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Revealing G4 Structures as Drug Targets: Exploring the Potential of Novel Therapeutic Agents.

G-quadruplex (G4) structures represent noncanonical secondary formations found in DNA and RNA. Recent research reveals that G4s are abnormally enriched in various cancers, with closely linked to malignancy, metastatic potential, and prognosis. These structures have emerged as promising biomarkers for cancer with notable clinical relevance. Concurrently, investigations into compounds that selectively recognize DNA or RNA G4s as potential anticancer agents offer new avenues for early cancer diagnosis and therapeutic strategies. This review systematically analyzes the chemical structural characte

Landscape of small nucleic acid therapeutics: moving from the bench to the clinic as next-generation medicines.

The ability of small nucleic acids to modulate gene expression via a range of processes has been widely explored. Compared with conventional treatments, small nucleic acid therapeutics have the potential to achieve long-lasting or even curative effects via gene editing. As a result of recent technological advances, efficient small nucleic acid delivery for therapeutic and biomedical applications has been achieved, accelerating their clinical translation. Here, we review the increasing number of small nucleic acid therapeutic classes and the most common chemical modifications and delivery platf

Internalized Functional DNA Aptamers as Alternative Cancer Therapies.

Despite major advances, cancer remains one of the largest burdens of disease worldwide. One reason behind this is that killing tumor cells without affecting healthy surrounding tissue remains a largely elusive prospect, despite the widespread availability of cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agents. To meet these modern healthcare requirements, it is essential to develop precision therapeutics that minimise off-target side-effects for various cancer types. To this end, highly specific molecular targeting agents against cancer are of great interest. These agents may work by targeting intracellular sig

Vision of Life's Code: Molecular Probe Nanoarchitectonics for Deep RNA/DNA Illumination.

Visualization of RNA and DNA provides a window of opportunity for the early detection of multiple diseases and approaches to manipulate them before any pathological processes occur. However, current imaging systems often fail to meet these demands due to the need for multiple RNA and DNA chemical probes, which increases experimental complexity, reduces awareness of false positives, and limits imaging accuracy in complex biosystems. In this work, we identify the key challenges associated with using multiple probes for RNA and DNA imaging and analyze the mechanisms and performance of existing im

Aptamer: A potential oligonucleotide nanomedicine in the diagnosis and treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common cancers with a high mortality rate. Late diagnosis and poor prognosis are still a major drawback since curative therapies such as liver resection and liver transplantation are effective only for an early stage HCC. Development of novel molecular targeting therapies against HCC may provide new options that will improve the efficiency of the diagnosis and the success of the therapy, thus ameliorating the life expectancy of the patients. The aptamer is an oligonucleotide nanomedicine that has high binding affinity and specificity to small a

Nucleic acid aptamers in orthopedic diseases: promising therapeutic agents for bone disorders.

Precision medicine has become a cornerstone in modern therapeutic strategies, with nucleic acid aptamers emerging as pivotal tools due to their unique properties. These oligonucleotide fragments, selected through the Systematic Evolution of Ligands by Exponential Enrichment process, exhibit high affinity and specificity toward their targets, such as DNA, RNA, proteins, and other biomolecules. Nucleic acid aptamers offer significant advantages over traditional therapeutic agents, including superior biological stability, minimal immunogenicity, and the capacity for universal chemical modificatio

Aptamers and Antisense Oligonucleotides for Diagnosis and Treatment of Hematological Diseases.

Aptamers or chemical antibodies are single-stranded DNA or RNA oligonucleotides that bind proteins and small molecules with high affinity and specificity by recognizing tertiary or quaternary structures as antibodies. Aptamers can be easily produced in vitro through a process known as systemic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment (SELEX) or a cell-based SELEX procedure. Aptamers and modified aptamers, such as slow, off-rate, modified aptamers (SOMAmers), can bind to target molecules with less polar and more hydrophobic interactions showing slower dissociation rates, higher stability,

Структурная основа для селективного метилирования 5-carboxymethoxyuridine В модификацию tRNA.

