[HTML][HTML] Emerging concepts of miRNA therapeutics: from cells to clinic

C Diener, A Keller, E Meese - Trends in Genetics, 2022 - cell.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are very powerful genetic regulators, as evidenced by the fact that a
single miRNA can direct entire cellular pathways via interacting with a broad spectrum of …

Phosphorothioate modified oligonucleotide–protein interactions

ST Crooke, TA Vickers, X Liang - Nucleic acids research, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) interact with target RNAs via hybridization to modulate
gene expression through different mechanisms. ASO therapeutics are chemically modified …

Engineered ionizable lipid nanoparticles for targeted delivery of RNA therapeutics into different types of cells in the liver

M Kim, M Jeong, S Hur, Y Cho, J Park, H Jung… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Ionizable lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) have been widely used for in vivo delivery of RNA
therapeutics into the liver. However, a main challenge remains to develop LNP formulations …

Therapeutic oligonucleotides: state of the art

CIE Smith, R Zain - Annual review of pharmacology and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Oligonucleotides (ONs) can interfere with biomolecules representing the entire extended
central dogma. Antisense gapmer, steric block, splice-switching ONs, and short interfering …

Hepatocyte Notch activation induces liver fibrosis in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis

C Zhu, KJ Kim, X Wang, A Bartolome… - Science translational …, 2018 - science.org
Fibrosis is the major determinant of morbidity and mortality in patients with nonalcoholic
steatohepatitis (NASH) but has no approved pharmacotherapy in part because of …

[HTML][HTML] RNA interference as a novel treatment strategy for chronic hepatitis B infection

RWH Hui, LY Mak, WK Seto… - Clinical and molecular …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is a major cause of liver-related morbidity and mortality.
Functional cure of CHB, defined as sustainable hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) …

Small drugs, huge impact: the extraordinary impact of antisense oligonucleotides in research and drug development

AM Quemener, ML Centomo, SL Sax, R Panella - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) are an increasingly represented class of drugs. These
small sequences of nucleotides are designed to precisely target other oligonucleotides …

Overcoming the challenges of tissue delivery for oligonucleotide therapeutics

T Gökirmak, M Nikan, S Wiechmann, TP Prakash… - Trends in …, 2021 - cell.com
Synthetic therapeutic oligonucleotides (STO) represent the third bonafide platform for drug
discovery in the pharmaceutical industry after small molecule and protein therapeutics. So …

Characterization of the interactions of chemically-modified therapeutic nucleic acids with plasma proteins using a fluorescence polarization assay

HJ Gaus, R Gupta, AE Chappell… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Interactions of chemically modified nucleic acid therapeutics with plasma proteins play an
important role in facilitating distribution from the injection site to peripheral tissues by …

Understanding the effect of controlling phosphorothioate chirality in the DNA gap on the potency and safety of gapmer antisense oligonucleotides

ME Østergaard, CL De Hoyos, WB Wan… - Nucleic Acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Therapeutic oligonucleotides are often modified using the phosphorothioate (PS) backbone
modification which enhances stability from nuclease mediated degradation. However …