[HTML][HTML] Antisense-mediated splice intervention to treat human disease: The odyssey continues

I Pitout, LL Flynn, SD Wilton, S Fletcher - F1000Research, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Recent approvals of oligonucleotide analogue drugs to alter gene expression have been
welcomed by patient communities but not universally supported. These compounds …

Nonsequential Splicing Events Alter Antisense-Mediated Exon Skipping Outcome in COL7A1

KA Ham, MT Aung-Htut, S Fletcher… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The COL7A1 gene encodes homotrimer fibrils essential for anchoring dermal and epidermal
layers, and pathogenic mutations in COL7A1 can cause recessive or dominant dystrophic …

Reduction of integrin alpha 4 activity through splice modulating antisense oligonucleotides

MT Aung-Htut, I Comerford, R Johnsen, K Foyle… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
With recent approvals of antisense oligonucleotides as therapeutics, there is an increasing
interest in expanding the application of these compounds to many other diseases. Our …

Targeted SMN Exon Skipping: A Useful Control to Assess In Vitro and In Vivo Splice-Switching Studies

LL Flynn, C Mitrpant, A Adams, IL Pitout, A Stirnweiss… - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
The literature surrounding the use of antisense oligonucleotides continues to grow, with new
disease and mechanistic applications constantly evolving. Furthermore, the discovery and …

Removal of the polyglutamine repeat of ataxin-3 by redirecting pre-mRNA processing

CS McIntosh, MT Aung-Htut, S Fletcher… - International Journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease for which
there is currently no cure, nor effective treatment strategy. One of nine polyglutamine …

Consequences of making the inactive active through changes in antisense oligonucleotide chemistries

K Zaw, K Greer, MT Aung-Htut, C Mitrpant… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Antisense oligonucleotides are short, single-stranded nucleic acid analogues that can
interfere with pre-messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) processing and induce excision of a targeted …

[PDF][PDF] Antisense oligonucleotide-mediated alternative splicing strategies to treat the type-1 fibrillinopathies

JM Cale - 2021 - researchportal.murdoch.edu.au
The type-1 fibrillinopathies are a family of connective tissue disorders of which Marfan
syndrome is the most common, affecting between 2-3 in 10,000 individuals. Marfan …

[PDF][PDF] the odyssey continues [version 1; peer review: 3 approved]

I Pitout, LL Flynn, SD Wilton, S Fletcher - 2019 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Recent approvals of oligonucleotide analogue drugs to alter gene expression have been
welcomed by patient communities but not universally supported. These compounds …

[PDF][PDF] Reduction of integrin alpha 4 activity through splice modulating antisense oligonucleotides

SD Wilton - 2019 - researchportal.murdoch.edu.au
Results Analysis of the ITGA4 transcript and structure. ITGA4 is a cell surface integrin
receptor protein encoded by 28 exons (Supplementary Fig. S1). The functional full-length …