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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 145, Issue 47, Pages 25789-25796Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c09497
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This study presents a single-round screening approach for aptamer discovery, using function-enhancing chemotypes to increase the distribution of high-affinity sequences in a random-sequence library. The study demonstrates the successful de novo discovery of aptamers against the receptor binding domain of the S1 protein from SARS-CoV-2, with binding affinity values comparable to those produced by conventional methods.
In vitro evolution strategies have been used for >30 years to generate nucleic acid aptamers against therapeutic targets of interest, including disease-associated proteins. However, this process requires many iterative cycles of selection and amplification, which severely restricts the number of target and library design combinations that can be explored in parallel. Here, we describe a single-round screening approach to aptamer discovery that relies on function-enhancing chemotypes to increase the distribution of high-affinity sequences in a random-sequence library. We demonstrate the success of de novo discovery by affinity selection of threomers against the receptor binding domain of the S1 protein from SARS-CoV-2. Detailed biochemical characterization of the enriched population identified threomers with binding affinity values that are comparable to aptamers produced by conventional SELEX. This work establishes a highly parallelizable path for querying diverse chemical repertoires and may offer a viable route for accelerating the discovery of therapeutic aptamers.
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