PubReading [142] - Artificial nucleic acid backbones and their applications in therapeutics, synthetic biology and biotechnology - S. Epple, A. El-Sagheer and T. Brown

PubReading

English - June 09, 2022 20:00 - 13 minutes - 24 MB
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The modification of DNA or RNA backbones is an emerging technology for therapeutic oligonucleotides, synthetic biology and biotechnology. Despite a plethora of reported arti- ficial backbones, their vast potential is not fully utilised. Limited synthetic accessibility remains a major bottleneck for the wider application of backbone-modified oligonucleo- tides. Thus, a variety of readily accessible artificial backbones and robust methods for their introduction into oligonucleotides are urgently needed to utilise their full potential in therapeutics, synthetic biology and biotechnology.

doi.org/10.1042/ETLS20210169 - 2021