A grafting strategy for the design of improved G-quadruplex aptamers and high-activity DNAzymes.

Nucleic acid aptamers are generally obtained by in vitro selection. Some have G-rich consensus sequences with ability to fold into the four-stranded structures known as G-quadruplexes. A few G-quadruplex aptamers have proven to bind hemin to form a new class of DNAzyme with the peroxidase-like activ...

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Main Authors: Tao Li, Erkang Wang, Shaojun Dong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2663033?pdf=render