Potential of Peptide Nucleic Acids in Future Therapeutic Applications [PDF]
Advanced Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 2018 Peptide nucleic acids (PNA) are synthetic analog of DNA with a repeating N-(2-aminoethyl)-glycine peptide backbone connected to purine and pyrimidine nucleobases via a linker.
Soheila Montazersaheb +2 more
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Modular self-assembly of gamma-modified peptide nucleic acids in organic solvent mixtures
Nature Communications, 2020 Nucleic acid-based materials are usually only compatible with aqueous solutions. Here, the authors show a structural nucleic acid nanotechnology using gamma-modified peptide nucleic acids that enables formation of solvent-compatible, self-assembling ...
Sriram Kumar +3 more
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Nucleic Acid Carriers Based on Precise Polymer Conjugates [PDF]
, 2011 Polymer polydispersity, random conjugation of functional groups, and poorly understood structure–activity relationships have constantly hampered progress in the development of nucleic acid carriers.
Troiber, Christina, Wagner, Ernst
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Peptide-PNA conjugates: Targeted transport of antisense therapeutics into tumors [PDF]
, 2003 Tumor-specific accumulation of antisense therapeutics: The conjugation of a receptor-binding peptide allows for the first time the selective transport of oligonucleotide analogues into tumor tissue.
Eisenhut, Michael +4 more
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Bacterial riboproteogenomics : the era of N-terminal proteoform existence revealed [PDF]
, 2020 With the rapid increase in the number of sequenced prokaryotic genomes, relying on automated gene annotation became a necessity. Multiple lines of evidence, however, suggest that current bacterial genome annotations may contain inconsistencies and are ...
Fijalkowska, Daria +3 more
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Study of E. coli Hfq's RNA annealing acceleration and duplex destabilization activities using substrates with different GC-contents [PDF]
, 2012 Folding of RNA molecules into their functional three-dimensional structures is often supported by RNA chaperones, some of which can catalyse the two elementary reactions helix disruption and helix formation.
Beich-Frandsen, Mads +6 more
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Antisense PNA accumulates in Escherichia coli and mediates a long post-antibiotic effect [PDF]
, 2007 Antisense agents that target growth-essential genes display surprisingly potent bactericidal properties. In particular, peptide nucleic acid (PNA) and phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomers linked to cationic carrier peptides are effective in time kill ...
Behmanesh, Mehrdad +9 more
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Exploring Protein-Protein Interactions as Drug Targets for Anti-cancer Therapy with In Silico Workflows [PDF]
, 2017 We describe a computational protocol to aid the design of small molecule and peptide drugs that target protein-protein interactions, particularly for anti-cancer therapy. To achieve this goal, we explore multiple strategies, including finding binding hot
A Goncearenco +44 more
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Effect of native gastric mucus on in vivo hybridization therapies directed at Helicobacter pylori [PDF]
, 2015 Helicobacter pylori infects more than 50% of the worldwide population. It is mostly found deep in the gastric mucus lining of the stomach, being a major cause of peptic ulcers and gastric adenocarcinoma. To face the increasing resistance of H.
Azevedo, Nuno F +13 more
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BMC Biotechnology, 2005 Background Nucleic acids detection using microarrays requires labelling of target nucleic acids with fluorophores or other reporter molecules prior to hybridization.
Leclerc Mario +7 more
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