Therapeutic DNAzymes: from structure design to clinical applications

J Yan, M Ran, X Shen, H Zhang - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Therapeutic DNAzymes have unceasingly intrigued the scientific community owing to their
prosperous gene regulation capability. The efficacy of DNAzymes against many types of …

DNAzymes: expanding the potential of nucleic acid therapeutics

LM Larcher, IL Pitout, NP Keegan, RN Veedu… - nucleic acid …, 2023 - liebertpub.com
Nucleic acids drugs have been proven in the clinic as a powerful modality to treat inherited
and acquired diseases. However, key challenges including drug stability, renal clearance …

Regulatory mechanisms of long noncoding RNAs in vertebrate central nervous system development and function

JL Knauss, T Sun - Neuroscience, 2013 - Elsevier
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged as an important class of molecules that
regulate gene expression at epigenetic, transcriptional, and post-transcriptional levels …

Recent advances in DNAzyme-based gene silencing

H Fan, X Zhang, Y Lu - Science China Chemistry, 2017 - Springer
DNAzymes, generated through in vitro selection processes, are single-stranded DNA
catalysts that can catalyze a wide variety of reactions, such as RNA or DNA cleavage and …

Zebrafish: a multifaceted tool for chemical biologists

S Basu, C Sachidanandan - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
In 1868, Friedrich Miescher completed his medical training and joined the physiological
chemistry laboratory of Felix Hoppe-Seyler to study the chemical composition of biological …

LncRNAs regulating stemness in aging

A Sousa‐Franco, K Rebelo, ST da Rocha… - Aging …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
One of the most outstanding observations from next‐generation sequencing approaches
was that only 1.5% of our genes code for proteins. The biggest part is transcribed but give …

Conceptual approaches for lncRNA drug discovery and future strategies

D Bhartiya, S Kapoor, S Jalali, S Sati… - Expert opinion on …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a recently discovered class of non-
coding functional RNA which has attracted immense research interest. The growing corpus …

HDL and microRNA therapeutics in cardiovascular disease

DL Michell, KC Vickers - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract microRNAs (miRNA) are small non-coding RNAs (sRNA) that post-transcriptionally
regulate gene (mRNA) expression and are implicated in many biological processes and …

Targeted and direct intracellular delivery of native DNAzymes enables highly specific gene silencing

X Li, F Yang, W Zhou, R Yuan, Y Xiang - Chemical Science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
DNAzymes exhibit high potential as gene silencing agents for therapeutic applications. Such
purposes, however, are significantly challenged by the targeted and successful delivery of …

Zebrafish: A premier vertebrate model for biomedical research in indian scenario

S Sarasamma, MM Varikkodan, ST Liang, YC Lin… - Zebrafish, 2017 - liebertpub.com
The zebrafish (Danio rerio) is a versatile model organism that has been used in biomedical
research for several decades to study a wide range of biological phenomena. There are …