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ArticleBiochemistry2021

Mimicking Functions of Native Enzymes or Photosynthetic Reaction Centers by Nucleoapzymes and Photonucleoapzymes.

Margarita Vázquez-González, Zhixin Zhou, Yonatan Biniuri, Bilha Willner, Itamar Willner

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Article in Biochemistry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Margarita Vázquez-GonzálezInstitute of Chemistry, The Minerva Center of Biohybrid Complex Systems, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
Zhixin ZhouInstitute of Chemistry, The Minerva Center of Biohybrid Complex Systems, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-0450-1921
Yonatan BiniuriInstitute of Chemistry, The Minerva Center of Biohybrid Complex Systems, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
Bilha WillnerInstitute of Chemistry, The Minerva Center of Biohybrid Complex Systems, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
Itamar WillnerInstitute of Chemistry, The Minerva Center of Biohybrid Complex Systems, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-9710-9077
Hebrew University of Jerusalem · IL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The covalent linkage of catalytic units to aptamer sequence-specific nucleic acids exhibiting selective binding affinities for substrates leads to functional scaffolds mimicking native enzymes, nucleoapzymes. The binding of the substrates to the aptamer and their structural orientation with respect to the catalytic units duplicate the functions of the active center of enzymes. The possibility of linking the catalytic sites directly, or through spacer units, to the 5'-end, 3'-end, and middle positions of the aptamers allows the design of nucleoapzyme libraries, revealing structure-functions diversities, and these can be modeled by molecular dynamics simulations. Catalytic sites integrated into nucleoapzymes include DNAzymes, transition metal complexes, and organic ligands. Catalytic transformations driven by nucleoapzymes are exemplified by the oxidation of dopamine or l-arginine, hydroxylation of tyrosine to l-DOPA, hydrolysis of ATP, and cholic acid-modified esters. The covalent linkage of photosensitizers to the tyrosinamide aptamer leads to a photonucleoapzyme scaffold that binds the

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Aptamers, NucleotideDNA, CatalyticCatalytic DomainMolecular Dynamics SimulationPhotosynthetic Reaction Center Complex ProteinsAptamers, NucleotideDNA, CatalyticPhotosynthetic Reaction Center Complex Proteins

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PMID32613829
PMCPMC8028052
OpenAlexW3038845421

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