Aptamers against live targets: is in vivo SELEX finally coming to the edge?

M Sola, AP Menon, B Moreno… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2020 - cell.com
Targeted therapeutics underwent a revolution with the entry of monoclonal antibodies in the
medical toolkit. Oligonucleotide aptamers form another family of target agents that have …

Gene therapy for visual loss: Opportunities and concerns

JH Lee, JH Wang, J Chen, F Li, TL Edwards… - Progress in retinal and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Many clinical trials using gene therapy have shown significant therapeutic benefits and
exceptional safety records. Increasing evidence is verifying the long sought-after promise …

RNA–protein interaction mapping via MS2-or Cas13-based APEX targeting

S Han, BS Zhao, SA Myers, SA Carr… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
RNA–protein interactions underlie a wide range of cellular processes. Improved methods
are needed to systematically map RNA–protein interactions in living cells in an unbiased …

Directed evolution of split APEX2 peroxidase

Y Han, TC Branon, JD Martell, D Boassa… - ACS Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
APEX is an engineered peroxidase that catalyzes the oxidation of a wide range of
substrates, facilitating its use in a variety of applications from subcellular staining for electron …

Transcriptome-wide discovery of coding and noncoding RNA-binding proteins

R Huang, M Han, L Meng… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Transcriptome-wide identification of RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) is a prerequisite for
understanding the posttranscriptional gene regulation networks. However, proteomic …

CLIP-Seq analysis enables the design of protective ribosomal RNA bait oligonucleotides against C9ORF72 ALS/FTD poly-GR pathophysiology

JA Ortega, IR Sasselli, M Boccitto, AC Fleming… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia patients with a hexanucleotide
repeat expansion in C9ORF72 (C9-HRE) accumulate poly-GR and poly-PR aggregates. The …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide methods for investigating long noncoding RNAs

M Cao, J Zhao, G Hu - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2019 - Elsevier
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are large RNA transcripts that do not code for proteins but
exert their effects in the form of RNA. To date many thousands of lncRNAs have been …

[HTML][HTML] Enzymolysis-based RNA pull-down identifies YTHDC2 as an inhibitor of antiviral innate response

J Zhu, S Liu, J Fang, Z Cui, B Wang, Y Wang, L Liu… - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
The innate immune response must be terminated in a timely manner at the late stage of
infection to prevent unwanted inflammation. The role of m 6 A-modified RNAs and their …

Structural characteristics of simple RNA repeats associated with disease and their deleterious protein interactions

A Ciesiolka, M Jazurek, K Drazkowska… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Short Tandem Repeats (STRs) are frequent entities in many transcripts, however, in some
cases, pathological events occur when a critical repeat length is reached. This phenomenon …

SRSF protein kinase 1 modulates RAN translation and suppresses CGG repeat toxicity

I Malik, YJ Tseng, SE Wright, K Zheng… - EMBO molecular …, 2021 - embopress.org
Transcribed CGG repeat expansions cause neurodegeneration in Fragile X‐associated
tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS). CGG repeat RNAs sequester RNA‐binding proteins …