Search Results - "Ly, Danith H."
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In utero nanoparticle delivery for site-specific genome editing
Published in Nature communications (26-06-2018)“…Genetic diseases can be diagnosed early during pregnancy, but many monogenic disorders continue to cause considerable neonatal and pediatric morbidity and…”
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Electronic Barcoding of a Viral Gene at the Single-Molecule Level
Published in Nano letters (14-03-2012)“…A new single-molecule approach for rapid and purely electronic discrimination among similar genes is presented. Combining solid-state nanopores and γ-modified…”
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In vivo correction of anaemia in β-thalassemic mice by γPNA-mediated gene editing with nanoparticle delivery
Published in Nature communications (26-10-2016)“…The blood disorder, β-thalassaemia, is considered an attractive target for gene correction. Site-specific triplex formation has been shown to induce DNA repair…”
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Gamma Peptide Nucleic Acids: As Orthogonal Nucleic Acid Recognition Codes for Organizing Molecular Self-Assembly
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (08-07-2015)“…Nucleic acids are an attractive platform for organizing molecular self-assembly because of their specific nucleobase interactions and defined length scale…”
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Anti-tumor Activity of miniPEG-γ-Modified PNAs to Inhibit MicroRNA-210 for Cancer Therapy
Published in Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids (15-12-2017)“…MicroRNAs (miRs) are frequently overexpressed in human cancers. In particular, miR-210 is induced in hypoxic cells and acts to orchestrate the adaptation of…”
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β-Catenin knockdown in liver tumor cells by a cell permeable gamma guanidine-based peptide nucleic acid
Published in Current cancer drug targets (01-10-2013)“…Hepatocellular cancer (HCC) is the third cause of death by cancer worldwide. In the current study we target β- catenin, an oncogene mutated and constitutively…”
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Single-stranded γPNAs for in vivo site-specific genome editing via Watson-Crick recognition
Published in Current gene therapy (01-01-2014)“…Triplex-forming peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) facilitate gene editing by stimulating recombination of donor DNAs within genomic DNA via site-specific formation…”
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Shape selective bifacial recognition of double helical DNA
Published in Communications chemistry (07-11-2018)“…An impressive array of antigene approaches has been developed for recognition of double helical DNA over the past three decades; however, few have exploited…”
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Effect of Backbone Flexibility on Charge Transfer Rates in Peptide Nucleic Acid Duplexes
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (06-06-2012)“…Charge transfer (CT) properties are compared between peptide nucleic acid structures with an aminoethylglycine backbone (aeg-PNA) and those with a γ-methylated…”
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Mitotic Misregulation and Human Aging
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (31-03-2000)“…Messenger RNA levels were measured in actively dividing fibroblasts isolated from young, middle-age, and old-age humans and humans with progeria, a rare…”
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Loop and Backbone Modifications of Peptide Nucleic Acid Improve G-Quadruplex Binding Selectivity
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (30-12-2009)“…Targeting guanine (G) quadruplex structures is an exciting new strategy with potential for controlling gene expression and designing anticancer agents…”
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Strand Invasion of DNA Quadruplexes by PNA: Comparison of Homologous and Complementary Hybridization
Published in Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology (19-08-2013)“…Molecular recognition of DNA quadruplex structures is envisioned to be a strategy for regulating gene expression at the transcriptional level and for in situ…”
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Antitumor Effects of EGFR Antisense Guanidine-Based Peptide Nucleic Acids in Cancer Models
Published in ACS chemical biology (15-02-2013)“…Peptide nucleic acids have emerged over the past two decades as a promising class of nucleic acid mimics because of their strong binding affinity and sequence…”
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Stereochemical conversion of nucleic acid circuits via strand displacement
Published in Communications chemistry (04-12-2018)“…Remarkable accomplishments demonstrating the importance of nucleic acids in molecular engineering and computation have been made over the past two decades…”
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Development of the Right- and Left-Handed Gamma Peptide Nucleic Acid Building Blocks for On-Resin Chemical Functionalization
Published in Journal of organic chemistry (04-11-2022)“…Gamma peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) are a promising class of nucleic acid mimics that adopt either a right- or left-handed helical motif as individual strands…”
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Novel Binding and Efficient Cellular Uptake of Guanidine-Based Peptide Nucleic Acids (GPNA)
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (11-06-2003)“…Incorporation of a guanidine functional group into the PNA backbone facilitates cellular uptake of PNA into mammalian cells with efficiency comparable to that…”
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Synthesis and Characterization of Conformationally Preorganized, (R)-Diethylene Glycol-Containing γ-Peptide Nucleic Acids with Superior Hybridization Properties and Water Solubility
Published in Journal of organic chemistry (15-07-2011)“…Developed in the early 1990s, peptide nucleic acid (PNA) has emerged as a promising class of nucleic acid mimic because of its strong binding affinity and…”
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Strand Invasion of Mixed-Sequence, Double-Helical B-DNA by γ-Peptide Nucleic Acids Containing G-Clamp Nucleobases under Physiological Conditions
Published in Biochemistry (Easton) (17-05-2011)“…Peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) make up the only class of nucleic acid mimics developed to date that has been shown to be capable of invading double-helical…”
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Cell-Permeable Peptide Nucleic Acid Designed to Bind to the 5‘-Untranslated Region of E-cadherin Transcript Induces Potent and Sequence-Specific Antisense Effects
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (20-12-2006)“…Establishing a general and effective method for regulating gene expression in mammalian systems is important for many aspects of biological and biomedical…”
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A Robust Method for Preparing Optically Pure MiniPEG-Containing Gamma PNA Monomers
Published in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) (2020)“…We report the syntheses of chemical building blocks of a particular class of chiral PNAs, called miniPEG-containing (R)-gamma PNAs (or (R)-MPγPNAs). The…”
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