Nicholas Economos
MD/PhD Student, Therapeutic RadiologyAbout
Research
Publications
2024
Peptide Nucleic Acid-Mediated Regulation of CRISPR-Cas9 Specificity
Carufe K, Economos N, Glazer P. Peptide Nucleic Acid-Mediated Regulation of CRISPR-Cas9 Specificity. Nucleic Acid Therapeutics 2024, 34: 245-256. PMID: 39037032, PMCID: PMC11564683, DOI: 10.1089/nat.2024.0007.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPeptide nucleic acidProtospacer adjacent motifAllele-specific mannerDegree of homologyWild-type sequencePAM-proximal regionSynthetic peptide nucleic acidOff-target sitesSpacer sequencesAdjacent motifMutant allelesCas9 cuttingBase pairsCas9 activityCRISPR technologyAutosomal dominant diseaseGRNACRISPR applicationsNucleic acidsBinding positionDominant diseaseSequenceDeliberate mismatchGene therapy
2022
An ELISA-based platform for rapid identification of structure-dependent nucleic acid–protein interactions detects novel DNA triplex interactors
Economos NG, Thapar U, Balasubramanian N, Karras GI, Glazer PM. An ELISA-based platform for rapid identification of structure-dependent nucleic acid–protein interactions detects novel DNA triplex interactors. Journal Of Biological Chemistry 2022, 298: 102398. PMID: 35988651, PMCID: PMC9493393, DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2022.102398.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNucleic acid structuresNucleic acid-protein interactionsNucleotide excision repairSingle-strand annealing repairDouble-strand break intermediatesUnusual nucleic acid structuresNovel interactorNucleic acid interactionsHigh-throughput platformCellular processesFactor localizationAcid structureExcision repairRelevant lociHuman cellsGene editingAcid interactionsInteractorsTherapeutic gene editingNucleic acidsDNA triplexesRapid identificationComparative approachGenomeTriplexesAntispacer peptide nucleic acids for sequence-specific CRISPR-Cas9 modulation
Economos NG, Quijano E, Carufe KEW, Perera JDR, Glazer PM. Antispacer peptide nucleic acids for sequence-specific CRISPR-Cas9 modulation. Nucleic Acids Research 2022, 50: e59-e59. PMID: 35235944, PMCID: PMC9177974, DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac095.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2020
Oncometabolites suppress DNA repair by disrupting local chromatin signalling
Sulkowski PL, Oeck S, Dow J, Economos NG, Mirfakhraie L, Liu Y, Noronha K, Bao X, Li J, Shuch BM, King MC, Bindra RS, Glazer PM. Oncometabolites suppress DNA repair by disrupting local chromatin signalling. Nature 2020, 582: 586-591. PMID: 32494005, PMCID: PMC7319896, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2363-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDNA repairDNA breaksFumarate hydrataseDownstream repair factorsHistone 3 lysine 9Homology-dependent repairPoly (ADP-ribose) polymeraseRecruitment of TIP60Deregulation of metabolismChromatin signalingSuccinate dehydrogenase genesGenome integrityLysine 9Repair factorsDehydrogenase geneEnd resectionIsocitrate dehydrogenase 1Aberrant hypermethylationMechanistic basisSomatic mutationsDehydrogenase 1GenesHuman malignanciesProper executionMutations