Multiple hydrogen bonding driven supramolecular architectures and their biomedical applications

Y Liu, L Wang, L Zhao, Y Zhang, ZT Li… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Supramolecular chemistry combines the strength of molecular assembly via various
molecular interactions. Hydrogen bonding facilitated self-assembly with the advantages of …

Small molecule approaches to targeting RNA

S Kovachka, M Panosetti, B Grimaldi… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The development of innovative methodologies to identify RNA binders has attracted
enormous attention in chemical biology and drug discovery. Although antibiotics targeting …

Heterobifunctional small molecules to modulate RNA function

S Kovachka, Y Tong, JL Childs-Disney… - Trends in …, 2024 - cell.com
RNA has diverse cellular functionality, including regulating gene expression, protein
translation, and cellular response to stimuli, due to its intricate structures. Over the past …

Selective and reversible ligand assembly on the DNA and RNA repeat sequences in myotonic dystrophy

SB Krueger, AN Lanzendorf, H Jeon… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Small molecule targeting of DNA and RNA sequences has come into focus as a therapeutic
strategy for diseases such as myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), a trinucleotide repeat …

Dynamic Covalent Template-Guided Screen for Nucleic Acid-Targeting Agents

SB Krueger, SC Zimmerman - Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
Trinucleotide repeat diseases such as myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) and Huntington's
disease (HD) are caused by expanded DNA repeats that can be used as templates to …

Affecting RNA biology genome-wide by binding small molecules and chemically induced proximity

JT Baisden, JL Childs-Disney, LS Ryan… - Current opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
The ENCODE and genome-wide association projects have shown that much of the genome
is transcribed into RNA and much less is translated into protein. These and other functional …

Versatile target-guided screen for discovering bidirectional transcription inhibitors of a trinucleotide repeat disease

LD Hagler, SB Krueger, LM Luu… - ACS Medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Myotonic dystrophy type 1 originates from d (CTG· CAG) repeats that undergo aberrant
expansion during normal processing because the d (CTG) repeat forms stable hairpin …

Massively parallel optimization of the linker domain in small molecule dimers targeting a toxic r (CUG) repeat expansion

S Vezina-Dawod, AJ Angelbello… - ACS Medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
RNA contributes to disease pathobiology and is an important therapeutic target. The
downstream biology of disease-causing RNAs can be short-circuited with small molecules …

A couple of the first cousins born with hypotonia and maternal polyhydramnios

M Ahmadpour‐kacho, YZ Pasha… - Clinical Case …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Key Clinical Message Congenital myotonic dystrophy should be considered in hypotonic
infants with polyhydramniotic mothers with a positive history of myotonia. Abstract …

Nucleic acid-templated assembly of therapeutic agents

SB Krueger - 2022 - ideals.illinois.edu
Small molecule targeting of nucleic acids has come into focus as a therapeutic strategy for
diseases such as myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), a trinucleotide repeat disease …