Preparation of a Conditional RNA Switch.

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Zakrevsky, Paul

Parlea, Lorena

Viard, Mathias

Bindewald, Eckart

Afonin, Kirill A

Shapiro, Bruce
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RNA Structure and Design Section, RNA Biology Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD, 21702, USA., RNA Structure and Design Section, RNA Biology Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD, 21702, USA., Leidos Biomedical Research Inc., Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD, USA., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Leidos Biomedical Research, Frederick, MD, USA., Nanoscale Science Program, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, 28223, USA., The Center for Biomedical Engineering and Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, 28223, USA., RNA Structure and Design Section, RNA Biology Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD, 21702, USA. shapirbr@mail.nih.gov.,

Abstract:

RNA has gained great interest for use in biomedical and therapeutic applications. This is due in part to RNA 39;s ability to perform multiple functions, including the regulation of endogenously expressed genes. However, the ability of RNA based drugs to distinguish target diseased cells from healthy tissue remains challenging. Here we present methods for the production of a recently developed conditional RNA switch that releases a Dicer substrate RNA in response to interaction with a specific RNA biomarker.

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