supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.32000462 to Fei Qi,Grant No.32170619 to Philipp Kapranov;and Grant No.32201055 to Yue Chen);the Research Fund for International Senior Scientists from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.32150710525 to Philipp Kapranov);the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province,China(Grant No.2020J02006 to Philipp Kapranov);the Scientific Research Funds of Huaqiao University,China(Grant No.22BS114 to Fei Qi,Grant No.21BS127 to Yue Chen,and Grant No.15BS101 to Philipp Kapranov).
Accurate identification of the correct,biologically relevant RNA structures is critical to understanding various aspects of RNA biology since proper folding represents the key to the functionality of all types of RNA ...
Double-stranded RNA-mediated interference (RNAi), antisense oligonucleotides (ASO), and ribozymes have excellent specificity to their target oncogenic mRNA. They also seem to show great promise when it comes to treati...
The structural flexibility of RNA and its ability to store genetic information has led scientists to postulate that RNA could be the key molecule for the development of life on Earth, further leading to formulate the ...
supported by a National Transgenic Science and Technology Program (2016ZX08010002)to R.W.;a startup fund from the Huazhong Agricultural University
Development of tools for targeted modifications of specific DNA sequences in plants is of great importance to basic plant biology research as well as crop improvement.The ability to cut DNA at specific locations in th...
Ribozymes are widespread, and catalyze some extremely important reactions in the cell. Mechanistically most fall into one of two classes, using either metal ions or general acid-base catalysis. The nucleolytic ribozym...
Recent reports show that many cellular RNAs are processed to form circular species that are relatively abundant and resistant to host nucleases.In some cases,such circles actually bind host microRNAs.Such depletion of...
The discovery that RNA can act as an enzyme led Thomas Cech to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and led immediately to the next wave of attempts to find an effective RNA-based therapy.The tantalizing idea that RNA enz...
This work was supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.30370776);the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(36703,021162 and 000718)
Seven sequence-specific ribozymes(M1GS RNAs)derived in vitro from the catalytic RNA subunit of Escherichia coli RNase P and targeting the mRNAs transcribed by the UL54 gene encoding the DNA polymerase of human cytomeg...
National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 39670330).
Objective: To investigate the in vitro cleavage ability and effects on apoptosis and cell growth of the bcr-abl fusion gene specific multi-unit ribozymes. Methods: Three fusion point specific ribozymes were designed ...