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Title
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Therapeutic immunomodulation by rationally designed nucleic acids and nucleic acid nanoparticles
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Author
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Afonin, Kirill A., Marriott, Ian, Panigaj, Martin
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Nucleic acids, Chemistry
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Description
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The immune system has evolved to defend organisms against exogenous threats such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites by distinguishing between self and non-self. In addition, it guards us against other diseases, such as cancer, by detecting...
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Title
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The recognition of and reactions to nucleic acid nanoparticles by human immune cells
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Author
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Afonin, Kirill A., Bila, Dominika, Panigaj, Martin
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Nucleic acids, Chemistry
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Description
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The relatively straightforward methods of designing and assembling various functional nucleic acids into nanoparticles offer advantages for applications in diverse diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. However, due to the novelty of this approach...
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Title
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The immunorecognition, subcellular compartmentalization, and physicochemical properties of nucleic acid nanoparticles can be controlled by composition modification
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Author
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Johnson, M. Brittany, Halman, Justin, Marriott, Ian, Afonin, Kirill A., Miller, Daniel K., Cooper, Joseph S., Khisamutdinov, Emil F.
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Subjects--Topical
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Immunology, Nucleic acids, Nanoparticles
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Description
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Nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) have become powerful new platforms as therapeutic and diagnostic tools due to the innate biological ability of nucleic acids to identify target molecules or silence genes involved in disease pathways. However, th...
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Title
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Prevalence of alternative splicing choices in Arabidopsis thaliana
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Author
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Loraine, Ann, English, Adam C., Patel, Ketan S.
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Date Created
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2010
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Subjects--Topical
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Gene expression, Nucleic acids
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Description
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Background: Around 14% of protein-coding genes of Arabidopsis thaliana genes from the TAIR9 genome release are annotated as producing multiple transcript variants through alternative splicing. However, for most alternatively spliced genes in Arabi...
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Title
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Functionally-interdependent shape-switching nanoparticles with controllable properties
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Author
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Halman, Justin, Khisamutdinov, Emil F., Afonin, Kirill A., Satterwhite, Emily, Roark, Brandon, Chandler, Morgan, Ivanina, Anna, Viard, Mathias, Bindewald, Eckart, Kasprzak, Wojciech K., Panigaj, Martin, Bui, My N., Lu, Jacob S., Miller, Johann, Shapiro, Bruce A., Dobrovolskaia, Marina A.
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Subjects--Topical
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Nucleic acids, Nanotechnology
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Description
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We introduce a new concept that utilizes cognate nucleic acid nanoparticles which are fully complementary and functionally-interdependent to each other. In the described approach, the physical interaction between sets of designed nanoparticles ini...
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Title
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Functionally-interdependent shape-switching nanoparticles with controllable properties
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Author
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Afonin, Kirill A., Halman, Justin, Chandler, Morgan
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Nucleic acids, Chemistry
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Description
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We introduce a new concept that utilizes cognate nucleic acid nanoparticles which are fully complementary and functionally-interdependent to each other. In the described approach, the physical interaction between sets of designed nanoparticles ini...
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Title
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Exosome mediated delivery of functional nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs)
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Author
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Afonin, Kirill A., Ke, Weina
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Nucleic acids, Chemistry
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Description
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RNAi-based technologies have shown biomedical potential; however, safe and efficient delivery of RNA remains a barrier for their broader clinical applications. Nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) programmed to self-assemble and organize multiple th...