Replacing antibodies with aptamers in lateral flow immunoassay

A Chen, S Yang - Biosensors and bioelectronics, 2015 - Elsevier
Aptamers have been identified against various targets as a type of chemical or nucleic acid
ligand by systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX) with high …

Nucleic acid ligands with protein-like side chains: modified aptamers and their use as diagnostic and therapeutic agents

JC Rohloff, AD Gelinas, TC Jarvis, UA Ochsner… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2014 - cell.com
Limited chemical diversity of nucleic acid libraries has long been suspected to be a major
constraining factor in the overall success of SELEX (Systematic Evolution of Ligands by …

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 …

Challenges and opportunities for small molecule aptamer development

M McKeague, MC DeRosa - Journal of nucleic acids, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Aptamers are single‐stranded oligonucleotides that bind to targets with high affinity and
selectivity. Their use as molecular recognition elements has emerged as a viable approach …

Methods for improving aptamer binding affinity

H Hasegawa, N Savory, K Abe, K Ikebukuro - Molecules, 2016 - mdpi.com
Aptamers are single stranded oligonucleotides that bind a wide range of biological targets.
Although aptamers can be isolated from pools of random sequence oligonucleotides using …

Updates on aptamer research

MH Ali, ME Elsherbiny, M Emara - International journal of molecular …, 2019 - mdpi.com
For many years, different probing techniques have mainly relied on antibodies for molecular
recognition. However, with the discovery of aptamers, this has changed. The science …

Selection of DNA aptamers with two modified bases

BN Gawande, JC Rohloff, JD Carter… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The nucleobases comprising DNA and RNA aptamers provide considerably less chemical
diversity than protein-based ligands, limiting their versatility. The introduction of novel …

Aptamer-based ELISA assay for highly specific and sensitive detection of Zika NS1 protein

KH Lee, H Zeng - Analytical chemistry, 2017 - ACS Publications
We report here a few Zika NS1-binding ssDNA aptamers selected using the conventional
SELEX protocol, and their application in an ELISA assay for sensitive diagnosis of Zika NS1 …

ABCs of DNA aptamer and related assay development

TK Sharma, JG Bruno, A Dhiman - Biotechnology advances, 2017 - Elsevier
This review is intended to guide the novice in aptamer research and development to
understand virtually all of the aptamer development options and currently available assay …

Aptamers facilitating amplified detection of biomolecules

F Li, H Zhang, Z Wang, AM Newbigging… - Analytical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Since they were first reported by two independent research groups 1, 2 in 1990, aptamers
have been widely used in analytical detection, separation, diagnostics, imaging, and …