Постранарные модификации tRNA широко сохранены во всех сферах жизни. Особенно те из них, которые происходят в антикодоне, часто модифицируют эффективность перевода. Производственные показатели 5-hydroxyuridine конкретно встречаются в бактериальных тРНК, где 5-methoxyuridine и 5-carboxymethoxyuridine , являются основными видами бактерий с положительной и отрицательной массой, соответственно. В некоторых видах тРНК, 5- Карбоксиметоксиуридин может быть дополнительно метилирован CMOM для образования метилэстера. В этом докладе мы представляем рентгеновскую кристаллическую структуру Escherichia col

Antibiotic-Free Gene Vectors: A 25-Year Journey to Clinical Trials.

Until very recently, the major use, for gene therapy, specifically of linear or circular DNA, such as plasmids, was as ancillary products for viral vectors' production or as a genetic template for mRNA production. Thanks to targeted and more efficient physical or chemical delivery techniques and to the refinement of their structure, non-viral plasmid DNA are now under intensive consideration as pharmaceutical drugs. Plasmids traditionally carry an antibiotic resistance gene for providing the selection pressure necessary for maintenance in a bacterial host. Nearly a dozen different antibiotic-f

Assessment of pigmented skin lesions in terms of blood perfusion estimates.

The rising prevalence of vision-threatening eye diseases poses a major global health and economic burden, yet timely diagnosis remains limited by workforce shortages, diagnostic delays, and restricted access to specialized care. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers potential solutions. In particular, recent progress in foundation models and large language models-especially multimodal large language models (MLLMs)-has shown promise in medical image interpretation and automated clinical documentation. However, advancing MLLMs for ophthalmology is hindered by the lack of unified, comprehensive ben

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… Circulating cell-free nucleic acids are found in and can be easily extracted from different biological fluids [ 12 – 14 ], such as serum or plasma [ 15 ], urine [ 16 ], seminal plasma [ 17 ] and semen [ 18 ]. … In gynecological and obstetrical disorders, circulating cell free nucleic acids are considered to be potential biomarkers of female infertility [ 23 , 24 ]. …

Trials and Tribulations of MicroRNA Therapeutics.

The discovery of the link between microRNAs (miRNAs) and a myriad of human diseases, particularly various cancer types, has generated significant interest in exploring their potential as a novel class of drugs. This has led to substantial investments in interdisciplinary research fields such as biology, chemistry, and medical science for the development of miRNA-based therapies. Furthermore, the recent global success of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines against the COVID-19 pandemic has further revitalized interest in RNA-based immunotherapies, including miRNA-based approaches to cancer treatment. Cons

What Drives Innovation: The Canadian Touch on Liposomal Therapeutics.

Liposomes are considered one of the most successful drug delivery systems (DDS) given their established utility and success in the clinic. In the past 40⁻50 years, Canadian scientists have made ground-breaking discoveries, many of which were successfully translated to the clinic, leading to the formation of biotech companies, the creation of research tools, such as the Lipex Extruder and the NanoAssemblr™, as well as contributing significantly to the development of pharmaceutical products, such as Abelcet®, MyoCet®, Marqibo®, Vyxeos®, and Onpattro™, which are making positive impacts on patient

The use of RNA-based treatments in the field of cancer immunotherapy.

Over the past several decades, mRNA vaccines have evolved from a theoretical concept to a clinical reality. These vaccines offer several advantages over traditional vaccine techniques, including their high potency, rapid development, low-cost manufacturing, and safe administration. However, until recently, concerns over the instability and inefficient distribution of mRNA in vivo have limited their utility. Fortunately, recent technological advancements have mostly resolved these concerns, resulting in the development of numerous mRNA vaccination platforms for infectious diseases and various t

Восстановление ТРНС последнего универсального общего пастора (Общества) на пути к восстановлению системы перевода Древних.

