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ArticleOligonucleotides2008

Novel aptamer inhibitors of human immunodeficiency virus reverse transcriptase.

Jeffrey J DeStefano, Gauri R Nair

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Article in Oligonucleotides, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Aptamers used for biosensors and targeted therapy.Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie · 2020
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  3. Aptamers for Viral Detection and Inhibition.ACS infectious diseases · 2022
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  6. Aptamer Applications in Emerging Viral Diseases.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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  7. Aptamers for Anti-Viral Therapeutics and Diagnostics.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  8. Emerging Technologies for the Treatment of COVID-19.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2021
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  20. Aptamers: multifunctional molecules for biomedical research.Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) · 2013
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jeffrey J DeStefanoDepartment of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. jdestefa@umd.edu
Gauri R Nair

Funding

MECHANISM OF RECOMBINATION BY HIV REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASER01GM051140 · NIGMS · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · PI DESTEFANO, JEFFREY J · 2000 to 2011
$3.0M
MECHANISM OF RECOMBINATION BY HIV REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASER29GM051140 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PK CAMPUS · PI DESTEFANO, JEFFREY J · 1994 to 1998
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NIGMS NIH HHS GM051140NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM051140
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Primer-template-based double-stranded nucleic acids capable of binding human immunodeficiency virus reverse transcriptase (HIV-RT) with high affinity were used as starting material to develop small single-stranded loop-back DNA aptamers. The original primer-templates were selected using a SELEX (Systematic Evolution of Ligands by EXponential enrichment) approach and consisted of 46- and 50-nt primer and template strands, respectively. The major determinant of the approximately 10-fold tighter binding in selected sequences relative to control primer-templates was a run of 6.8 G residues at the 3' primer end. Sixty, thirty-seven, twenty-seven, and twenty-two nucleotide loop-back single-stranded versions that retained the base pairs near the 3' primer terminus were constructed. Both the 60- and 37-nt versions retained high affinity for RT with K(d) values of approximately 0.44 nM and 0.66 nM, respectively. Random sequence primer-templates of the same length had K(d)s of approximately 20 nM and approximately 161 nM. The shorter 27- and 22-nt aptamers bound with reduced affinity. Several modifications of the 37-nt aptamer were also tested including changes to the terminal 3' G nucleotide and internal bases in the G run, replacement of specific nucleotides with phosphothioates, and alterations to the 5' overhang. Optimal binding required a 4- to 5-nt overhang, and internal changes within the G run had a pronounced negative effect on binding. Phosphothioate nucleotides or the presence of a 3' dideoxy G residue did not alter affinity. The 37-nt aptamer was a potent inhibitor of HIV-RT in vitro and functioned by blocking binding of other primer-templates.

Indexed as

Aptamers, NucleotideBase SequenceGuanineHIV Reverse TranscriptaseHumansKineticsMolecular Sequence DataNucleic Acid ConformationPhosphorylationReverse Transcriptase InhibitorsRNASELEX Aptamer TechniqueTemplates, GeneticAptamers, NucleotideGuanineHIV Reverse TranscriptaseReverse Transcriptase InhibitorsRNA

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PMID18637731
PMCPMC2966829

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