Template-directed RNA polymerization and enhanced ribozyme catalysis inside membraneless compartments formed by coacervates

RR Poudyal, RM Guth-Metzler, AJ Veenis… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Membraneless compartments, such as complex coacervates, have been hypothesized as
plausible prebiotic micro-compartments due to their ability to sequester RNA; however, their …

Chemistry of the diazeniumdiolates. 2. Kinetics and mechanism of dissociation to nitric oxide in aqueous solution

KM Davies, DA Wink, JE Saavedra… - Journal of the American …, 2001 - ACS Publications
Diazeniumdiolate ions of structure R2N [N (O) NO]-(1) are of pharmacological interest
because they spontaneously generate the natural bioregulatory species, nitric oxide (NO) …

Hairpin ribozyme cleavage catalyzed by aminoglycoside antibiotics and the polyamine spermine in the absence of metal ions

DJ Earnshaw, MJ Gait - Nucleic acids research, 1998 - academic.oup.com
The hairpin ribozyme is a small catalytic RNA that achieves an active configuration by
docking of its two helical domains in an antiparallel fashion. Both docking and subsequent …

Organic nanoparticles for visual detection of spermidine and spermine in vapors and aqueous phase

S Chopra, A Singh, P Venugopalan… - ACS Sustainable …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The rapidly emerging interest in the evaluation of biogenic amines especially spermidine
and spermine has brought up new demands for the efficacious technical methods. These …

Hydrolytic reactions of nucleoside phosphoramidates: kinetics and mechanisms

T Lonnberg, M Ora, H Lonnberg - Mini-Reviews in Organic …, 2010 - benthamdirect.com
Nucleoside phosphoramidates have recently received considerable interest as pro-drugs of
antiviral analogs of nucleoside monophosphates and as constituents of antisense …

Chiral analogues of peptide nucleic acids: synthesis of 4-aminoprolyl nucleic acids and DNA complementation studies using UV/CD spectroscopy

BP Gangamani, VA Kumar, KN Ganesh - Tetrahedron, 1999 - Elsevier
This paper describes chemical synthesis of prolyl PNAs which are a class of
conformationally constrained chiral PNA analogues. The monomers are derived from …

Spermine conjugated peptide nucleic acids (spPNA): UV and fluorescence studies of PNA–DNA hybrids with improved stability

BP Gangamani, VA Kumar, KN Ganesh - Biochemical and biophysical …, 1997 - Elsevier
Peptide Nucleic Acids (PNAs), the achiral DNA mimics with amide backbone, are emerging
as attractive leads for drug development by antisense approach. Two major limitations of …

Preparation of Tetracationic Metalloporphyrin− Spermine Conjugates

A Jakobs, J Bernadou, B Meunier - The Journal of Organic …, 1997 - ACS Publications
The preparation of tetracationic metalloporphyrin precursors for the attachement to DNA
binding molecules is reported. Based on a D 4 h tetrapyridylporphyrin, such precursors are …

Micellar catalysis of nitric oxide dissociation from diazeniumdiolates

SE Price, D Jappar, P Lorenzo, JE Saavedra… - Langmuir, 2003 - ACS Publications
The effect of surfactant micelles on the acid-catalyzed dissociation of NO from
diazeniumdiolate ions of structure R1R2N [N (O) NO]-has been examined in phosphate …

Separation of tosylated polyamines by high-performance capillary zone electrophoresis

ME Legaz, C Vicente, MM Pedrosa - Journal of Chromatography A, 1998 - Elsevier
The successful separation of tosylated polyamines putrecine (PUT), cadaverine (CAD)
spermidine (SPD) and spermine (SPM) by high-performance capillary zone electrophoresis …