Chemical Research in Chinese Universities ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (4): 856-865.doi: 10.1007/s40242-021-1265-5

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Programmable Oligonucleotide-Peptide Complexes:Synthesis and Applications

XU Min1, ZHOU Baomei1, DING Yan1,2, DU Shanshan1, SU Mengke1, LIU Honglin1   

  1. 1. China Light Industry Key Laboratory of Meat Microbial Control and Utilization, School of Food and Biological Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230009, P. R. China;
    2. First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230000, P. R. China
  • Received:2021-07-13 Revised:2021-08-15 Online:2022-08-01 Published:2022-07-01
  • Contact: SU Mengke;LIU Honglin E-mail:sumengke555@163.com;liuhonglin@mail.ustc.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2019YFC1605900), the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21922403, 21874034), the Key Research and Development Project of Anhui Province, China(No.202104a07020013), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China(Nos.PA2020GDJQ0030, JZ2021HGTA0171, JZ2021HGQA0243), and the Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation, China(No.2108085QB84).

Abstract: Nucleic acids form biological blueprint and polypeptides assist life activities, both of which are indispensable to organisms. Recently, oligonucleotide-peptide complexes (OPCs) have shown great potential in biomedicine, material chemistry and other fields due to their considerable stability and programmability. It remains a huge challenge to stably and facilely constructing OPCs that also limits the wide applications. This tutorial review first summarizes the synthesis strategies of OPC conjugation and the corresponding characteristics in detail, then gives examples of the applications of OPCs, and finally presents a prospective overview on challenges and future perspectives of OPCs. This review aims to help researchers understand the current situation and challenges in this field, thereby furthering interests in developing novel OPC synthesis techniques.

Key words: Oligonucleotide, Peptide, Complex