Small molecule recognition of disease-relevant RNA structures

SM Meyer, CC Williams, Y Akahori, T Tanaka… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Targeting RNAs with small molecules represents a new frontier in drug discovery and
development. The rich structural diversity of folded RNAs offers a nearly unlimited reservoir …

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 …

Molecular engineering of guanine-rich sequences: Z-DNA, DNA triplexes, and G-quadruplexes

O Doluca, JM Withers, VV Filichev - Chemical reviews, 2013 - ACS Publications
Guanine's array of hydrogen bond donors and acceptors lead it to take part in structures as
diverse as B-DNA, Z-DNA, hairpins, cruciforms, triplexes, and G-quadruplexes; these …

Enhancer remodeling promotes tumor-initiating activity in NRF2-activated non-small cell lung cancers

K Okazaki, H Anzawa, Z Liu, N Ota, H Kitamura… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Transcriptional dysregulation, which can be caused by genetic and epigenetic alterations, is
a fundamental feature of many cancers. A key cytoprotective transcriptional activator, NRF2 …

A review of currently identified small molecule modulators of microRNA function

EN Van Meter, JA Onyango, KA Teske - European journal of medicinal …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract microRNAs are small, noncoding RNA that negatively regulate gene expression.
Since their discovery in 1993, approximately 2500 human mature microRNAs have been …

Targeting the production of oncogenic microRNAs with multimodal synthetic small molecules

DD Vo, C Staedel, L Zehnacker, R Benhida… - ACS chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a recently discovered category of small RNA molecules that
regulate gene expression at the post-transcriptional level. Accumulating evidence indicates …

Sequence-selective recognition of double-stranded RNA and enhanced cellular uptake of cationic nucleobase and backbone-modified peptide nucleic acids

D Hnedzko, DW McGee, YA Karamitas, E Rozners - Rna, 2017 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
Sequence-selective recognition of complex RNAs in live cells could find broad applications
in biology, biomedical research, and biotechnology. However, specific recognition of …

Design and implementation of synthetic RNA binders for the inhibition of miR-21 biogenesis

C Maucort, DD Vo, S Aouad, C Charrat… - ACS medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Targeting RNAs using small molecules is an emerging field of medicinal chemistry and
holds promise for the discovery of efficient tools for chemical biology. MicroRNAs are …

Fluorogenic thiazole orange TOTFO probes stabilise parallel DNA triplexes at pH 7 and above

S Walsh, AH El-Sagheer, T Brown - Chemical science, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The instability of DNA triplexes particularly at neutral pH and above severely limits their
applications. Here, we demonstrate that the introduction of a thiazole orange (TO) …

Building of neomycin–nucleobase–amino acid conjugates for the inhibition of oncogenic miRNAs biogenesis

DD Vo, C Becquart, TPA Tran, A Di Giorgio… - Organic & …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a recently discovered category of small RNA molecules that
regulate gene expression at the post-transcriptional level. Accumulating evidence indicates …