Exploiting inosine as a distinctive cleavage site for deriving a highly specific RNA-cleaving DNAzyme
Most RNA-cleaving DNAzymes are limited to cleaving between combinations of the four canonical ribonucleotides. Through in vitro selection, we isolated ICD11-1T, a DNAzyme that selectively cleaves at inosine, a non-canonical RNA modification generated by adenosine deamination. ICD11-1T cleaves inosine-containing substra...