Download or read book Aptamers in Biotechnology written by Katharina Urmann and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews the development, characterization and applications of aptamers in different areas of biotechnology ranging from therapeutics to diagnostics and protein purification. Hailed as chemical antibodies, these single-stranded nucleic acid receptors were predicted to supersede antibodies in traditional assays, such as ELISA, within a short time. While this has yet to happen, readers will find in this book a deep insight into the progress of aptamer technology and a critical discussion about the limitations that need to be overcome in order to find wider acceptance and use outside of the still relatively small aptamer-community. This book covers all aspects of aptamer generation and application for the aptamer-experienced reader and curious novice alike, with the addition of an industry perspective on the future of aptamer-use in biotechnology.
Download or read book Aptamers written by Gulab Singh Yadav and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses the basics of aptamers and the advent of aptamer-based technology in recent times. The book covers the diverse applications of aptamers, such as in detection of animal and plant pathogens, disease diagnosis and therapeutics, environmental contamination detection etc. Besides these applications, the book also describes the use of these synthetic or modified DNA, as drug delivery vehicles. The different chapters describe how the binding capacity and specificity of aptamers can be exploited in various ways. The book also discusses how these attributes of aptamers can outdo the antibody technology in biomedical and diagnostic solutions. This crisp and concise book gives the readers an insight into the most recent biotechnological applications of aptamers.
Download or read book Aptamers Selected by Cell SELEX for Theranostics written by Weihong Tan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume describes cell-SELEX as the fundamental tool used to generate aptamer molecules for a wide range of applications in molecular medicine, bioanalysis and chemical biology. Easily integrated into the natural heterogeneous cell matrix, aptamers can be effectively used in theranostics, bioanalysis, environment detection and biomedical studies. The book gathers reviews that reflect the latest advances in the field of aptamers and consists in fourteen chapters demonstrating essential examples of these aptamers and aptamer-nanomaterial assemblies, depending on the types of applications and biological systems. It also includes a separate chapter on the utilization of aptamers in real clinics and what will be required to achieve this significant goal. The book will be both appealing and useful to a broad audience, including biologists, bioscientists, and clinicians whose interests range from chemistry and biomedical engineering to cell and molecular biology and biotechnology. Weihong Tan is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering at Hunan University, China and also a University of Florida Distinguished Professor and V.T. and Louis Jackson Professor of Chemistry at the University of Florida, USA. Xiaohong Fang is a Professor at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
Download or read book Biosensors Based on Aptamers and Enzymes written by Man Bock Gu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes are organized topically and provide a comprehensive discussion of developments in the respective field over the past 3-5 years. The series also discusses new discoveries and applications. Special volumes are dedicated to selected topics which focus on new biotechnological products and new processes for their synthesis and purification. In general, special volumes are edited by well-known guest editors. The series editor and publisher will however always be pleased to receive suggestions and supplementary information. Manuscripts are accepted in English.
Download or read book Nucleic Acid Aptamers written by Günter Mayer and published by Humana. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides protocol references covering recent developments in the aptamer field. Within the last decade, aptamers have become more and more popular, and their sophisticated biophysical properties together with their ability to be easily modified and, thus, adapted to various regimens makes them a very promising class of compounds. Divided into three sections, the book covers selection, a series of analytical methods to assess biophysical properties of aptamer-target interactions, as well as various applications of aptamers. Written for the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Practical and easy to follow, Nucleic Acid Aptamers: Selection, Characterization, and Application provides a state-of-the-art summary of recent developments in the aptamer field and will be a helpful resource for scientists in the life sciences working with aptamers as tools to elucidate biological systems.
Download or read book Combinatorial Chemistry in Biology written by Michael Famulok and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essence of combinatorial chemistry or techniques involving "molecular diversity" is to generate enormous populations of molecules and to exploit appropriate screening techniques to isolate active components contained in these libraries. This idea has been the focus of research both in academia and in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry. Its developments go hand in hand with an exploding number of potential drug targets emerging from genomics and proteomics research. When the editors of Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology encouraged us to assemble the present volume on Combinatorial Chemistry in Biology, we immediately felt that this might prove quite beneficial for the audience of this series. The field of combinatorial chemistry extends over a broad range of disciplines, from synthetic organic chemistry to biochemistry, from material sciences to cell biology. Each of these fields may have its own view on this topic, something which is reflected in a growing number of monographs and "special editions" of jour nals devoted to this issue or aspects thereof. The title of the present volume of Springer-Verlag's series suggests that it also has its own special focus. And, generally speaking, this is not wrong: we would even claim the special focus of this volume is on the immunologically relevant aspects of combinatorial chemistry.