Реконструирование ансестральной последовательности (АСР) было использовано для изучения эволюции переводческой системы путем определения последовательности tRNA в "Last Archaeal Common Ancestor" (LACA), "Last Bacterial Common Ancestor" (LBCA) и "Last Universal Common Ansancestor" (LUCA), которые в наших предыдущих исследованиях назывались "Общество". Составное филогенетическое дерево, взятое из реконструированных последовательности ТРНА, выявило топологию, отличную от ранее выведенных аминоачил-тРНА синтетазы (АРС). Такая непоследовательность может отражать изменения в структурных особенностях

Структура-ориентированное исследование ДНК-аптамера, целевого PTK7, выявляет сложную 3D-составляющую, направляющую оптимизацию функции.

DNA аптамеры вышли в качестве новых молекулярных инструментов в терапевтической и диагностической медицине благодаря своей высокой аффинности и специфичности к белковым целям, что определяется их способностью сворачиваться в отличительные трехмерные (3D) структуры. Однако при проектировании и моделировании аптамеров часто игнорируются тонкие атомные взаимодействия, формирующие 3D структуры, что приводит к неэффективной оптимизации функциональных свойств. Проблемы сохраняются при определении высокоразрешающих структур комплексов аптамер-белок. Кроме того, экспериментально определенные 3D структ

From Selection to Use: Aptamers as Targeting Reagents in Hematology.

Aptamers are synthetic nucleic acid ligands that have been proposed as alternatives to antibodies for targeting molecules and cells. In hematology, most reviews have organized aptamer literature around diseases or technological platforms. This framing has obscured how unevenly different blood cell types have been covered. In this review, we present developed aptamers organized by blood cell lineages. Specifically, we examine aptamers for B cells, T cells, natural killer cells, and red blood cells. This organization revealed a strong concentration on a small set of canonical surface markers and

The Application of Aptamer and Research Progress in Liver Disease.

Aptamers, as a kind of small-molecule nucleic acid, have attracted much attention since their discovery. Compared with biological reagents such as antibodies, aptamers have the advantages of small molecular weight, low immunogenicity, low cost, and easy modification. At present, aptamers are mainly used in disease biomarker discovery, disease diagnosis, treatment, and targeted drug delivery vectors. In the process of screening and optimizing aptamers, it is found that there are still many problems need to be solved such as the design of the library, optimization of screening conditions, the tr

Stage-specific treatment of colorectal cancer: A microRNA-nanocomposite approach.

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is among the leading causes of cancer mortality. The lifetime risk of developing CRC is about 5% in adult males and females. CRC is usually diagnosed at an advanced stage, and at this point therapy has a limited impact on cure rates and long-term survival. Novel and/or improved CRC therapeutic options are needed. The involvement of microRNAs (miRNAs) in cancer development has been reported, and their regulation in many oncogenic pathways suggests their potent tumor suppressor action. Although miRNAs provide a promising therapeutic approach for cancer, challenges such as

Aptamers: Potential Diagnostic and Therapeutic Agents for Blood Diseases.

Aptamers are RNA/DNA oligonucleotide molecules that specifically bind to a targeted complementary molecule. As potential recognition elements with promising diagnostic and therapeutic applications, aptamers, such as monoclonal antibodies, could provide many treatment and diagnostic options for blood diseases. Aptamers present several superior features over antibodies, including a simple in vitro selection and production, ease of modification and conjugation, high stability, and low immunogenicity. Emerging as promising alternatives to antibodies, aptamers could overcome the present limitations

Antibody and aptamer-based therapies for osteoarthritis: Application of antibodies and promise of aptamers.

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common degenerative inflammatory joint disease with progressive loss of articular cartilage that undermines patients' quality of life. There are no regulatory-approved, disease-modifying OA medications, despite a great deal of studies done to elucidate OA pathogenesis. Until now, OA pharmacological treatment focused mainly on generalized inhibition of inflammation and pain. Currently, monoclonal antibodies and nucleic-acid aptamers emerge as targeted therapies offering potential alternatives by addressing the complex challenges posed by OA, such as specifically reducin