Development of antisense‐mediated exon skipping as a treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

H Heemskerk, CL De Winter… - Annals of the New …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severe muscle‐wasting disease caused by frame
shifting and nonsense mutations in the dystrophin gene. Through skipping of an (additional) …

Multiple exon skipping in the Duchenne muscular dystrophy hot spots: prospects and challenges

Y Echigoya, KRQ Lim, A Nakamura… - Journal of personalized …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a fatal X-linked recessive disorder, is caused mostly
by frame-disrupting, out-of-frame deletions in the dystrophin (DMD) gene. Antisense …

Exploring the frontiers of therapeutic exon skipping for Duchenne muscular dystrophy by double targeting within one or multiple exons

A Aartsma-Rus, WE Kaman, R Weij, JT Den Dunnen… - Molecular therapy, 2006 - cell.com
Through antisense-induced single-, double-, and multiexon skipping, we have previously
demonstrated restoration of dystrophin expression in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) …

Systematic evaluation of 2′-Fluoro modified chimeric antisense oligonucleotide-mediated exon skipping in vitro

S Chen, BT Le, M Chakravarthy, TR Kosbar… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Antisense oligonucleotide (AO)-mediated splice modulation has been established as a
therapeutic approach for tackling genetic diseases. Recently, Exondys51, a drug that aims to …

Comparative analysis of antisense oligonucleotide analogs for targeted DMD exon 46 skipping in muscle cells

A Aartsma-Rus, WE Kaman, M Bremmer-Bout… - Gene therapy, 2004 - nature.com
As small molecule drugs for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), antisense
oligonucleotides (AONs) have been shown to restore the disrupted reading frame of DMD …

194th ENMC international workshop. 3rd ENMC workshop on exon skipping: Towards clinical application of antisense-mediated exon skipping for Duchenne …

A Aartsma-Rus, F Muntoni - Neuromuscular Disorders, 2013 - Elsevier
Twenty-seven participants from 9 countries (Australia; Belgium; England; France; Germany;
Italy; Japan; The Netherlands; USA) attended the third ENMC workshop on exon skipping …

Assessment of the feasibility of exon 45–55 multiexon skipping for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

L Van Vliet, CL de Winter, JCT van Deutekom… - BMC medical …, 2008 - Springer
Background The specific skipping of an exon, induced by antisense oligonucleotides (AON)
during splicing, has shown to be a promising therapeutic approach for Duchenne muscular …

Splice-switching antisense oligonucleotides as therapeutic drugs

MA Havens, ML Hastings - Nucleic acids research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Splice-switching oligonucleotides (SSOs) are short, synthetic, antisense, modified nucleic
acids that base-pair with a pre-mRNA and disrupt the normal splicing repertoire of the …

Antisense oligonucleotide-induced exon skipping across the human dystrophin gene transcript

SD Wilton, AM Fall, PL Harding, G McClorey… - Molecular Therapy, 2007 - cell.com
Protein-truncating mutations in the dystrophin gene lead to the most common childhood form
of muscle wasting, Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Becker muscular dystrophy, a condition …

Antisense mediated splicing modulation for inherited metabolic diseases: challenges for delivery

B Pérez, L Vilageliu, D Grinberg… - nucleic acid …, 2014 - liebertpub.com
In the past few years, research in targeted mutation therapies has experienced significant
advances, especially in the field of rare diseases. In particular, the efficacy of antisense …