Chemical synthesis and biological application of modified oligonucleotides

DA Glazier, J Liao, BL Roberts, X Li, K Yang… - Bioconjugate …, 2020 - ACS Publications
RNA plays a myriad of roles in the body including the coding, decoding, regulation, and
expression of genes. RNA oligonucleotides have garnered significant interest as …

Splice-modulating antisense oligonucleotides as therapeutics for inherited metabolic diseases

S Chen, SN Heendeniya, BT Le, K Rahimizadeh… - BioDrugs, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The last decade (2013–2023) has seen unprecedented successes in the clinical
translation of therapeutic antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs). Eight such molecules have …

Thiomorpholino oligonucleotides as a robust class of next generation platforms for alternate mRNA splicing

BT Le, S Paul, K Jastrzebska… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Recent advances in drug development have seen numerous successful clinical translations
using synthetic antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs). However, major obstacles, such as …

Therapeutically significant microRNAs in primary and metastatic brain malignancies

AA Balachandran, LM Larcher, S Chen, RN Veedu - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The overall survival of brain cancer patients remains grim, with
conventional therapies such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy only providing marginal …

Antisense oligonucleotide-mediated splice switching: potential therapeutic approach for cancer mitigation

P Raguraman, AA Balachandran, S Chen… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Splicing is an important mechanism by which precursor mRNA is modified
into mature mRNA. This splicing plays a major role in the generation of different proteins …

Systematic evaluation of 2′-Fluoro modified chimeric antisense oligonucleotide-mediated exon skipping in vitro

S Chen, BT Le, M Chakravarthy, TR Kosbar… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Antisense oligonucleotide (AO)-mediated splice modulation has been established as a
therapeutic approach for tackling genetic diseases. Recently, Exondys51, a drug that aims to …

Antisense oligonucleotides as potential therapeutics for type 2 diabetes

S Chen, N Sbuh, RN Veedu - nucleic acid therapeutics, 2021 - liebertpub.com
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a chronic metabolic disorder characterized by persistent
hyperglycemia resulting from inefficient signaling and insufficient production of insulin …

Evaluation of Chemically Modified Nucleic Acid Analogues for Splice Switching Application

BT Le, S Chen, RN Veedu - ACS omega, 2023 - ACS Publications
In recent years, several splice switching antisense oligonucleotide (ASO)-based
therapeutics have gained significant interest, and several candidates received approval for …

Rational design of short locked nucleic acid-modified 2′-O-methyl antisense oligonucleotides for efficient exon-skipping in vitro

BT Le, AM Adams, S Fletcher, SD Wilton… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2017 - cell.com
Locked nucleic acid is a prominent nucleic acid analog with unprecedented target binding
affinity to cDNA and RNA oligonucleotides and shows remarkable stability against nuclease …

2′-O-Methyl RNA/Ethylene-Bridged Nucleic Acid Chimera Antisense Oligonucleotides to Induce Dystrophin Exon 45 Skipping

T Lee, H Awano, M Yagi, M Matsumoto, N Watanabe… - Genes, 2017 - mdpi.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a fatal muscle-wasting disease characterized by
dystrophin deficiency from mutations in the dystrophin gene. Antisense oligonucleotide (AO) …