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 …

Aptamer chemistry

P Röthlisberger, M Hollenstein - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Aptamers are single-stranded DNA or RNA molecules capable of tightly binding to specific
targets. These functional nucleic acids are obtained by an in vitro Darwinian evolution …

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 …

SELEX methods on the road to protein targeting with nucleic acid aptamers

P Bayat, R Nosrati, M Alibolandi, H Rafatpanah… - Biochimie, 2018 - Elsevier
Systematic evolution of ligand by exponential enrichment (SELEX) is an efficient method
used to isolate high-affinity single stranded oligonucleotides from a large random sequence …

Functional aptamers and aptazymes in biotechnology, diagnostics, and therapy

M Famulok, JS Hartig, G Mayer - Chemical reviews, 2007 - ACS Publications
Aptamers are single-stranded nucleic acid molecules that possess properties comparable to
those of protein monoclonal antibodies, and thus are clear alternatives to long established …

Nucleic acid aptamers: clinical applications and promising new horizons

X Ni, M Castanares, A Mukherjee… - Current medicinal …, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
Aptamers are a special class of nucleic acid molecules that are beginning to be investigated
for clinical use. These small RNA/DNA molecules can form secondary and tertiary structures …

Development and classification of RNA aptamers for therapeutic purposes: an updated review with emphasis on cancer

M Razlansari, S Jafarinejad, A Rahdar… - Molecular and Cellular …, 2023 - Springer
Today, RNA aptamers are being considered promising theranostic tools against a wide
variety of disorders. RNA aptamers can fold into complex shapes and bind to diverse …

SELEX with modified nucleotides

AD Keefe, ST Cload - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2008 - Elsevier
Aptamers, a promising new class of therapeutics, are single-stranded oligonucleotides
generated via an in vitro selection process that bind to and inhibit the activity of target …

[HTML][HTML] Application and development of aptamer in cancer: from clinical diagnosis to cancer therapy

J Han, L Gao, J Wang, J Wang - Journal of Cancer, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Traditional anticancer therapies can cause serious side effects in clinical treatment due to
their nonspecific of tumor cells. Aptamers, also termed as' chemical antibodies', are short …

Development of better aptamers: structured library approaches, selection methods, and chemical modifications

A Brown, J Brill, R Amini, C Nurmi… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX) has been used to
discover thousands of aptamers since its development in 1990. Aptamers are short single …