Pietruschka, Georg: Selection of an aptamer and development of a genetic device to control mRNA stability in response to light. - Bonn, 2022. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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urn: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5-65514,
author = {{Georg Pietruschka}},
title = {Selection of an aptamer and development of a genetic device to control mRNA stability in response to light},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2022,
month = feb,

note = {Artificial autocatalytic RNA molecules, so-called aptazymes, are utilized as genetic devices to study and influence biological processes. These genetic devices consist of the autocatalytic RNA part, the ribozyme, and a ligand-sensing part, called aptamer. Most of these devices use small molecule ligands as a trigger to regulate the cleavage activity of the aptazyme. However, the utility of small molecules has some limitations such as potential side effects, lack of reversibility as well as limited spatial and temporal control. In contrast, visible light as a trigger has the advantage of being reversible, non-harmful, and spatially and temporally controllable. Ribozymes per se, however, have no intrinsic ability to sense light. But in the field of optogenetics, proteins with LOV domains act as light-sensitive sensors. Herein, optogenetics was combined with aptamer technology to develop a genetic device capable of regulating mRNA stability in response to light. In a rational design approach, an aptamer that can bind the LOV protein PAL was fused to the hammerhead ribozyme. The aptazyme exhibited light-dependent cleavage activity, which could be modulated by varying the stem length of the introduced aptamer. This concept created aptazymes that exhibited decreased or increased cleavage activity in the presence of light. This discovery paves the way for the utilization of this system in the field of synthetic biology or basic research.},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/9607}
}

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