Genetic Alphabet Expansion Provides Versatile Specificities and Activities of Unnatural-Base DNA Aptamers Targeting Cancer Cells

The potential of genetic alphabet expansion technologies using artificial extra base pairs (unnatural base pairs) has been rapidly expanding and increasing. We present that the hydrophobic unnatural base, 7-(2-thienyl)imidazo[4,5-b]pyridine (Ds), which acts as a fifth letter in a DNA library, provid...

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Main Authors: Kazunobu Futami, Michiko Kimoto, Yun Wei Shermane Lim, Ichiro Hirao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-03-01
Series:Molecular Therapy: Nucleic Acids
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2162253118303056