RNA Technologies

RNA as Major Components in Chemical Evolvable Systems - Peter Strazewski How the Early Genetic Code Was Established? -Inference from the Analysis of Extant Animal Mitochondrial Decoding Systems - Kimitsuna Watanabe and Shin-ichi Yokobori Isomerization of RNA Phosphodiester Linkages - Harri Lonnberg Effects of Ionic Liquid and Liposomes on the Structure, Stability, and Function of Nucleic Acids - Naoki Sugimoto Oxidative Damage on RNA Nucleobases - Pascal A. Kupfer and Christian J. Leumann Use of FRET to Study Dynamics of DNA Replication - Philip Nevin and Penny J. Beuning Design, Characterization, and Application of Imidazopyridopyrimidine:Naphthyridine Base-Pairing Motifs Consisting of Four Hydrogen Bonds - Noriaki Minakawa and Akira Matsuda Creation of Unnatural Base Pair Systems Toward New DNA/RNA Biotechnologies - Michiko Kimoto and Ichiro Hirao Flexible Nucleobase Analogues. Novel Tools for Exploring the Nucleic Acids - Sarah C. Zimmermann and Katherine L. Seley-Radtke Sequence Selective Recognition of Double-Stranded RNA - Eriks Rozners Determining Transient Nucleic Acid Structures by NMR - Jeetender Chugh Diastereomer-Specific Repertoire of 7'R- or 7'S-Me-Carba-Locked Nucleic Acids (cLNAs) in Antisense Oligo/RNA Duplexes and Engineering of Physicochemical and Enzymological Properties - Qing Li, Oleksandr Plashkevych, Ram Shankar Upadhayaya, Sachin Gangadhar Deshpande, Andras Foldesi, and Jyoti Chattopadhyaya Challenges and Opportunities for Oligonucleotide-Based Therapeutics by Antisense and RNA Interference Mechanisms - Ramon Eritja, Montserrat Terrazas, Santiago Grijalvo, Anna Avino, Adele Alagia, Sonia Perez-Rentero, and Juan Carlos Morales Progress in Chemically Modified Nucleic Acid Aptamers - Masayasu Kuwahara Aptamers as Molecular Smugglers - Eileen Magbanua and Ulrich Hahn Biochemical Aspects of Subcellular RNA Transport and Localization - Diana Bauermeister, Maike Claussen, and Tomas Pieler Small Size, Big Impact: Bacterial Functional Nucleic Acids and Their Applications - Wendy W.K. Mok, Simon A. McManus, and Yingfu Li Towards Defined DNA and RNA Delivery Vehicles Using Nucleic Acid Nanotechnology - Anders Hauge Okholm, David Schaffert, and Jorgen Kjems Targeted Editing of Therapeutic Genes using DNA-Based Transcriptional Activators: Scope and Challenges - Ganesh N. Pandian and Hiroshi Sugiyama Interaction of DNA Intramolecular Structures with Their Complementary Strands: A Thermodynamic Approach for the Control of Gene Expression - Irine Khutsishvili, Sarah E. Johnson, Calliste Reiling, Istok Prislan, Hui-Ting Lee, and Luis A. Marky Site Directed Spin Labelling of RNA for Distance Measurements by EPR - Joachim W. Engels, Christian Grunewald, and Lena Wicke Chemo-Enzymatic Strategies to Modify RNA in vitro or in Living Cells - Daniela Schulz and Andrea Rentmeister Metal Dependence of Ligand Binding and Heavy-Atom Derivatization of Evolutionarily Distinct PreQ1 Riboswitches - Joseph E. Wedekind, Joseph A. Liberman, Jermaine L. Jenkins, and Mohammad Salim DNA G-Quadruplexes and I-Motifs in Therapeutics and Diagnostics - Yogini P. Bhavsar-Jog, Samantha M. Reilly, and Randy M. Wadkins Peptides Targeting G-Quadruplex Structures - Kenji Usui and Arisa Okada Synthesis of Site-Specifically Modified Long-Mer RNAs - Darko Balke, Jennifer Frommer, Nico Rublack, Danilo Springstubbe, Bettina Appel, and Sabine Muller Synthesis and Exon-Skipping Activity of Chemically-Modified RNAs - Yoshiaki Masaki, Takeshi Yamada, Hisao Saneyoshi, Akihiro Ohkubo, Kohji Seio, and Mitsuo Sekine mRNA and snRNA Cap Analogs: Synthesis and Applications - Janusz Stepinski and Edward Darzynkiewicz Innovative Chemistry for Synthesis of Regular RNA, 5'-Triphosphate RNA or 5'-Capped RNA - Yann Thillier, Francois Morvan, Jean-Jacques Vasseur and Francoise Debart.