Beilstein J. Nanotechnol.2015,6, 1338–1347, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.138
innovative biomedical strategies mainly in the field of anticancer therapy.
Keywords: nucleopeptides; poly(rA) binders; RNA; self-structures; Review
Polyadenylation in RNA processing
Polyadenylation is part of the RNA processing pathway that leads to the production of mature mRNA molecules (Figure 1) [1
helix poly(rA) structures induced at low pH conditions.
Recent reports on poly(rA) binding activity of the plant alkaloid chelerythrine (Figure 3) indicated that this natural compound was also able to induce poly(rA) self-structures with the formation of a poly(rA) helix that showed a cooperative
other artificial compounds such as ethidium salts, quinacrine, and proflavine proved to be efficient binders of single-stranded poly(rA) capable of inducing self-structures of such RNA. This characteristic is absent in the compound Hoechst 33258 that acts as a poly(rA) binder, but is unable to provoke
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Figure 1:
Schematic representation of transcription and translation–initiation processes in eukaryotic cells....