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Peptide-nucleic acid nanostructures for transfection [PDF]

BioMolecular Concepts, 2012
AbstractTo use nucleic acids in biomedical research and medical applications, these highly hydrophilic macromolecules have to be transported through the organism, targeted to specific cell surfaces, and have to cross cellular barriers. To this end, nanosized transfection complexes have been designed and several of them have been successfully tested ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Thermostable neutral metalloprotease from Geobacillus sp. EA1 does not share thermolysin's preference for substrates with leucine at the P1′ position

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Knowing how proteases recognise preferred substrates facilitates matching proteases to applications. The S1′ pocket of protease EA1 directs cleavage to the N‐terminal side of hydrophobic residues, particularly leucine. The S1′ pocket of thermolysin differs from EA's at only one position (leucine in place of phenylalanine), which decreases cleavage ...
Grant R. Broomfield, Torsten Kleffmann, David J. Saul, Sigurd M. Wilbanks   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

C9orf72 ALS‐causing mutations lead to mislocalization and aggregation of nucleoporin Nup107 into stress granules

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Mutations in the C9orf72 gene represent the most common genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a fatal neurodegenerative disease. Using patient‐derived neurons and C. elegans models, we find that the nucleoporin Nup107 is dysregulated in C9orf72‐associated ALS. Conversely, reducing Nup107 levels mitigates disease‐related changes.
Saygın Bilican, Yara Nabawi, William Hongyu Zhang, Dunja Petrovic, Markus Wehrmann, Sara Muñoz‐García, Seda Koyuncu, David Vilchez   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Silencing disease genes in the laboratory and the clinic

, 2011
Synthetic nucleic acids are commonly used laboratory tools for modulating gene expression and have the potential to be widely used in the clinic. Progress towards nucleic acid drugs, however, has been slow and many challenges remain to be overcome before
Corey, David R., Watts, Jonathan K.
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Unbiased protein association study on the public human proteome reveals biological connections between co-occurring protein pairs [PDF]

, 2017
Mass-spectrometry-based, high-throughput proteomics experiments produce large amounts of data. While typically acquired to answer specific biological questions, these data can also be reused in orthogonal wayS to reveal new biological knowledge.
Gupta, Surya, Verheggen, Kenneth, Tavernier, Jan, Martens, Lennart   +3 more
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Peptide-based vectors: recent developments

Biomolecular Concepts, 2014
Peptides and peptide-cargo complexes have been used for drug delivery and gene therapy. One of the most used delivery vectors are cell-penetrating peptides, due to their ability to be taken up by a variety of cell types and deliver a large variety of ...
Cerrato Carmine Pasquale, Lehto Tõnis, Langel Ülo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Incorporation of thio-pseudoisocytosine into triplex-forming peptide nucleic acids for enhanced recognition of RNA duplexes

Nucleic Acids Research, 2014
Peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) have been developed for applications in biotechnology and therapeutics. There is great potential in the development of chemically modified PNAs or other triplex-forming ligands that selectively bind to RNA duplexes, but not ...
Gitali Devi, Zhen Yuan, Yunpeng Lu, Yanli Zhao, Gang Chen   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Targeting the AKT/mTOR pathway attenuates the metastatic potential of colorectal carcinoma circulating tumor cells in a murine xenotransplantation model

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Dual targeting of AKT and mTOR using MK2206 and RAD001 reduces tumor burden in an intracardiac colon cancer circulating tumor cell xenotransplantation model. Analysis of AKT isoform‐specific knockdowns in CTC‐MCC‐41 reveals differentially regulated proteins and phospho‐proteins by liquid chromatography coupled mass spectrometry. Circulating tumor cells
Daniel J. Smit, Thais Pereira‐Veiga, Helena Brauer, Michael Horn, Paula Nissen, Thomas Mair, Bente Siebels, Hannah Voß, Ruimeng Zhuang, Marie‐Therese Haider, Desiree Loreth, Margarita Iskhakova, Bele Lindemann, Julian Kött, Laure Cayrefourcq, Jasmin Wellbrock, Hartmut Schlüter, Klaus Pantel, Catherine Alix‐Panabières, Manfred Jücker   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Labeling of Unique Sequences in Double-Stranded DNA at Sites of Vicinal Nicks Generated by Nicking Endonucleases [PDF]

, 2008
We describe a new approach for labeling of unique sequences within dsDNA under nondenaturing conditions. The method is based on the site-specific formation of vicinal nicks, which are created by nicking endonucleases (NEases) at specified DNA sites on ...
Frank-Kamenetskii, Maxim D., Kuhn, Heiko
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Transcriptional regulation of neuropeptide receptors underlies context‐dependent adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Under environmental changes, the expression level of neuropeptide (NP) and neuropeptide receptor (NPR) genes changes to confer context‐dependent adaptation to the model organism Drosophila melanogaster. Through finding more regulatory elements in the NPR genes in comparison with their ligands (NPs), we found that NPR‐biased transcriptional regulation ...
SeungHeui Ryu, Yanan Wei, Zekun Wu, Tianmu Zhang, DoHoon Lee, Hadi Najafi, Woo Jae Kim   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source