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Analogue d'acide nucléique

Publications associées (29)

Ultraviolet Superradiance from Mega-Networks of Tryptophan in Biological Architectures

Majed Chergui, Katrin Elisabeth Oberhofer

Networks of tryptophan (Trp)& horbar;an aromatic amino acid with strong fluorescence response & horbar;are ubiquitous in biological systems, forming diverse architectures in transmembrane proteins, cytoskeletal filaments, subneuronal elements, photorecepto ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Novel cathepsin inhibitors

Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Elisa Oricchio, Aaron Simone Petruzzella

The present invention relates to a cathepsin inhibitor comprising or consisting of Formula (I) (X1)(X2)(X3)(X4)(Y)(X5)(X6)(X7) wherein (X1) is an amino acid selected from K, L, F and M; (X2) is an amino acid selected from L, A, D, E, F, G, H, I, K, M, N, S ...

2023

Cgas super-enzymes for cancer immunotherapy

Andrea Ablasser, Natasha Ella Samson, Alexander Scott Keller

The present invention relates to anti-tumor lymphocytes, and a variant cyclic GMP-AMP synthase (cGAS) carrying an amino acid substitution of one or both arginines at amino acid positions 255 and 236 and/or an amino acid substitution of one or both lysines ...

2023

Recycling of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Kits

Francesco Stellacci, Yong Zhu, Weina Liu

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) kits have been used as common diagnosing tools during the outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, with daily worldwide usage in the millions. It is well known that at the beginn ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Optimised set of oligonucleotides for bulk rna barcoding and sequencing

Bart Deplancke, Vincent Roland Julien Gardeux, Riccardo Dainese, Daniel Alpern

The present invention relates generally to the field of nucleic acid sequencing and provides oligonucleotide molecules and barcodes contained therein. These oligonucleotide molecules and barcodes molecules are useful in sequencing to identify and resolve e ...

2023

Landscapes of DNA Mechanics and Genomes

Thomas Antonin Zwahlen

The local physical properties - such as shape and flexibility - of the DNA double-helix is today widely believed to be influenced by nucleic acid sequence in a non-trivial way. Furthermore, there is strong evidence that these properties play a role in many ...

EPFL2023

Electronic readout of DNA amplification in nanoliter chambers. Strategies towards highly parallel semiconductor-based nucleic acid amplification testing

Saurabh Tomar

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has been the most significant driver in the field of nucleic acid testing (NAT) since its invention. Popularized as an abbreviation by the Covid-19 pandemic, PCR-based methods are the gold standard in the field of diagnostic ...

EPFL2023

Core-shell Structured Chitosan-polyethylenimine Nanoparticles for Gene Delivery: Improved Stability, Cellular Uptake, and Transfection Efficiency

Sandrine Gerber, Perrine Agnes Edith Robin, Laura Camille Louise Nicolle

Gene therapy emerged as a promising treatment option for acquired and inherited diseases. The delivery of nucleic acids relies on vectors that condense and encapsulate their cargo. Especially non-viral gene delivery systems are of increasing interest. Howe ...

2022

Electronic and structural dynamics in DNA single strands

Benjamin Bauer

The absorption, conversion and transport of electronic energy in molecular aggregates is at the heart of many important natural and artificial photochemical systems, including organic solar cell materials, photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes and DNA ...

EPFL2021

Regulation of cGAS- and RLR-mediated immunity to nucleic acids

Andrea Ablasser

Pathogen-derived nucleic acids are crucial signals for innate immunity. Despite the structural similarity between those and host nucleic acids, mammalian cells have been able to evolve powerful innate immune signaling pathways that originate from the detec ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Shear Stress-Responsive Polymersome Nanoreactors Inspired by the Marine Bioluminescence of Dinoflagellates

Esther Amstad, Antoine Claude Jean Vian

Some marine plankton called dinoflagellates emit light in response to the movement of surrounding water, resulting in a phenomenon called milky seas or sea sparkle. The underlying concept, a shear-stress induced permeabilisation of biocatalytic reaction co ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2021

Electronic Relaxation Dynamics of UV-Photoexcited 2-Aminopurine-Thymine Base Pairs in Watson-Crick and Hoogsteen Conformations

Rebecca Ann Ingle, Hugo Jean Baptiste Marroux

The fluorescent analogue 2-aminopurine (2AP) of the canonical nucleobase adenine (6-aminopurine) base-pairs with thymine (T) without disrupting the helical structure of DNA. It therefore finds frequent use in molecular biology for probing DNA and RNA struc ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Improving energy transfer efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cell by fine tuning of dye planarity

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt

Two push-pull metal-free sensitizers with 5,11-dihydroindolo[3,2-b]carbazole derivatives as electron-donating groups and 4-(benzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazol-4-ylethynyl)benzoic acid (BTZ) as electron-withdrawing unit, denoted by SK201 and SK202, were synthesized ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

A sequence-dependent coarse-grain model of B-DNA with explicit description of bases and phosphate groups parametrised from large scale Molecular Dynamics simulations

Alessandro Samuele Patelli

We introduce a sequence-dependent coarse-grain model of double-stranded DNA with an explicit description of both the bases and the phosphate groups as interacting rigid-bodies. The model parameters are trained on extensive, state-of-the-art large scale mol ...

EPFL2019

Xeno Nucleic Acid Nanosensors for Enhanced Stability Against Ion-Induced Perturbations

Ardemis Anoush Boghossian, Carlo Gigli, Alice Judith Gillen, Justyna Kupis-Rozmyslowicz

The omnipresence of salts in biofluids creates a pervasive challenge in designing sensors suitable for in vivo applications. Fluctuations in ion concentrations have been shown to affect the sensitivity and selectivity of optical sensors based on single-wal ...

2018

Development of cyclic peptide inhibitors of coagulation factor XII and matrix metalloproteinase 2

Jonas Alfred Karl Wilbs

Peptides represent a promising molecular class for drug development. They combine several strengths of small molecules (e.g. efficient tissue diffusion, low immunogenicity and access to chemical synthesis) and key properties of biologics such as monoclonal ...

EPFL2018

Nucleoside Analogues: Synthesis from Strained Rings

Jérôme Waser, Jérémy Vuilleumier, Sophie Lucie Racine

Nucleoside analogues are widely employed as bioactive compounds against cancer and viral infections. Consequently, it is important to develop efficient synthetic methods to access them with high efficiency and structural diversity. Herein, we present a ful ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2016

Microfluidic device and method for isolation of nucleic acids

Bart Deplancke, Alina Isakova

The present invention concerns a microfluidic device for mechanically induced trapping of molecular interactions comprising at least a first unit cell and a second unit cell, each unit cell comprising - a membrane chamber comprising a membrane, - a flow ch ...

2016

Development of Stapling Methods by Selective Side Chain Modifications of Bioactive Peptides

Christopher Matthew Bandeli Kourra

Cyclic peptide therapeutics fill the gap between small molecules (5000 Da) as a separate class of drugs, combining the advantages of both in terms of high selectivity, bioavailability, synthetic accessibility and low toxicity. Howe ...

EPFL2016

Lewis acid Catalyzed Annulations of Donor-Acceptor Aminocyclopropanes and Aminocyclobutanes

Sophie Lucie Racine

Organic molecules are indispensable have greatly contributed to the confort of our modern life. Nevertheless, humanity is facing now new challenges such as environmental issues and emerging drug resistances. In order to solve these major concerns, chemists ...

EPFL2016