Rational design of aptamer switches with programmable pH response

Previous design strategies for pH sensitive aptamers were not readily tunable across pH ranges. Here the authors present a general method to convert aptamers into pH-responsive switches using two orthogonal motifs.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ian A. P. Thompson, Liwei Zheng, Michael Eisenstein, H. Tom Soh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16808-2