PubReading [142] - Artificial nucleic acid backbones and their applications in therapeutics, synthetic biology and biotechnology - S. Epple, A. El-Sagheer and T. Brown

The modification of DNA or RNA backbones is an emerging technology for therapeutic oligonucleotides, synthetic biology and biotechnology. Despite a plethora of reported arti- ficial backbones, their vast potential is not fully utilised. Limited synthetic accessibility remains a major bottleneck for the wider application of backbone-modified oligonucleo- tides. Thus, a variety of readily accessible artificial backbones and robust methods for their introduction into oligonucleotides are urgently needed to utilise their full potential in therapeutics, synthetic biology and biotechnology.doi.org/10.1042/ETLS20210169 - 2021