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ReviewBiomedicines2017

Development of Phosphorothioate DNA and DNA Thioaptamers.

David E Volk, Ganesh L R Lokesh

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Review in Biomedicines, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Detection of the phosphorothioate oligonucleotide fomivirsen using a ligase detection reaction with polymerase chain reaction.Analytical sciences : the international journal of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry · 2024
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  15. Emerging Progress of RNA-Based Antitumor Therapeutics.International journal of biological sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

David E VolkMcGovern Medical School, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA. david.volk@uth.tmc.edu.
Ganesh L R LokeshMcGovern Medical School, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine for the Prevention of Human Diseases, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA. lokesh.rao@uth.tmc.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nucleic acid aptamers are short RNA- or DNA-based affinity reagents typically selected from combinatorial libraries to bind to a specific target such as a protein, a small molecule, whole cells or even animals. Aptamers have utility in the development of diagnostic, imaging and therapeutic applications due to their size, physico-chemical nature and ease of synthesis and modification to suit the application. A variety of oligonucleotide modifications have been used to enhance the stability of aptamers from nuclease degradation in vivo. The non-bridging oxygen atoms of the phosphodiester backbones of RNA and DNA aptamers can be substituted with one or two sulfur atoms, resulting in thioaptamers with phosphorothioate or phosphorodithioate linkages, respectively. Such thioaptamers are known to have increased binding affinity towards their target, as well as enhanced resistance to nuclease degradation. In this review, we discuss the development of phosphorothioate chemistry and thioaptamers, with a brief review of selection methods.

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DNA aptamerthioaptamerX-aptamer

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PMID28703779
PMCPMC5618299

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