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High-affinity five/six-letter DNA aptamers with superior specificity enabling the detection of dengue NS1 protein variants beyond the serotype identification.
Nucleic acids research - 18 Nov 2021
Matsunaga Ken-Ichiro, Kimoto Michiko, Lim Vanessa Weixun, Tan Hui Pen, Wong Yu Qian, Sun William, Vasoo Shawn, Leo Yee Sin, Hirao Ichiro
Abstract excerpt
Genetic alphabet expansion of DNA by introducing unnatural bases (UBs), as a fifth letter, dramatically augments the affinities of DNA aptamers that bind to target proteins. To determine whether UB-containing DNA (UB-DNA) aptamers obtained by affinity selection could spontaneously achieve high specificity, we have generated a series of UB-DNA aptamers (KD: 27-182 pM) targeting each of four dengue non-structural...
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