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Applications of Aptamer

Aptamers can be used as sensing tools:

  1. Small chemical. (Bioorg Med Chem. 2001, 9(10), pp 2549-56).
  2. Protein biomarker. (Anal Chem, 2009, 81(15), pp 6130-9).
  3. Pathogen. (Sci Rep. 2013, 3, 1863).

Aptamers can be used as drug carrier:

  1. Anti-cancer drug (Angew Chem Int Ed Engl, 2006, 45(48), pp 8149-52).
  2. siRNA (Nat Biotechnol, 2009, 27(9), pp 839-49).
  3. DNAzyme (Mol Cancer Ther, 2008, 7(2), pp 243-51).
  4. Liposome (Angew Chem Int Ed Engl, 2009, 48(35), pp 6494-8).

Aptamers can be used as receptor and gene expression modulator:

  1. Agonistic aptamer (J Clin Invest, 2008, 118(1), pp 376-86).
  2. Antagonistic aptamer (FASEB J , 2009, 23(9), pp 3078-88).
  3. Riboswitch (Nature Biotechnology , 2005, 23, pp 306 – 307)