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Aptamer

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Aptamer-Functionalized Interface Nanopores Enable Amino Acid-Specific Peptide Detection

Single-molecule proteomics based on nanopore technology has made significant advances in recent years. However, to achieve nanopore sensing with single amino acid resolution, several bottlenecks must be tackled: controlling nanopore sizes with nanoscale pr ...

2024

Theoretical analysis of divalent cation effects on aptamer recognition of neurotransmitter targets

Nako Nakatsuka, Dmitry Momotenko, Annina Stuber

Aptamer-based sensing of small molecules such as dopamine and serotonin in the brain, requires characterization of the specific aptamer sequences in solutions mimicking the in vivo environment with physiological ionic concentrations. In particular, divalen ...

2023

Aptamer Conformational Dynamics Modulate Neurotransmitter Sensing in Nanopores

Nako Nakatsuka, Dmitry Momotenko, Annina Stuber

Aptamers that undergo conformational changes upon small-molecule recognition have been shown to gate the ionic flux through nanopores by rearranging the charge density within the aptamer-occluded orifice. However, mechanistic insight into such systems wher ...

2023

RNA-based nanomedicines and their clinical applications

Yi Wang

RNA-based nanomedicines encompass a range of therapeutic approaches that utilize RNA molecules or molecules that target RNAs for the treatment or prevention of diseases. These include antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs), small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), endo ...

Beijing2023

Polymeric integration of structure-switching aptamers on transistors for histamine sensing

Nako Nakatsuka, Mattia Petrelli

Aptamers that undergo large conformational rearrangements at the surface of electrolyte-gated field-effect transistor (EG-FETs)-based biosensors can overcome the Debye length limitation in physiological high ionic strength environments. For the sensitive d ...

2023

High-affinity peptides developed against calprotectin and their application as synthetic ligands in diagnostic assays

Christian Heinis, Florence Pojer, Kelvin Ka Ching Lau, Lluc Farrera Soler, Cristina Diaz Perlas

A peptide was developed that binds to calprotectin, a marker of major inflammatory disorders, and found to be suited for diagnostic tests. The use of synthetic peptides in assays is of great interest due to their high precision, robustness and low price. C ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Interfacing aptamer-modified nanopipettes with neuronal media and ex vivo brain tissue

Nako Nakatsuka, Anna Burdina, Annina Stuber

Aptamer-functionalized biosensors exhibit high selectivity for monitoring neurotransmitters in complex environments. We translated nanoscale aptamer-modified nanopipette sensors to detect endogenous dopamine release in vitro and ex vivo. These sensors empl ...

2023

Computer-implemented design of peptide:receptor signaling complexes for enhanced chemotaxis

Patrick Daniel Barth, Robert Everett Jefferson

The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method for engineering the interaction between a protein and a cognate peptide that are capable of forming a molecular complex, wherein the method comprises (a) preparing in silico a library of test p ...

2023

Divalent Cation Dependence Enhances Dopamine Aptamer Biosensing

Nako Nakatsuka

Oligonucleotide receptors (aptamers), which change conformation upon target recognition, enable electronic biosensing under high ionic-strength conditions when coupled to field-effect transistors (FETs). Because highly negatively charged aptamer backbones ...

2021

Generation of a Large Peptide Phage Display Library by Self-Ligation of Whole-Plasmid PCR Product

Christian Heinis, Xudong Kong, Vanessa Carle, Cristina Diaz Perlas, Kaycie Marie Butler

The success of phage display, used for developing target-specific binders based on peptides and proteins, depends on the size and diversity of the library screened, but generating large libraries of phage-encoded polypeptides remains challenging. New pepti ...

2020

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