Technology
Applications of Aptamer
Aptamers can be used as sensing tools:
- Small chemical. (Bioorg Med Chem. 2001, 9(10), pp 2549-56).
- Protein biomarker. (Anal Chem, 2009, 81(15), pp 6130-9).
- Pathogen. (Sci Rep. 2013, 3, 1863).
Aptamers can be used as drug carrier:
- Anti-cancer drug (Angew Chem Int Ed Engl, 2006, 45(48), pp 8149-52).
- siRNA (Nat Biotechnol, 2009, 27(9), pp 839-49).
- DNAzyme (Mol Cancer Ther, 2008, 7(2), pp 243-51).
- Liposome (Angew Chem Int Ed Engl, 2009, 48(35), pp 6494-8).
Aptamers can be used as receptor and gene expression modulator:
- Agonistic aptamer (J Clin Invest, 2008, 118(1), pp 376-86).
- Antagonistic aptamer (FASEB J , 2009, 23(9), pp 3078-88).
- Riboswitch (Nature Biotechnology , 2005, 23, pp 306 – 307)