Antisense technology: A review

ST Crooke, XH Liang, BF Baker, RM Crooke - Journal of Biological …, 2021 - ASBMB
Antisense technology is beginning to deliver on the broad promise of the technology. Ten
RNA-targeted drugs including eight single-strand antisense drugs (ASOs) and two double …

Phosphorothioate modified oligonucleotide–protein interactions

ST Crooke, TA Vickers, X Liang - Nucleic acids research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) interact with target RNAs via hybridization to modulate
gene expression through different mechanisms. ASO therapeutics are chemically modified …

Adenine oligomer directed synthesis of chiral gold nanoparticles

NH Cho, YB Kim, YY Lee, SW Im, RM Kim… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Precise control of morphology and optical response of 3-dimensional chiral nanoparticles
remain as a significant challenge. This work demonstrates chiral gold nanoparticle synthesis …

Antisense drug discovery and development technology considered in a pharmacological context

ST Crooke, X Liang, RM Crooke, BF Baker… - Biochemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
When coined, the term “antisense” included oligonucleotides of any structure, with any
chemical modification and designed to work through any post-RNA hybridization …

Studies of DNA 'Breathing' by Polarization-Sweep Single-Molecule Fluorescence Microscopy of Exciton-Coupled (iCy3)2 Dimer-Labeled DNA Fork Constructs

J Maurer, CS Albrecht, P Herbert… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Local fluctuations of the sugar–phosphate backbones and bases of DNA (often called DNA
'breathing') play a variety of critical roles in controlling the functional interactions of the DNA …

Hierarchical assembly of single-stranded RNA

LM Pietrek, LS Stelzl, G Hummer - Journal of Chemical Theory …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) plays a major role in the flow of genetic information–most
notably, in the form of messenger RNA (mRNA)–and in the regulation of biological …

Structure, stability and specificity of the binding of ssDNA and ssRNA with proteins

A Pal, Y Levy - PLoS computational biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Recognition of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) or single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) is important
for many fundamental cellular functions. A variety of single-stranded DNA-binding proteins …

Sequence-dependent three interaction site model for single-and double-stranded DNA

D Chakraborty, N Hori, D Thirumalai - Journal of chemical theory …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We develop a robust coarse-grained model for single-and double-stranded DNA by
representing each nucleotide by three interaction sites (TIS) located at the centers of mass of …

Sensing the structural and conformational properties of single-stranded nucleic acids using electrometry and molecular simulations

R Walker-Gibbons, X Zhu, A Behjatian, TJD Bennett… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Inferring the 3D structure and conformation of disordered biomolecules, eg, single stranded
nucleic acids (ssNAs), remains challenging due to their conformational heterogeneity in …

Substrate sequence selectivity of APOBEC3A implicates intra-DNA interactions

TV Silvas, S Hou, W Myint, E Nalivaika… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The APOBEC3 (A3) family of human cytidine deaminases is renowned for providing
a first line of defense against many exogenous and endogenous retroviruses. However, the …