Antisense-mediated transcript knockdown triggers premature transcription termination

JS Lee, JT Mendell - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) that trigger RNase-H-mediated cleavage are commonly
used to knock down transcripts for experimental or therapeutic purposes. In particular, ASOs …

Directed RNase H cleavage of nascent transcripts causes transcription termination

F Lai, SS Damle, KK Ling, F Rigo - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
An attractive approach to reduce gene expression is via the use of antisense
oligonucleotides (ASOs) that harness the RNase H1 mechanism. Here we show that RNase …

Nonsense-mediated decay as a terminating mechanism for antisense oligonucleotides

AJ Ward, M Norrbom, S Chun, CF Bennett… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) are synthetic oligonucleotides that alter expression of
disease-associated transcripts via Watson–Crick hybridization. ASOs that function through …

[HTML][HTML] RNase H1-dependent antisense oligonucleotides are robustly active in directing RNA cleavage in both the cytoplasm and the nucleus

XH Liang, H Sun, JG Nichols, ST Crooke - Molecular therapy, 2017 - cell.com
RNase H1-dependent antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) are active in reducing levels of
both cytoplasmic mRNAs and nuclear retained RNAs. Although ASO activity in the nucleus …

Antisense oligonucleotides targeting translation inhibitory elements in 5′ UTRs can selectively increase protein levels

X Liang, H Sun, W Shen, S Wang, J Yao… - Nucleic acids …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
A variety of diseases are caused by deficiencies in amounts or activity of key proteins. An
approach that increases the amount of a specific protein might be of therapeutic benefit. We …

Antisense oligonucleotide-based therapies for diseases caused by pre-mRNA processing defects

F Rigo, PP Seth, CF Bennett - Systems biology of RNA binding proteins, 2014 - Springer
Before a messenger RNA (mRNA) is translated into a protein in the cytoplasm, its pre-mRNA
precursor is extensively processed through capping, splicing and polyadenylation in the …

Do natural antisense transcripts make sense in eukaryotes?

C Vanhée-Brossollet, C Vaquero - Gene, 1998 - Elsevier
The existence of naturally occurring antisense RNAs has been illustrated, in eukaryotes, by
an increasing number of reports. The following review presents the major findings in this …

Translation efficiency of mRNAs is increased by antisense oligonucleotides targeting upstream open reading frames

XH Liang, W Shen, H Sun, MT Migawa… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Increasing the levels of therapeutic proteins in vivo remains challenging. Antisense
oligonucleotides (ASOs) are often used to downregulate gene expression 1 or to modify …

Regulatory roles of natural antisense transcripts

MA Faghihi, C Wahlestedt - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2009 - nature.com
Mammalian genomes encode numerous natural antisense transcripts, but the function of
these transcripts is not well understood. Functional validation studies indicate that antisense …

R-loops promote antisense transcription across the mammalian genome

SM Tan-Wong, S Dhir, NJ Proudfoot - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
Widespread antisense long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) overlap with many protein-coding
genes in mammals and emanate from gene promoter, enhancer, and termination regions …