Genetic alphabet expansion technology by creating unnatural base pairs

M Kimoto, I Hirao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent advancements in the creation of artificial extra base pairs (unnatural base pairs,
UBPs) are opening the door to a new research area, xenobiology, and genetic alphabet …

Chemical modification of aptamers for increased binding affinity in diagnostic applications: Current status and future prospects

JP Elskens, JM Elskens, A Madder - International journal of molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Aptamers are short single stranded DNA or RNA oligonucleotides that can recognize
analytes with extraordinary target selectivity and affinity. Despite their promising properties …

Polymeric vehicles for nucleic acid delivery

AS Piotrowski-Daspit, AC Kauffman… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2020 - Elsevier
Polymeric vehicles are versatile tools for therapeutic gene delivery. Many polymers—when
assembled with nucleic acids into vehicles—can protect the cargo from degradation and …

Recent trends in nucleotide synthesis

B Roy, A Depaix, C Périgaud, S Peyrottes - Chemical Reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Focusing on the recent literature (since 2000), this review outlines the main synthetic
approaches for the preparation of 5′-mono-, 5′-di-, and 5′-triphosphorylated …

Structural insights into the processing of nucleobase-modified nucleotides by DNA polymerases

A Hottin, A Marx - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2016 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The DNA polymerase-catalyzed incorporation of modified nucleotides is
employed in many biological technologies of prime importance, such as next-generation …

DNA catalysis: the chemical repertoire of DNAzymes

M Hollenstein - Molecules, 2015 - mdpi.com
Deoxyribozymes or DNAzymes are single-stranded catalytic DNA molecules that are
obtained by combinatorial in vitro selection methods. Initially conceived to function as gene …

Enzymatic synthesis of base-functionalized nucleic acids for sensing, cross-linking, and modulation of protein–DNA binding and transcription

M Hocek - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Protein–DNA interactions are important in replication, transcription, repair, as
well as epigenetic modifications of DNA, which involve methylation and demethylation of …

Synthesis of base-modified 2′-deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates and their use in enzymatic synthesis of modified DNA for applications in bioanalysis and chemical …

M Hocek - The Journal of organic chemistry, 2014 - ACS Publications
The synthesis of 2′-deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates (dNTPs) either by classical
triphosphorylation of nucleosides or by aqueous cross-coupling reactions of halogenated …

Biological applications of xeno nucleic acids

K Morihiro, Y Kasahara, S Obika - Molecular BioSystems, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Biological applications of xeno nucleic acids - Molecular BioSystems (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/C6MB00538A
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Chemical methods for the modification of RNA

M Flamme, LK McKenzie, I Sarac, M Hollenstein - Methods, 2019 - Elsevier
RNA is often considered as being the vector for the transmission of genetic information from
DNA to the protein synthesis machinery. However, besides translation RNA participates in a …