The emerging field of RNA nanotechnology

P Guo - Nature nanotechnology, 2010 - nature.com
Like DNA, RNA can be designed and manipulated to produce a variety of different
nanostructures. Moreover, RNA has a flexible structure and possesses catalytic functions …

Quantum dot surface engineering: toward inert fluorophores with compact size and bright, stable emission

SJ Lim, L Ma, A Schleife, AM Smith - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
The surfaces of colloidal nanocrystals are complex interfaces between solid crystals,
coordinating ligands, and liquid solutions. For fluorescent quantum dots, the properties of …

Structure and mechanism of a methyltransferase ribozyme

J Deng, TJ Wilson, J Wang, X Peng, M Li, X Lin… - Nature Chemical …, 2022 - nature.com
Known ribozymes in contemporary biology perform a limited range of chemical catalysis, but
in vitro selection has generated species that catalyze a broader range of chemistry; yet …

Crystal structure and mechanistic investigation of the twister ribozyme

Y Liu, TJ Wilson, SA McPhee, DMJ Lilley - Nature chemical biology, 2014 - nature.com
We present a crystal structure at 2.3-Å resolution of the recently described nucleolytic
ribozyme twister. The RNA adopts a previously uncharacterized compact fold based on a …

Visualizing large RNA molecules in solution

A Gopal, ZH Zhou, CM Knobler, WM Gelbart - Biophysical Journal, 2012 - cell.com
Single-stranded (ss) RNAs longer than a few hundred nucleotides do not have a unique
structure in solution. Their equilibrium properties therefore reflect the average of an …

Assessment and comparison of thermal stability of phosphorothioate-DNA, DNA, RNA, 2′-F RNA, and LNA in the context of Phi29 pRNA 3WJ

X Piao, H Wang, DW Binzel, P Guo - RNA, 2018 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
The question of whether RNA is more stable or unstable compared to DNA or other nucleic
acids has long been a subject of extensive scrutiny and public attention. Recently …

Predicting coaxial helical stacking in RNA junctions

C Laing, D Wen, JTL Wang, T Schlick - Nucleic acids research, 2012 - academic.oup.com
RNA junctions are important structural elements that form when three or more helices come
together in space in the tertiary structures of RNA molecules. Determining their structural …

Modified Outer Membrane Protein-G Nanopores with Expanded and Truncated β-Hairpins for Recognition of Double-Stranded DNA

T Tosaka, K Kamiya - ACS Applied Nano Materials, 2022 - ACS Publications
The detection of single molecules such as single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) and other small
molecules through biological nanopores is a powerful approach for analyzing DNA …

Metal ion induced heterogeneity in RNA folding studied by smFRET

R Börner, D Kowerko, HG Miserachs… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2016 - Elsevier
More than two decades of investigating nucleic acids and ribonucleic acids (RNA) using
single molecule Förster resonance energy transfer (smFRET) have passed. It turned out that …

Secondary structure of a conserved domain in an intron of influenza A M1 mRNA

T Jiang, SD Kennedy, WN Moss, E Kierzek… - Biochemistry, 2014 - ACS Publications
Influenza A virus utilizes RNA throughout infection. Little is known, however, about the roles
of RNA structures. A previous bioinformatics survey predicted multiple regions of influenza A …