DNA-Based Synthetic Growth Factor Surrogates with Fine-Tuned Agonism*.
2021
Designing synthetic surrogates of functional proteins is an important, albeit challenging, task in the field of chemistry. A strategy toward the design of synthetic agonists for growth factor or cytokine receptors that elicit a desired signal activity has been in high demand, as such ligands hold great promise as safer and more effective therapeutics. In the present study, we used a DNA aptamer as a building block and described the strategy-guided design of a synthetic receptor agonist with fine-tuned agonism. The developed synthetic partial agonist can regulate therapeutically relevant cellular activities by eliciting fine-tuned receptor signaling.
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