Peptide nucleic acid-zirconium coordination nanoparticles [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Ideal drug carriers feature a high loading capacity to minimize the exposure of patients with excessive, inactive carrier materials. The highest imaginable loading capacity could be achieved by nanocarriers, which are assembled from the therapeutic cargo
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Visible Light-Induced Templated Metathesis of Peptide–Nucleic Acid Conjugates with a Diselenide Bridge [PDF]
Biomolecules, 2023 The use of template molecules as chemical scaffolds that significantly influence the course of the reaction has recently been intensively studied. Peptide nucleic acids (PNA) are molecules that mimic natural nucleic acids.
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Cell-permeable peptide nucleic acid antisense oligonucleotide platform targeting human betacoronaviruses [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 IntroductionAntisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) with therapeutic potential have recently been reported to target the SARS-CoV-2 genome. Peptide nucleic acids (PNAs)-based ASOs have been regarded as promising drug candidates, but intracellular delivery has ...
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Synthetic RNA Silencing of Actinorhodin Biosynthesis in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 We demonstrate the first application of synthetic RNA gene silencers in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). Peptide nucleic acid and expressed antisense RNA silencers successfully inhibited actinorhodin production.
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Machine Learning Guides Peptide Nucleic Acid Flow Synthesis and Sequence Design [PDF]
Advanced Science, 2022 Peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) are potential antisense therapies for genetic, acquired, and viral diseases. Efficiently selecting candidate PNA sequences for synthesis and evaluation from a genome containing hundreds to thousands of options can be ...
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An Efficient Approach for the Design and Synthesis of Antimicrobial Peptide-Peptide Nucleic Acid Conjugates [PDF]
Frontiers in Chemistry, 2022 Peptide-Peptide Nucleic Acid (PNA) conjugates targeting essential bacterial genes have shown significant potential in developing novel antisense antimicrobials. The majority of efforts in this area are focused on identifying different PNA targets and the
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Acid-base and lipophilic properties of peptide nucleic acid derivatives
Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis, 2021 The first combined experimental and theoretical study on the ionization and lipophilic properties of peptide nucleic acid (PNA) derivatives, including eleven PNA monomers and two PNA decamers, is described.
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Investigation of the Characteristics of NLS-PNA: Influence of NLS Location on Invasion Efficiency
Applied Sciences, 2020 Peptide nucleic acid can recognise sequences in double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) through the formation of a double-duplex invasion complex. This double-duplex invasion is a promising method for the recognition of dsDNA in cellula because peptide nucleic acid (
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Applied Sciences, 2022 Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) is an analog of natural nucleic acids, where the sugar-phosphate backbone of DNA is replaced by an electrostatically neutral N-(2-aminoethyl)glycine backbone.
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Peptide-Based Nanoparticles for Therapeutic Nucleic Acid Delivery
Biomedicines, 2021 Gene therapy offers the possibility to skip, repair, or silence faulty genes or to stimulate the immune system to fight against disease by delivering therapeutic nucleic acids (NAs) to a patient.
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