Table of Contents

FOREWORD vii

CONTRIBUTORS xi

INTRODUCTION xv

1 RECENT ADVANCES IN CARBOCYCLIC NUCLEOSIDES: SYNTHESIS AND BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY 1
Jianing Wang, Ravindra K. Rawal, and Chung K. Chu

2 STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF NUCLEIC ACIDS MODIFIED WITH S, Se, AND Te AND COMPLEXED WITH SMALL MOLECULES 101
Wen Zhang, Jia Sheng, and Zhen Huang

3 UNRAVELING OF THE NAD CYCLIZING AND CALCIUM SIGNALING FUNCTIONS OF HUMAN CD38 142
Hon Cheung Lee

4 DNA AND RNA BINDING SMALL MOLECULES 164
Shibo Li and Zhen Xi

5 G-QUADRUPLEX DNA AND ITS LIGANDS IN ANTICANCER THERAPY 206
Zhi-Shu Huang, Jia-Heng Tan, Tian-Miao Ou, Ding Li, and Lian-Quan Gu

6 MOLECULAR MODELING IN NUCLEIC ACID-TARGETED DRUG DESIGN 258
Lidan Sun, Hongwei Jin, Liangren Zhang, and Lihe Zhang

7 STRUCTURE OF 10–23 DNAzyme IN COMPLEX WITH THE TARGET RNA IN SILICO—A PROGRESS REPORT ON THE MECHANISM OF RNA CLEAVAGE BY DNA ENZYME 272
Oleksandr Plashkevych and Jyoti Chattopadhyaya

8 LABELING OLIGONUCLEOTIDES TOWARD THE BIOMEDICAL PROBE 292
Il Joon Lee and Byeang Hyean Kim

9 LOCKED NUCLEIC ACID OLIGONUCLEOTIDES TOWARD CLINICAL APPLICATIONS 335
Rakesh N. Veedu and Jesper Wengel

10 THE PHARMACOKINETICS RESEARCH OF NUCLEIC ACID DRUGS 349
Shengqi Wang, Dandan Lu, Qingqing Wang, Haifeng Song, Chan Gao, Caihong Liu, and Ying Wang

11 INDUCIBLE RNAi AND DRUG TARGET VALIDATION 390
Wei Xiong, Jing Zhao, Yufan Zhang, Jinxi Wang, Yong-Xiang Zheng, Qiu-Chen He, Li-He Zhang, and De-Min Zhou

12 siRNA: THE SPECIFICITY AND OFF-TARGET EFFECTS 405
Quan Du, Huang Huang, and Zicai Liang

INDEX 423

About the Author

LI-HE ZHANG is President of the academic committee of StateKey Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, as well asProfessor of Medicinal Chemistry at Peking University. He is also amember of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the RoyalSociety of Chemistry, former vice president of the ChinesePharmaceutical Association, and past president of the AsianFederation of Medicinal Chemistry. ZHEN XI, PhD, is Deputy Director of the State KeyLaboratory of Elemento-organic Chemistry, as well as Professor ofPesticide Science and Chemical Biology, and Vice Dean of theCollege of Chemistry at Nankai University. He holds seven patentsand has written a number of reviews and book chapters andsixty-four original research articles. JYOTI CHATTOPADHYAYA, PhD, DSc, is the University Chairof Bioorganic Chemistry and the chair of the Chemical BiologyProgram at Uppsala University. He is a guest professor of chemistryat both Jilin University and Nankai University. He has written over410 peer-reviewed original research articles and is also on theeditorial boards of several international journals.

Reviews

The book gives a good overview on some aspects of currentresearch in the field. ... For those in the field seekinginspiration, it is a good book. (ChemMedChem,2012)