA Curtis - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
G-quadruplexes are noncanonical nucleic acid structures formed from stacked guanine
tetrads. They are frequently used as building blocks and functional elements in fields such …

[HTML][HTML] Regulation of local GTP availability controls RAC1 activity and cell invasion

A Bianchi-Smiraglia, DW Wolff, DJ Marston… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Physiological changes in GTP levels in live cells have never been considered a regulatory
step of RAC1 activation because intracellular GTP concentration (determined by …

A small molecule that represses translation of G-quadruplex-containing mRNA

Y Katsuda, S Sato, L Asano, Y Morimura… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The G-quadruplexes form highly stable nucleic acid structures, which are implicated in
various biological processes in both DNA and RNA. Although DNA G-quadruplexes have …

Generating experimentally unrelated target molecule-binding highly functionalized nucleic-acid polymers using machine learning

JC Chen, JP Chen, MW Shen, M Wornow… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
In vitro selection queries large combinatorial libraries for sequence-defined polymers with
target binding and reaction catalysis activity. While the total sequence space of these …

PDGFR-β promoter forms a vacancy G-quadruplex that can be filled in by dGMP: solution structure and molecular recognition of guanine metabolites and drugs

KB Wang, J Dickerhoff, G Wu… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Aberrant expression of PDGFR-β is associated with a number of diseases. The G-
quadruplexes (G4s) formed in PDGFR-β gene promoter are transcriptional modulators and …

Inosine substitutions in RNA activate latent G-quadruplexes

T Hagen, A Laski, A Brümmer, A Pruska… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
It is well-accepted that gene expression is heavily influenced by RNA structure. For instance,
stem-loops and G-quadruplexes (rG4s) are dynamic motifs in mRNAs that influence gene …

Multimerization rules for G-quadruplexes

S Kolesnikova, M Hubálek, L Bednárová… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
G-quadruplexes can multimerize under certain conditions, but the sequence requirements of
such structures are not well understood. In this study, we investigated the ability of all …