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In vitro selection of a photoresponsive RNA aptamer to hemin
Mingzhe Liu1, Hiroshi Jinmei, Hiroshi Abe
1Nano Medical Engineering Laboratory, RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-Shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
|March 30, 2010
Abstract:
A photoresponsive RNA aptamer to hemin was selected in vitro from a random sequence library of RNAs with azobenzene residues. The aptamer bound to hemin under visible light irradiation and was released by ultraviolet light.

