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Table of Contents...
Contributing Authors...
1. 1. A New Method to Predict Ion Effects in RNA Folding Li-Zhen Sun and Shi-Jie Chen
2. Computational Generation of RNA Nanorings
Rishabh Sharan, Eckart Bindewald, Wojciech Kasprzak, and Bruce A. Shapiro 3. Protocols for Molecular Dynamics Simulations of RNA Nanostructures
Taejin Kim, Wojciech K. Kasprzak, and Bruce A. Shapiro 4. Rolling Circle Transcription for the Self-Assembly of Multimeric RNAi Structures and its Applications in Nanomedicine
Mihue Jang and Hyung Jun Ahn
5. Computational Prediction of the Immunomodulatory Potential of RNA Sequences
Gandharva Nagpal, Kumardeep Chaudhary, Sandeep Kumar Dhanda, and Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava
6. Co-Transcriptional Production of Chemically Modified RNA Nanoparticles
Maria L. Kireeva, Kirill A. Afonin, Bruce A. Shapiro, and Mikhail Kashlev 7. Supported Fluid Lipid Bilayer as a Scaffold to Direct Assembly of RNA Nanostructures
Aleksandra P. Dabkowska, Agnes Michanek, Luc Jaeger, Arkadiusz Chworos, Tommy Nylandera and Emma Sparr
8. Evaluation of Thermal Stability of RNA Nanoparticles by Temperature Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (TGGE) in Native Condition
Kheiria Benkato, Ben O'Brien, My N. Bui, Daniel Jasinski, Peixuan Guo, and Emil F. Khisamutdinov
9. Design and Crystallography of Self-Assembling RNA Nanostructures
Mark A. Boerneke and Thomas Hermann
10. X-Aptamer Selection and Validation
Ganesh L. Lokesh, Hongyu Wang, Curtis H. Lam, Varatharasa Thiviyanathan, Nancy Ward, David G. Gorenstein and David E. Volk
11. Design and Preparation of Aptamer-siRNA Chimeras (AsiCs) for Targeted Cancer Therapy
Sven Kruspe and Paloma H. Giangrande
12. Cellular Delivery of siRNAs using Bolaamphiphiles
Kshitij Gupta
13. Preparation and Optimization of Lipid-Like Nanoparticles for mRNA Delivery
Bin Li and Yizhou Dong 14. Chitosan Nanoparticles for miRNA Delivery
Merve Denizli, Burcu Aslan, Lingegowda S. Mangala, Dahai Jiang, Cristian Rodriguez-Aguayo, Gabriel Lopez-Berestein, and Anil K. Sood
15. Synthesis of PLGA/Lipid Hybrid Nanoparticles for siRNA Delivery using the Emulsion Method PLGA-PEG/Lipid Nanoparticles for siRNA Delivery
Lei Wang, Benjamin Griffel, and Xiaoyang Xu
16. Oxime Ether Lipids as Transfection Agents: Assembly and Complexation with siRNA
Anu Puri, Serena Zampino, Mathias Viard, and Bruce A. Shapiro 17. Polycationic Probe-Guided Nanopore Single-Molecule Counter for Selective miRNA Detection
Kai Tian, Ruicheng Shi, and Li-Qun Gu 18. Intracellular Re-Association of RNA-DNA Hybrids that Activates RNAi in HIV-Infected Cells
Angelica N. Martins, Weina Ke, Vaishnavi Jawahar, Morriah Striplin, Caryn Striplin, Eric O. Freed, And Kirill A. Afonin
19. Construction and In Vivo Testing of Prokaryotic Riboregulators
Alexander A. Green 20. Preparation of a Conditional RNA Switch
Paul Zakrevsky, Lorena Parlea, Eckart Bindewald, Kirill A. Afonin, and Bruce A. Shapiro 21. Rational Engineering of a Modular Group I Ribozyme to Control its Activity by Self-Dimerization
Takahiro Tanaka, Yoshiya Ikawa, and Shigeyoshi Matsumura 22. CRISPR-Cas RNA Scaffolds for Transcriptional Programming in Yeast
Jesse G. Zalatan 23. Using Planar Phi29 pRNA Three-Way Junction to Control Size and Shape of RNA Nanoparticles for Biodistribution Profiling in Mice
Farzin Haque, Congcong Xu, Daniel L. Jasinski, Hui Li, and Peixuan Guo
