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ArticleNucleic acids research2024

Ionic liquid-caged nucleic acids enable active folding-based molecular recognition with hydrolysis resistance.

Byunghwa Kang, Soyeon V Park, Seung Soo Oh

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Byunghwa KangDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Gyeongbuk 37673, South Korea.
Soyeon V ParkDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Gyeongbuk 37673, South Korea.
Seung Soo OhDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Gyeongbuk 37673, South Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-8045-080X
Pohang University of Science and Technology · KR

Funding

Defense Acquisition Program Administration and MOTIE of Korean government 22-CM-BR-13Education and research center for future materials F21YY7105002Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology RS-2023-00235283Ministry of Science and ICT 2022M3C1A3081178Ministry of Trade, Industry and EnergyNational Research Facilities and Equipment Center 2020R1A6C101A202National Research Foundation of KoreaTechnology Innovation Program 20020231
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Beyond storage and transmission of genetic information in cellular life, nucleic acids can perform diverse interesting functions, including specific target recognition and biochemical reaction acceleration; the versatile biopolymers, however, are acutely vulnerable to hydrolysis-driven degradation. Here, we demonstrate that the cage effect of choline dihydrogen phosphate permits active folding of nucleic acids like water, but prevents their phosphodiester hydrolysis unlike water. The choline-based ionic liquid not only serves as a universal inhibitor of nucleases, exceptionally extending half-lives of nucleic acids up to 6 500 000 times, but highly useful tasks of nucleic acids (e.g. mRNA detection of molecular beacons, ligand recognition of aptamers, and transesterification reaction of ribozymes) can be also conducted with well-conserved affinities and specificities. As liberated from the function loss and degradation risk, the presence of undesired and unknown nucleases does not undermine desired molecular functions of nucleic acids without hydrolysis artifacts even in nuclease cocktails and human saliva.

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Ionic LiquidsNucleic AcidsCholineHumansHydrolysisWaterCholineIonic LiquidsNucleic AcidsWater

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PMID37994697
PMCPMC10783497
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