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A Method for Selecting Structure-switching Aptamers Applied to a Colorimetric Gold Nanoparticle Assay
Published on: February 28, 2015
In vitro selection of RNA aptamers to a small molecule target
Sulay Jhaveri1, Andrew Ellington
1Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA.
Current Protocols in Nucleic Acid Chemistry
|April 23, 2008
Abstract:
This unit describes the selection of aptamers that bind to a small molecule target from a single-stranded RNA pool. Aptamers generated from this type of selection experiment can potentially function as receptors for small molecules for applications ranging from medical diagnostics to environmental monitoring. This unit describes two modes of selection, one by column filtration and one by batch selection.

