LNA-mediated microRNA silencing in non-human primates

J Elmén, M Lindow, S Schütz, M Lawrence, A Petri… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Abstract microRNAs (miRNAs) are small regulatory RNAs that are important in development
and disease,, and therefore represent a potential new class of targets for therapeutic …

Silencing of microRNAs in vivo with 'antagomirs'

J Krützfeldt, N Rajewsky, R Braich, KG Rajeev… - nature, 2005 - nature.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are an abundant class of non-coding RNAs that are believed to be
important in many biological processes through regulation of gene expression,,. The precise …

Effective RNAi-mediated gene silencing without interruption of the endogenous microRNA pathway

M John, R Constien, A Akinc, M Goldberg, YA Moon… - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
Systemic administration of synthetic small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) effectively silences
hepatocyte gene expression in rodents and primates,,. Whether or not in vivo gene silencing …

MicroRNA silencing in primates: towards development of novel therapeutics

A Petri, M Lindow, S Kauppinen - Cancer research, 2009 - AACR
MicroRNAs (miRNA) comprise an abundant class of small noncoding RNAs that act as
important posttranscriptional regulators of gene expression. Accumulating evidence …

Silencing of microRNA families by seed-targeting tiny LNAs

S Obad, CO dos Santos, A Petri, M Heidenblad… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
The challenge of understanding the widespread biological roles of animal microRNAs
(miRNAs) has prompted the development of genetic and functional genomics technologies …

Antagonism of microRNA-122 in mice by systemically administered LNA-antimiR leads to up-regulation of a large set of predicted target mRNAs in the liver

J Elmen, M Lindow, A Silahtaroglu, M Bak… - Nucleic acids …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Abstract MicroRNA-122 (miR-122) is an abundant liver-specific miRNA, implicated in fatty
acid and cholesterol metabolism as well as hepatitis C viral replication. Here, we report that …

Pharmacological inhibition of a microRNA family in nonhuman primates by a seed-targeting 8-mer antimiR

V Rottiers, S Obad, A Petri, R McGarrah… - Science translational …, 2013 - science.org
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate many aspects of human biology. They target mRNAs for
translational repression or degradation through base pairing with 3′ untranslated regions …

Long-term, efficient inhibition of microRNA function in mice using rAAV vectors

J Xie, SL Ameres, R Friedline, JH Hung, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Understanding the function of individual microRNA (miRNA) species in mice would require
the production of hundreds of loss-of-function strains. To accelerate analysis of miRNA …

Stable knockdown of microRNA in vivo by lentiviral vectors

B Gentner, G Schira, A Giustacchini, M Amendola… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Studying microRNA function in vivo requires genetic strategies to generate loss-of-function
phenotypes. We used lentiviral vectors to stably and specifically knock down microRNA by …

RNAi-mediated gene silencing in non-human primates

TS Zimmermann, ACH Lee, A Akinc, B Bramlage… - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
The opportunity to harness the RNA interference (RNAi) pathway to silence disease-causing
genes holds great promise for the development of therapeutics directed against targets that …