Aptamer-based detection of circulating targets for precision medicine

L Wu, Y Wang, X Xu, Y Liu, B Lin, M Zhang… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The past decade has witnessed ongoing progress in precision medicine to improve human
health. As an emerging diagnostic technique, liquid biopsy can provide real-time …

Advances and challenges in small‐molecule DNA aptamer isolation, characterization, and sensor development

H Yu, O Alkhamis, J Canoura, Y Liu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aptamers are short oligonucleotides isolated in vitro from randomized libraries that can bind
to specific molecules with high affinity, and offer a number of advantages relative to …

Revealing protein–lncRNA interaction

F Ferre, A Colantoni… - Briefings in …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are associated to a plethora of cellular functions, most of
which require the interaction with one or more RNA-binding proteins (RBPs); similarly, RBPs …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Current approaches in SELEX: An update to aptamer selection technology

M Darmostuk, S Rimpelova, H Gbelcova, T Ruml - Biotechnology advances, 2015 - Elsevier
Systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX) is a well-established
and efficient technology for the generation of oligonucleotides with a high target affinity …

[HTML][HTML] Generative aptamer discovery using RaptGen

N Iwano, T Adachi, K Aoki, Y Nakamura… - Nature Computational …, 2022 - nature.com
Nucleic acid aptamers are generated by an in vitro molecular evolution method known as
systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX). Various candidates are …

Aptamers in analytics

M Ilgu, M Nilsen-Hamilton - Analyst, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Nucleic acid aptamers are promising alternatives to antibodies in analytics. They are
generally obtained through an iterative SELEX protocol that enriches a population of …

Computational tools for aptamer identification and optimization

D Sun, M Sun, J Zhang, X Lin, Y Zhang, F Lin… - TrAC Trends in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Aptamers are single-stranded DNA or RNA oligonucleotides that can selectively bind to a
specific target. They are generally obtained by SELEX, but the procedure is challenging and …

[HTML][HTML] FASTAptamer: a bioinformatic toolkit for high-throughput sequence analysis of combinatorial selections

KK Alam, JL Chang, DH Burke - Molecular Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2015 - cell.com
High-throughput sequence (HTS) analysis of combinatorial selection populations
accelerates lead discovery and optimization and offers dynamic insight into selection …

Accelerating post-SELEX aptamer engineering using exonuclease digestion

J Canoura, H Yu, O Alkhamis… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX) process enables the
isolation of aptamers from random oligonucleotide libraries. However, it is generally difficult …