Download or read book Aptamers written by Rakesh N. Veedu and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aptamers, often termed as ‘chemical antibodies,’ are an emerging class of synthetic ligands for efficient target-specific molecular recognition. The objective of this book is to highlight recent advances and potential of aptamers in various disease conditions. . This book focuses on the applications of aptamers in targeted nanotherapy, detection, and in molecular imaging in various disease conditions such as cancer, neurological diseases and infectious diseases.
Download or read book Nucleic Acid Aptamers written by Günter Mayer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated book reflects improvements in a variety of techniques used to study the aptamer field. Beginning with a section on selection procedures, the volume continues with methods to characterize aptamers’ interaction and structural properties by biophysical approaches, as well as a variety of applications that have been adapted to the aptamer compound class. Written for the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step and readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Authoritative and up-to-date, Nucleic Acid Aptamers: Selection, Characterization, and Application, Second Edition serves as an ideal guide for researchers aiming to further our understanding of aptamer biology and more.
Download or read book Aptamers for Medical Applications written by Yiyang Dong and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines comprehensively the main medical uses of aptamers, from diagnosis to therapeutics in fourteen chapters. Pioneering topics covered include aptamer pharmaceuticals, aptamers for malign tumors, aptamers for personalized therapeutics and aptamers for point-of-care testing. The book offers an essential guide for medical scientists interested in developing aptamer-based schemes for better theranostics. It is therefore of interest for not only academic researchers, but also practitioners and medical researchers in various fields of medical science, medical research and bio-analytical chemistry.
Download or read book Aptamers in Bioanalysis written by M. Mascini and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to detail bioanalytical technologies and methods that have been developed using aptamers in analytical, medical, environmental, and food science applications. After an introduction to aptamers, aptamer targets, and their general uses, it discusses different applications with particular attention to the comparison between aptamer-based biosensors and methods versus the corresponding immunosensors. Examples of aptamer-based diagnostic techniques include whole-cell protein profiling (proteomics) and medical diagnostics for the distinction of diseased versus healthy states. This is a core reference for analytical chemists, electrochemists, pharmaceutical/medicinal chemists, biotechnologists, and others.
Download or read book The Aptamer Handbook written by Sven Klussmann and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-08-21 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Aptamer Handbook, leading scientists from academia as well as biotech and pharma companies introduce the revolutionary concept of designing RNA and DNA oligonucleotides with novel functions by in vitro selection. These functions comprise high affinity binding (aptamers), catalytic activity (ribozymes and deoxyribozymes) or combinations of binding and catalytic properties (aptazymes). Basic concepts and technologies describing in detail how these functional oligonucleotides can be identified are presented. Numerous examples demonstrate the versatility of in vitro selected oligonucleotides. Special emphasis has been put on a section that shows the broad applicability of aptamers, e. g. in target validation, for analytics, or as new therapeutics. This first overview in the field is of prime interest for a broad audience of scientists both in academia and in industry who wish to expand their knowledge on the potential of new oligonucleotide functions and their applications.
Download or read book Development of RNA Aptamers Through Supervised Learning and Capture SELEX Strategy written by Neel Arvind Shah and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aptamers are small oligonucleotides that are capable of binding specifically to a target, with impressive potential for analysis, diagnostics, and therapeutics applications. Aptamers are selected in vitro from large nucleic acid combinatorial libraries using an iterative selection process called SELEX (Systematic Evolution of Ligands by EXponential enrichment). In vitro selected RNA aptamers can be assembled into programmable biosensors for a broad range of synthetic biology applications requiring the detection and quantification of small molecule metabolites. Aptamers have been around for three decades now, however, sensors that work in proof-of-concept studies, mainly performed in academia, do not necessarily match the conditions, the statistical relevance, the compatibility with routine equipment found in e.g., clinical diagnostic departments, and the scale required for an industrial and/or clinical application. A major obstacle to the broader development of aptamer metabolite biosensors as tools for industrial biotechnology and translational medicine stems from uncertainty in the outcomes of in vitro selection and the aptamer-ligand binding affinities that can be obtained. We present, to our knowledge, the first approach for a priori estimation of RNA aptamer binding affinities and a virtual screening tool against small molecule targets. We illustrate the generalizability of this tool to identifyin silico metabolites and biomarkers that could be targeted with aptamer biosensing. Further, we outline an RNA Capture-SELEX strategy to generate in vitro structure switching aptamers which could be incorporated into genetic switches for regulating gene expression; since in classical SELEX only binding and not conformational changes are selected which is an important property of 'sensing-actuation' devices that represent an important class of genetic devices which can detect, report on and act on environmental and intracellular signals, including small molecules and proteins, to study and control cellular functions.
