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 …

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 …

Drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics of antisense oligonucleotide therapeutics: typical profiles, evaluation approaches, and points to consider compared with small …

H Takakusa, N Iwazaki, M Nishikawa… - nucleic acid …, 2023 - liebertpub.com
Oligonucleotide therapeutics are attracting attention as a new treatment modality for a range
of diseases that have been difficult to target using conventional approaches. Technical …

Oligonucleotide therapies for disorders of the nervous system

O Khorkova, C Wahlestedt - Nature biotechnology, 2017 - nature.com
Oligonucleotide therapies are currently experiencing a resurgence driven by advances in
backbone chemistry and discoveries of novel therapeutic pathways that can be uniquely and …

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 …

Therapeutic RNA-silencing oligonucleotides in metabolic diseases

A Goga, M Stoffel - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2022 - nature.com
Recent years have seen unprecedented activity in the development of RNA-silencing
oligonucleotide therapeutics for metabolic diseases. Improved oligonucleotide design and …

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 …

Conjugation of hydrophobic moieties enhances potency of antisense oligonucleotides in the muscle of rodents and non-human primates

ME Østergaard, M Jackson, A Low… - Nucleic Acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We determined the effect of attaching palmitate, tocopherol or cholesterol to PS ASOs and
their effects on plasma protein binding and on enhancing ASO potency in the muscle of …

Enhancing the effectiveness of oligonucleotide therapeutics using cell-penetrating peptide conjugation, chemical modification, and carrier-based delivery strategies

S Anwar, F Mir, T Yokota - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Oligonucleotide-based therapies are a promising approach for treating a wide range of hard-
to-treat diseases, particularly genetic and rare diseases. These therapies involve the use of …

[PDF][PDF] Nusinersen as a therapeutic agent for spinal muscular atrophy

Q Li - Yonsei medical journal, 2020 - synapse.koreamed.org
The reduction of survival motor neuron (SMN) protein causes spinal muscular atrophy
(SMA), an autosomal recessive neuromuscular disease. Nusinersen is an antisense …