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ReviewBiomedicines2017

Engineered Aptamers to Probe Molecular Interactions on the Cell Surface.

Sana Batool, Sanam Bhandari, Shanell George, Precious Okeoma, Nabeela Van, Hazan E Zümrüt, Prabodhika Mallikaratchy

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In one paragraph

Review in Biomedicines, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
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  3. AnBiochemistry · 2022
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  4. Enhancing CAR-T Cell Therapy with Functional Nucleic Acids.ACS pharmacology & translational science · 2021
    Review
  5. Logic Gates Based on DNA Aptamers.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
    Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sana BatoolDepartment of Chemistry, Lehman College, The City University of New York, 250 Bedford Park Blvd. West, Bronx, New York, NY 10468, USA. Sana.Batool@lc.cuny.edu.
Sanam BhandariDepartment of Chemistry, Lehman College, The City University of New York, 250 Bedford Park Blvd. West, Bronx, New York, NY 10468, USA. sanam.bhandari@lc.cuny.edu.
Shanell GeorgeDepartment of Chemistry, Lehman College, The City University of New York, 250 Bedford Park Blvd. West, Bronx, New York, NY 10468, USA. Shanell.George2@lc.cuny.edu.
Precious OkeomaDepartment of Chemistry, Lehman College, The City University of New York, 250 Bedford Park Blvd. West, Bronx, New York, NY 10468, USA. preciousokeoma@hotmail.com.
Nabeela VanDepartment of Chemistry, Lehman College, The City University of New York, 250 Bedford Park Blvd. West, Bronx, New York, NY 10468, USA. Nabeela.Van@lc.cuny.edu.
Hazan E ZümrütPh.D. Programs in Chemistry and Biochemistry, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA. hzumrut@gradcenter.cuny.edu.
Prabodhika MallikaratchyDepartment of Chemistry, Lehman College, The City University of New York, 250 Bedford Park Blvd. West, Bronx, New York, NY 10468, USA. prabodhika.mallikaratchy@lehman.cuny.edu.
Lehman College · USThe Graduate Center, CUNY · US

Funding

Ligand Guided Selection of Aptamers against Human Leukemia and LymphomaSC1GM122648 · NIGMS · HERBERT H. LEHMAN COLLEGE · PI MALLIKARATCHY, PRABODHIKA · 2017 to 2020
$1.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS SC1 GM122648
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Significant progress has been made in understanding the nature of molecular interactions on the cell membrane. To decipher such interactions, molecular scaffolds can be engineered as a tool to modulate these events as they occur on the cell membrane. To guarantee reliability, scaffolds that function as modulators of cell membrane events must be coupled to a targeting moiety with superior chemical versatility. In this regard, nucleic acid aptamers are a suitable class of targeting moieties. Aptamers are inherently chemical in nature, allowing extensive site-specific chemical modification to engineer sensing molecules. Aptamers can be easily selected using a simple laboratory-based in vitro evolution method enabling the design and development of aptamer-based functional molecular scaffolds against wide range of cell surface molecules. This article reviews the application of aptamers as monitors and modulators of molecular interactions on the mammalian cell surface with the aim of increasing our understanding of cell-surface receptor response to external stimuli. The information gained from these types of studies could eventually prove useful in engineering improved medical diagnostics and therapeutics.

Indexed as

aptamersdiagnosticsmolecular modulatorsnanorobotsnanosensorstherapeutics

Identifiers

PMID28850067
PMCPMC5618312
OpenAlexW2750636677

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