CRISPR-engineered T cells in patients with refractory cancer
Stadtmauer EA, Fraietta JA, Davis MM, Cohen AD, Weber KL, Lancaster E, Mangan PA, Kulikovskaya I, Gupta M, Chen F, Tian L, Gonzalez VE, Xu J, Jung IY, Melenhorst JJ, Plesa G, Shea J, Matlawski T, Cervini A, Gaymon AL, Desjardins S, Lamontagne A, Salas-Mckee ...
Evaluation and minimization of Cas9-independent off-target DNA editing by cytosine base editors
Doman JL, Raguram A, Newby GA, Liu DR. Nat Biotechnol. 2020 Feb 10. PubMed
Confluence of theory and experiment reveals the catalytic mechanism of the Varkud satellite ribozyme
Ganguly A, Weissman BP, Giese TJ, Li NS, Hoshika S, Rao S, Benner SA, Piccirilli JA, York DM. Nat Chem. 2020 Feb;12(2):193-201. PubMed
High-throughput identification of synthetic riboswitches by barcode-free amplicon-sequencing in human cells
Strobel B, Spöring M, Klein H, Blazevic D, Rust W, Sayols S, Hartig JS, Kreuz S. Nat Commun. 2020 Feb 5;11(1):714. PubMed
Impact of Phosphorothioate Chirality on Double-Stranded siRNAs: A Systematic Evaluation of Stereopure siRNA Designs
Sakamuri S, Eltepu L, Liu D, Lam S, Meade BR, Liu B, Dello Iacono G, Kabakibi A, Luukkonen L, Leedom T, Foster M, Bradshaw CW. Chembiochem. 2019 Dec 21. PubMed
Naturally-occurring cholesterol analogues in lipid nanoparticles induce polymorphic shape and enhance intracellular delivery of mRNA
Patel S, Ashwanikumar N, Robinson E, Xia Y, Mihai C, Griffith JP 3rd, Hou S, Esposito AA, Ketova T, Welsher K, Joyal JL, Almarsson Ă–, Sahay G. Nat Commun. 2020 Feb 20;11(1):983. PubMed
Selective targeting of nanomedicine to inflamed cerebral vasculature to enhance the blood-brain barrier
Marcos-Contreras OA, Greineder CF, Kiseleva RY, Parhiz H, Walsh LR, Zuluaga-Ramirez V, Myerson JW, Hood ED, Villa CH, Tombacz I, Pardi N, Seliga A, Mui BL, Tam YK, Glassman PM, Shuvaev VV, Nong J, Brenner JS, Khoshnejad M, Madden T, Weissmann D, Persidsky Y, Muzykantov ...
Low-dose metronomic cyclophosphamide complements the actions of an intratumoral C-class CpG TLR9 agonist to potentiate innate immunity and drive potent T cell-mediated anti-tumor responses
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Regulation of gene expression by cis-acting long non-coding RNAs
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January 2020 Joint Papers of the Month
Directed RNase H Cleavage of Nascent Transcripts Causes Transcription Termination Lai F, Damle SS, Ling KK, Rigo F. Mol Cell. 2020 Jan 3. pii: S1097-2765(19)30959-1. Joint First Authors Antisense-Mediated Transcript Knockdown Triggers Premature Transcription Termination. Lee JS, Mendell JT. Mol ...