Aptamer–protein interactions: from regulation to biomolecular detection

C Ji, J Wei, L Zhang, X Hou, J Tan, Q Yuan… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Serving as the basis of cell life, interactions between nucleic acids and proteins play
essential roles in fundamental cellular processes. Aptamers are unique single-stranded …

Recent advancements of aptamers in cancer therapy

S Venkatesan, K Chanda, MM Balamurali - ACS omega, 2023 - ACS Publications
Aptamers are chemical antibodies possessing the capability of overcoming the limitations
posed by conventional antibodies, particularly for diagnostic, therapeutic, and theranostic …

Promoter G-quadruplex binding styryl benzothiazolium derivative for applications in ligand affinity ranking and as ethidium bromide substitute in gel staining

RK Patidar, K Tiwari, R Tiwari… - ACS Applied Bio …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Fluorescent compounds that can preferentially interact with certain nucleic acids are of great
importance in new drug discovery in a multitude of functions including fluorescence-based …

Directing in Vitro Selection towards G‐quadruplex‐forming Aptamers to Inhibit HMGB1 Pathological Activity

E Napolitano, A Criscuolo, C Riccardi… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In the search for novel, effective inhibitors of High‐Mobility Group Box1 (HMGB1)—a protein
involved in various inflammatory and autoimmune diseases as well as in cancer—we herein …

[HTML][HTML] Probing naphthalene diimide and 3-hydroxypropylphosphate as end-conjugating moieties for improved thrombin binding aptamers: Structural and biological …

C Riccardi, KP de Carvasal, C Platella, A Meyer… - Bioorganic …, 2023 - Elsevier
The limitations associated with the in vivo use of the thrombin binding aptamer (TBA or TBA
15) have dramatically stimulated the search of suitable chemically modified analogues in …

Regulation of thrombin activity by ligand-induced topological alteration in a thrombin-binding aptamer

S Sasaki, Y Ma, T Hirokawa, K Ikebukuro… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Thrombin-binding aptamer (TBA), which forms a G-quadruplex (G4) structure with anti-
parallel topology, interacts with thrombin to inhibit its enzymatic activity. Here we show that …

[HTML][HTML] Aptamers Versus Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF): A New Battle against Ovarian Cancer

Y Mishra, A Chattaraj, V Mishra, A Ranjan… - Pharmaceuticals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cancer is one of the diseases that causes a high mortality as it involves unregulated and
abnormal cell growth proliferation that can manifest in any body region. One of the typical …