Peptide Nucleic Acids as a Tool for Site-Specific Gene Editing

Peptide Nucleic Acids as a Tool for Site-Specific Gene Editing.

Peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) can bind duplex DNA in a sequence-targeted manner, forming a triplex structure capable of inducing DNA repair and producing specific genome modifications. Since the first description of PNA-mediated gene editing in cell free extracts, PNAs have been used to successfully correct human disease-causing mutations in cell culture and in vivo in preclinical mouse models. ...

CRISPR/Cas9-loxP-Mediated Gene Editing as a Novel Site-Specific Genetic Manipulation Tool

Cre-loxP, as one of the site-specific genetic manipulation tools, offers a method to study the spatial and temporal regulation of gene expression/inactivation in order to decipher gene function. CRISPR/Cas9-mediated targeted genome engineering technologies are sparking a new revolution in biological research. Whether the traditional site-specific genetic manipulation tool and CRISPR/Cas9 could ...

NMR as a tool for structure determination of nucleic acids

Circulating Nucleic Acids as Diagnostic Tool

Circulating nucleic acids are present in small amounts in the plasma of healthy individuals. However the discovery of circulating nucleic acids has long been explored for the noninvasive diagnosis of a variety of clinical conditions. The first studies concerning the detection of circulating DNA were investigated for finding various forms of cancer. Metastasis and recurrence in certain tumour ty...

10. Circulating Nucleic Acids as Diagnostic Tool

Circulating nucleic acids are present in small amounts in the plasma of healthy individuals. However the discovery of circulating nucleic acids has long been explored for the noninvasive diagnosis of a variety of clinical conditions. The first studies concerning the detection of circulating DNA were investigated for finding various forms of cancer. Metastasis and recurrence in certain tumour ty...