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ArticleNucleic acids research2021

Single-round deoxyribozyme discovery.

Tereza Streckerová, Jaroslav Kurfürst, Edward A Curtis

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. DNA Catalysis: Design, Function, and Optimization.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  9. Pushing the Limits of Nucleic Acid Function.Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Tereza StreckerováInstitute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague 160 00, Czech Republic.
Jaroslav KurfürstInstitute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague 160 00, Czech Republic.
Edward A CurtisInstitute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague 160 00, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0003-2680-0770

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Artificial evolution experiments typically use libraries of ∼1015 sequences and require multiple rounds of selection to identify rare variants with a desired activity. Based on the simple structures of some aptamers and nucleic acid enzymes, we hypothesized that functional motifs could be isolated from significantly smaller libraries in a single round of selection followed by high-throughput sequencing. To test this idea, we investigated the catalytic potential of DNA architectures in which twelve or fifteen randomized positions were embedded in a scaffold present in all library members. After incubating in either the presence or absence of lead (which promotes the nonenzymatic cleavage of RNA), library members that cleaved themselves at an RNA linkage were purified by PAGE and characterized by high-throughput sequencing. These selections yielded deoxyribozymes with activities 8- to 30-fold lower than those previously isolated under similar conditions from libraries containing 1014 different sequences, indicating that the disadvantage of using a less diverse pool can be surprisingly small. It was also possible to elucidate the sequence requirements and secondary structures of deoxyribozymes without performing additional experiments. Due to its relative simplicity, we anticipate that this approach will accelerate the discovery of new catalytic DNA and RNA motifs.

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DNA, CatalyticHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingNucleic Acid ConformationNucleotide MotifsRNA CleavageSubstrate SpecificityDNA, Catalytic

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PMID34133739
PMCPMC8266665

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