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Overview

Gerald Zon is affiliated with TriLink BioTechnologies in the United States. Their research spans fields within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a focus on subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's work includes contributions to the following main research topics:

  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Virus-based gene therapy research
  • Biosensors and Analytical Detection
  • Advanced Biosensing Techniques and Applications
  • Animal Genetics and Reproduction

Gerald Zon has published in several academic venues, notably:

  • Molecular Therapy - Methods & Clinical Development
  • Analytical Biochemistry
  • Journal of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis

The frequently listed coauthors in their research include:

  • Paul J H Nijhuis
  • Maurits Romijn
  • Roy Honing
  • Inge Huitinga
  • Fred de Winter

Representative recent publications by Gerald Zon comprise:

  • Recent advances in aptamer applications for analytical biochemistry, 2020, Analytical Biochemistry
  • Mini-Review: Recent Advances in Aptamer Applications, 2020, Journal of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis

Other notable recent publications connected to their collaborative network include work on gene therapy:

  • Developing a minimally invasive gene therapy for multiple sclerosis, 2025, Molecular Therapy - Methods & Clinical Development (two papers with different citation counts)

Best Publications

  • Phosphorothioate analogs of oligodeoxynucleotides: inhibitors of replication and cytopathic effects of human immunodeficiency virus.

    Makoto Matsukura;Kazuo Shinozuka;Gerald Zon;Hiroaki Mitsuya

  • Phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase activity is regulated by BCR/ABL and is required for the growth of Philadelphia chromosome-positive cells

    Tomasz Skorski;Palanisamy Kanakaraj;Margaret Nieborowska-Skorska;Mariusz Z. Ratajczak

  • Oligonucleotide Analogues as Potential Chemotherapeutic Agents

    Gerald Zon

  • Automated solid-phase synthesis, separation, and stereochemistry of phosphorothioate analogs of oligodeoxyribonucleotides

    Wojciech J. Stec;Gerald Zon;William Egan

  • Automated system for polynucleotide synthesis and purification

    William A. Andrus;Christie D. Mccollum;Gerald Zon

  • Assignment of the 31P and 1H resonances in oligonucleotides by two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy

    Vladimir Sklenár̆;Hirotsugu Miyashiro;Gerald Zon;H. Todd Miles

  • Use of hexachlorodisilane as a reducing agent. Stereospecific deoxygenation of acyclic phosphine oxides

    Klaus Naumann;Gerald Zon;Kurt Mislow

  • Regulation of viral expression of human immunodeficiency virus in vitro by an antisense phosphorothioate oligodeoxynucleotide against rev (art/trs) in chronically infected cells.

    Makoto Matsukura;Gerald Zon;Kazuo Shinozuka;Marjorie Robert-Guroff

  • In vivo treatment of human leukemia in a scid mouse model with c-myb antisense oligodeoxynucleotides

    Mariusz Z. Ratajczak;Jeffrey A. Kant;Selina M. Luger;Nobuko Hijiya

  • Comparative inhibition of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene expression by antisense oligonucleotide analogues having alkyl phosphotriester, methylphosphonate and phosphorothioate linkages

    Carol Marcus-Sekura;Amy M. Woerner;Kazuo Shinozuka;Gerald Zon;Gerald Zon

  • Rapid nuclear accumulation of injected oligodeoxyribonucleotides.

    Chin Dj;Green Ga;Zon G;Szoka Fc

  • Suppression of Philadelphia1 leukemia cell growth in mice by BCR-ABL antisense oligodeoxynucleotide

    Tomasz Skorski;Malgorzata Nieborowska-Skorska;Nicholas C. Nicolaides;Cezary Szczylik

  • Materializing the Potential of Small Interfering RNA via a Tumor-Targeting Nanodelivery System

    Kathleen F. Pirollo;Antonina Rait;Qi Zhou;Sung Hee Hwang

  • Base only binding of spermine in the deep groove of the A-DNA octamer d(GTGTACAC).

    Sanjeev Jain;Gerald Zon;Muttaiya Sundaralingam

  • Barriers to pyramidal inversion at phosphorus in phospholes, phosphindoles, and dibenzophospholes

    William Egan;Reginald Tang;Gerald Zon;Kurt Mislow

  • Systemic Administration of a Phosphorothioate Oligonucleotide with a Sequence Complementary to p53 for Acute Myelogenous Leukemia and Myelodysplastic Syndrome: Initial Results of a Phase I Trial

    Eliel Bayever;Patrick L. Iversen;Michael R. Bishop;J. Graham Sharp

  • Phosphorothioate-modified oligodeoxyribonucleotides. III. NMR and UV spectroscopic studies of the Rp-Rp, Sp-Sp, and Rp-Sp duplexes, [d(GGSAATTCC)]2, derived from diastereomeric O-ethyl phosphorothioates.

    L A LaPlanche;T L James;C Powell;W D Wilson

  • Block of AIDS-Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) cell growth, angiogenesis, and lesion formation in nude mice by antisense oligonucleotide targeting basic fibroblast growth factor. A novel strategy for the therapy of KS.

    B Ensoli;P Markham;V Kao;G Barillari

  • Tumor-targeting nanoimmunoliposome complex for short interfering RNA delivery.

    Kathleen F. Pirollo;Gerald Zon;Antonina Rait;Qi Zhou

  • Phase I trial of an antisense oligonucleotide OL(1)p53 in hematologic malignancies.

    M R Bishop;P L Iversen;E Bayever;J G Sharp

  • Cellular uptake and subcellular distribution of phosphorothioate oligonucleotides into cultured cells.

    Patrick L. Iversen;Sijia Zhu;Anita Meyer;Gerald Zon

Frequent Co-Authors

Luigi G. Marzilli
Luigi G. Marzilli Louisiana State University
Leo A. Paquette
Leo A. Paquette The Ohio State University
Kurt Mislow
Kurt Mislow Princeton University
Bruno Calabretta
Bruno Calabretta Thomas Jefferson University
Patrick L. Iversen
Patrick L. Iversen Oregon State University
Michael F. Summers
Michael F. Summers University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Thomas L. James
Thomas L. James University of California, San Francisco
Wojciech J. Stec
Wojciech J. Stec Polish Academy of Sciences
Jack S. Cohen
Jack S. Cohen Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
W. David Wilson
W. David Wilson Georgia State University

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