Chemistry, structure and function of approved oligonucleotide therapeutics

M Egli, M Manoharan - Nucleic Acids Research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Eighteen nucleic acid therapeutics have been approved for treatment of various diseases in
the last 25 years. Their modes of action include antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs), splice …

microRNAs in action: biogenesis, function and regulation

R Shang, S Lee, G Senavirathne, EC Lai - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Ever since microRNAs (miRNAs) were first recognized as an extensive gene family> 20
years ago, a broad community of researchers was drawn to investigate the universe of small …

Life of RISC: Formation, action, and degradation of RNA-induced silencing complex

H Iwakawa, Y Tomari - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Small RNAs regulate a wide variety of biological processes by repressing the expression of
target genes at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels. To achieve these …

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 …

An overview of some biopesticides and their importance in plant protection for commercial acceptance

J Kumar, A Ramlal, D Mallick, V Mishra - Plants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Biopesticides are natural, biologically occurring compounds that are used to control various
agricultural pests infesting plants in forests, gardens, farmlands, etc. There are different …

RNA drugs and RNA targets for small molecules: principles, progress, and challenges

AM Yu, YH Choi, MJ Tu - Pharmacological reviews, 2020 - ASPET
RNA-based therapies, including RNA molecules as drugs and RNA-targeted small
molecules, offer unique opportunities to expand the range of therapeutic targets. Various …

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 …

RNA-binding proteins contribute to small RNA loading in plant extracellular vesicles

B He, Q Cai, L Qiao, CY Huang, S Wang, W Miao, T Ha… - Nature plants, 2021 - nature.com
Plants use extracellular vesicles (EVs) to transport small RNAs (sRNAs) into their fungal
pathogens and silence fungal virulence-related genes through a phenomenon called 'cross …

Regulation of microRNA function in animals

LFR Gebert, IJ MacRae - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Since their serendipitous discovery in nematodes, microRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as
key regulators of biological processes in animals. These small RNAs form complex networks …

[HTML][HTML] Metazoan micrornas

DP Bartel - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are∼ 22 nt RNAs that direct posttranscriptional repression of mRNA
targets in diverse eukaryotic lineages. In humans and other mammals, these small RNAs …