Advances in oligonucleotide drug delivery

TC Roberts, R Langer, MJA Wood - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2020 - nature.com
Oligonucleotides can be used to modulate gene expression via a range of processes
including RNAi, target degradation by RNase H-mediated cleavage, splicing modulation …

Antisense technology: A review

ST Crooke, XH Liang, BF Baker, RM Crooke - Journal of Biological …, 2021 - ASBMB
Antisense technology is beginning to deliver on the broad promise of the technology. Ten
RNA-targeted drugs including eight single-strand antisense drugs (ASOs) and two double …

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 …

Cellular uptake and trafficking of antisense oligonucleotides

ST Crooke, S Wang, TA Vickers, W Shen… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) modified with phosphorothioate (PS) linkages and
different 2′ modifications can be used either as drugs (eg, to treat homozygous familial …

Paraspeckles: where long noncoding RNA meets phase separation

AH Fox, S Nakagawa, T Hirose, CS Bond - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2018 - cell.com
Long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) molecules are some of the newest and least understood
players in gene regulation. Hence, we need good model systems with well-defined RNA and …

Chemical modification of PS-ASO therapeutics reduces cellular protein-binding and improves the therapeutic index

W Shen, CL De Hoyos, MT Migawa, TA Vickers… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The molecular mechanisms of toxicity of chemically modified phosphorothioate antisense
oligonucleotides (PS-ASOs) are not fully understood. Here, we report that toxic gapmer PS …

Molecular mechanisms of antisense oligonucleotides

ST Crooke - Nucleic acid therapeutics, 2017 - liebertpub.com
In 1987, when I became interested in the notion of antisense technology, I returned to my
roots in RNA biochemistry and began work to understand how oligonucleotides behave in …

NEAT 1: A novel cancer‐related long non‐coding RNA

X Yu, Z Li, H Zheng, MTV Chan, WKK Wu - Cell proliferation, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aberrant overexpression of the long non‐coding RNA NEAT 1 (nuclear paraspeckle
assembly transcript 1) has been documented in different types of solid tumours, such as lung …

[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 …

Biomolecular condensates: new opportunities for drug discovery and RNA therapeutics

BA Conti, M Oppikofer - Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, 2022 - cell.com
Biomolecular condensates organize cellular functions in the absence of membranes. These
membraneless organelles can form through liquid–liquid phase separation coalescing RNA …