The current state and future directions of RNAi-based therapeutics

RL Setten, JJ Rossi, S Han - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2019 - nature.com
The RNA interference (RNAi) pathway regulates mRNA stability and translation in nearly all
human cells. Small double-stranded RNA molecules can efficiently trigger RNAi silencing of …

Ongoing clinical trials of nonviral siRNA therapeutics

EA Narasipura, R VanKeulen-Miller, Y Ma… - Bioconjugate …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Short interfering RNAs (siRNA) are a powerful class of genetic medicines whose clinical
translation can be hindered by their suboptimal delivery properties in vivo. Here, we provide …

The delivery of therapeutic oligonucleotides

RL Juliano - Nucleic acids research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The oligonucleotide therapeutics field has seen remarkable progress over the last few years
with the approval of the first antisense drug and with promising developments in late stage …

Revisiting STAT3 signalling in cancer: new and unexpected biological functions

H Yu, H Lee, A Herrmann, R Buettner, R Jove - Nature reviews cancer, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract The Janus kinases (JAKs) and signal transducer and activator of transcription
(STAT) proteins, particularly STAT3, are among the most promising new targets for cancer …

Phosphorothioates, essential components of therapeutic oligonucleotides

F Eckstein - Nucleic acid therapeutics, 2014 - liebertpub.com
Phosphorothioates have found their usefulness in the general area of oligonucleotide
therapeutic applications. Initially this modification was introduced into the antisense …

Current development of siRNA bioconjugates: from research to the clinic

IV Chernikov, VV Vlassov… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) acting via RNA interference mechanisms are able to
recognize a homologous mRNA sequence in the cell and induce its degradation. The main …

Myeloid cell–targeted miR-146a mimic inhibits NF-κB–driven inflammation and leukemia progression in vivo

YL Su, X Wang, M Mann, TP Adamus… - Blood, The Journal …, 2020 - ashpublications.org
NF-κB is a key regulator of inflammation and cancer progression, with an important role in
leukemogenesis. Despite its therapeutic potential, targeting NF-κB using pharmacologic …

TLR9-targeted STAT3 silencing abrogates immunosuppressive activity of myeloid-derived suppressor cells from prostate cancer patients

DMS Hossain, SK Pal, D Moreira, P Duttagupta… - Clinical Cancer …, 2015 - AACR
Purpose: Recent advances in immunotherapy of advanced human cancers underscored the
need to address and eliminate tumor immune evasion. The myeloid-derived suppressor …

CTLA4 aptamer delivers STAT3 siRNA to tumor-associated and malignant T cells

A Herrmann, SJ Priceman, M Kujawski… - The Journal of …, 2014 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Intracellular therapeutic targets that define tumor immunosuppression in both tumor cells
and T cells remain intractable. Here, we have shown that administration of a covalently …

[HTML][HTML] Remodeling the tumor immune microenvironment via siRNA therapy for precision cancer treatment

L Jiang, Y Qi, L Yang, Y Miao, W Ren, H Liu… - Asian Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
How to effectively transform the pro-oncogenic tumor microenvironments (TME) surrounding
a tumor into an anti-tumoral never fails to attract people to study. Small interfering RNA …