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 …

Therapeutic targeting of microRNAs: current status and future challenges

Z Li, TM Rana - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2014 - nature.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are evolutionarily conserved small non-coding RNAs that have crucial
roles in regulating gene expression. Increasing evidence supports a role for miRNAs in …

Designing chemically modified oligonucleotides for targeted gene silencing

GF Deleavey, MJ Damha - Chemistry & biology, 2012 - cell.com
Oligonucleotides (ONs), and their chemically modified mimics, are now routinely used in the
laboratory as a means to control the expression of fundamentally interesting or …

Therapeutic oligonucleotides: state of the art

CIE Smith, R Zain - Annual review of pharmacology and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Oligonucleotides (ONs) can interfere with biomolecules representing the entire extended
central dogma. Antisense gapmer, steric block, splice-switching ONs, and short interfering …

The medicinal chemistry of therapeutic oligonucleotides

WB Wan, PP Seth - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2016 - ACS Publications
Oligonucleotide-based therapeutics have made rapid progress in the clinic for treatment of a
variety of disease indications. Unmodified oligonucleotides are polyanionic macromolecules …

2′-Fluoropyrimidine RNA-based aptamers to the 165-amino acid form of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF165): Inhibition of receptor binding and VEGF …

J Ruckman, LS Green, J Beeson, S Waugh… - Journal of Biological …, 1998 - ASBMB
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) has been implicated in the pathological induction
of new blood vessel growth in a variety of proliferative disorders. Using the SELEX process …

RNA interference in the era of nucleic acid therapeutics

V Jadhav, A Vaishnaw, K Fitzgerald, MA Maier - Nature Biotechnology, 2024 - nature.com
Two decades of research on RNA interference (RNAi) have transformed a breakthrough
discovery in biology into a robust platform for a new class of medicines that modulate mRNA …

The ups and downs of nucleic acid duplex stability: structure-stability studies on chemically-modified DNA: RNA duplexes

SM Freier, KH Altmann - Nucleic acids research, 1997 - academic.oup.com
In an effort to discover novel oligonucleotide modifications for antisense therapeutics, we
have prepared oligodeoxyribonucleotides containing more than 200 different modifications …

Therapeutic targeting of non-coding RNAs in cancer

O Slaby, R Laga, O Sedlacek - Biochemical journal, 2017 - portlandpress.com
The majority of the human genome encodes RNAs that do not code for proteins. These non-
coding RNAs (ncRNAs) affect normal expression of the genes, including oncogenes and …

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic siRNA: principles, challenges, and strategies

K Gavrilov, WM Saltzman - The Yale journal of biology and …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
RNA interference (RNAi) is a remarkable endogenous regulatory pathway that can bring
about sequence-specific gene silencing. If harnessed effectively, RNAi could result in a …