Aptamers: multifunctional molecules for biomedical research

J Banerjee, M Nilsen-Hamilton - Journal of molecular medicine, 2013 - Springer
Aptamers are single-stranded oligonucleotides that fold into well-defined three-dimensional
shapes, allowing them to bind their targets with high affinity and specificity. They can be …

Aptamers: current challenges and future prospects

GT Rozenblum, VG Lopez, AD Vitullo… - Expert opinion on drug …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Aptamers are oligonucleotide molecules raised in vitro from large combinatorial
libraries of nucleic acids and developed to bind to targets with high affinity and specificity …

Recent progress and opportunities for nucleic acid aptamers

J Byun - Life, 2021 - mdpi.com
Coined three decades ago, the term aptamer and directed evolution have now reached their
maturity. The concept that nucleic acid could modulate the activity of target protein as ligand …

[HTML][HTML] New insight into clinical development of nucleic acid aptamers

CL Esposito, S Catuogno… - Discovery …, 2011 - discoverymedicine.com
Nucleic acid-based aptamers have been shown as high-affinity ligands and potential
antagonists of disease-associated proteins. Aptamers, isolated from combinatorial libraries …

Application of aptamers in diagnostics, drug-delivery and imaging

C Chandola, S Kalme, MG Casteleijn, A Urtti… - Journal of …, 2016 - Springer
Aptamers are small, single-stranded oligonucleotides (DNA or RNA) that bind to their target
with high specificity and affinity. Although aptamers are analogous to antibodies for a wide …

Aptamers as a novel tool for diagnostics and therapy

O Kadioglu, AH Malczyk, HJ Greten, T Efferth - Investigational new drugs, 2015 - Springer
Aptamers are short single-stranded DNA or RNA oligonucleotides that are capable of
binding small molecules, proteins, or nucleotides with high specificity. They show a stable …

Aptamers as therapeutics

AD Keefe, S Pai, A Ellington - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2010 - nature.com
Nucleic acid aptamers can be selected from pools of random-sequence oligonucleotides to
bind a wide range of biomedically relevant proteins with affinities and specificities that are …

Aptamers in research and drug development

G Mayer, A Jenne - BioDrugs, 2004 - Springer
Aptamers are short single-stranded oligonucleotides that fold into well defined three-
dimensional shapes allowing them to bind to and inhibit their targets with high affinity and …

The future of aptamers in medicine

M Khati - Journal of Clinical Pathology, 2010 - jcp.bmj.com
Aptamers, simply described as chemical antibodies, are synthetic oligonucleotide ligands or
peptides that can be isolated in vitro against diverse targets including toxins, bacterial and …

Aptamers: molecules of great potential

F Radom, PM Jurek, MP Mazurek, J Otlewski… - Biotechnology …, 2013 - Elsevier
Aptamers emerged over 20 years ago as a class of nucleic acids able to recognize specific
targets. Today, aptamer-related studies constitute a large and important field of …