Download or read book Aptamers for Analytical Applications written by Yiyang Dong and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential guide that puts the focus on method developments and applications in aptamers In recent years, aptamer-based systems have been developed for a wide-range of analytical and medical applications. Aptamers for Analytical Applications offers an introduction to the topic, outlines the common protocols for aptamer synthesis, as well as providing information on the different optimization strategies that can obtain higher affinities to target molecules. The contributors?noted experts on the topic?provide an in-depth review of the characterization of aptamer-target molecule interaction and immobilization strategies and discuss the developments of methods for all the relevant applications. The book outlines different schemes to efficiently immobilize aptamers on substrates as well as summarizing the characterization methods for aptamer-ligand complexes. In addition, aptamer-based colorimetric, enzyme-linked, fluorescent, electrochemical, lateral flow and non-labeling analytical methods are presented. The book also reflects state-of-the-art and emerging applications of aptamer-based methods. This important resource: -Provides a guide to aptamers which provide highly specific and sensitive molecular recognition, with affinities in the range of antibodies and are much cheaper to produce -Offers a discussion of the analytical method developments and improvements with established systems and beyond -Offers a comprehensive guide to all the relevant application areas -Presents an authoritative book from contributors who are noted experts in the field Written for analytical chemists, biochemists, analytical researchers, Aptamers for Analytical Applications is a comprehensive book that adopts a methodological point of view to the important aspects of aptamer generation and modification with a strong emphasis on method developments for relevant applications.
Download or read book Advances in Nucleic Acid Therapeutics written by Michael J Gait and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sequencing of the human genome and subsequent elucidation of the molecular pathways that are important in the pathology of disease have provided unprecedented opportunities for the development of new therapeutics. Nucleic acid-based drugs have emerged in recent years to yield extremely promising candidates for drug therapy to a wide range of diseases. Advances in Nucleic Acid Therapeutics is a comprehensive review of the latest advances in the field, covering the background of the development of nucleic acids for therapeutic purposes to the array of drug development approaches currently being pursued using antisense, RNAi, aptamer, immune modulatory and other synthetic oligonucleotides. Nucleic acid therapeutics is a field that has been continually innovating to meet the challenges of drug discovery and development; bringing contributions together from leaders at the forefront of progress, this book depicts the many approaches currently being pursued in both academia and industry. A go-to volume for medicinal chemists, Advances in Nucleic Acid Therapeutics provides a broad overview of techniques of contemporary interest in drug discovery.
Download or read book Advances in Biotechnology and the Biosciences for Warfighter Performance and Protection Anti Aptamers for Revenom written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This effort was focused on developing a novel, aptamer-based antivenin for treatment of envenomation by the Kurdistan Viper (Vipera raddei kurdistanica). The research was conducted to provide evidence to prove whether a synthetic, aptamer-based antivenin could be developed to treat snake envenomations in humans. Using PLA2 from Crotalus durissus terrificus venom as a simulant of the Kurdistan viper venom, two tissue culture cell lines were examined and developed for in vitro cell culture models. For each cell line, an LD50 value was determined post PLA2 exposure at various concentrations. Cytotoxicity activity was determined by utilizing an XTT colorimetric assay. DNA aptamers developed against the PLA2 were tested in these in vitro models, along with known PLA2 inhibitors. Inhibitors were tested for their effectiveness against these LD50 values for each cell line. However, in these assays, known LD50 values for PLA2 did not prove to be toxic to the cells themselves. Higher concentrations of PLA2, were also ineffective in killing cells the effectiveness of the inhibitor's ability to decrease PLA2 activity, thereby preventing toxicity to cells, could not be determined. Additionally, no determination was able to be made on the efficacy of the aptamers.
Download or read book Aptamer Biotechnology written by Pui Man Irene Lau and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aptamers in Bioanalysis written by M. Mascini and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to detail bioanalytical technologies and methods that have been developed using aptamers in analytical, medical, environmental, and food science applications. After an introduction to aptamers, aptamer targets, and their general uses, it discusses different applications with particular attention to the comparison between aptamer-based biosensors and methods versus the corresponding immunosensors. Examples of aptamer-based diagnostic techniques include whole-cell protein profiling (proteomics) and medical diagnostics for the distinction of diseased versus healthy states. This is a core reference for analytical chemists, electrochemists, pharmaceutical/medicinal chemists, biotechnologists, and others.
