Search Results - "Swayze, Eric"
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RNA Targeting Therapeutics: Molecular Mechanisms of Antisense Oligonucleotides as a Therapeutic Platform
Published in Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology (01-02-2010)“…Dramatic advances in understanding of the roles RNA plays in normal health and disease have greatly expanded over the past 10 years and have made it clear that…”
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Single-Stranded RNAs Use RNAi to Potently and Allele-Selectively Inhibit Mutant Huntingtin Expression
Published in Cell (31-08-2012)“…Mutant huntingtin (HTT) protein causes Huntington disease (HD), an incurable neurological disorder. Silencing mutant HTT using nucleic acids would eliminate…”
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Towards next generation antisense oligonucleotides: mesylphosphoramidate modification improves therapeutic index and duration of effect of gapmer antisense oligonucleotides
Published in Nucleic acids research (20-09-2021)“…Abstract The PS modification enhances the nuclease stability and protein binding properties of gapmer antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) and is one of very few…”
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Targeting Huntingtin Expression in Patients with Huntington’s Disease
Published in The New England journal of medicine (13-06-2019)“…Mutated HTT , resulting in mutant huntingtin, causes Huntington’s disease. A phase 1–2a trial of intrathecal delivery of an antisense oligonucleotide targeting…”
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Single-Stranded siRNAs Activate RNAi in Animals
Published in Cell (31-08-2012)“…The therapeutic utility of siRNAs is limited by the requirement for complex formulations to deliver them to tissues. If potent single-stranded RNAs could be…”
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Pharmacology of Antisense Drugs
Published in Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology (06-01-2017)“…Recent studies have led to a greater appreciation of the diverse roles RNAs play in maintaining normal cellular function and how they contribute to disease…”
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Synthetic CRISPR RNA-Cas9–guided genome editing in human cells
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (22-12-2015)“…Genome editing with the clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-Cas9 nuclease system is a powerful technology for manipulating…”
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Characterization of the interactions of chemically-modified therapeutic nucleic acids with plasma proteins using a fluorescence polarization assay
Published in Nucleic acids research (20-02-2019)“…Abstract Interactions of chemically modified nucleic acid therapeutics with plasma proteins play an important role in facilitating distribution from the…”
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Targeted delivery of antisense oligonucleotides to hepatocytes using triantennary N-acetyl galactosamine improves potency 10-fold in mice
Published in Nucleic acids research (29-07-2014)“…Triantennary N-acetyl galactosamine (GalNAc, GN3: ), a high-affinity ligand for the hepatocyte-specific asialoglycoprotein receptor (ASGPR), enhances the…”
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The atlas of RNase H antisense oligonucleotide distribution and activity in the CNS of rodents and non-human primates following central administration
Published in Nucleic acids research (25-01-2021)“…Abstract Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) have emerged as a new class of drugs to treat a wide range of diseases, including neurological indications…”
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Fatty acid conjugation enhances potency of antisense oligonucleotides in muscle
Published in Nucleic acids research (09-07-2019)“…Abstract Enhancing the functional uptake of antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) in the muscle will be beneficial for developing ASO therapeutics targeting genes…”
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Site-specific incorporation of 5′-methyl DNA enhances the therapeutic profile of gapmer ASOs
Published in Nucleic acids research (26-02-2021)“…Abstract We recently showed that site-specific incorporation of 2′-modifications or neutral linkages in the oligo-deoxynucleotide gap region of toxic…”
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Tau-targeting antisense oligonucleotide MAPTRx in mild Alzheimer’s disease: a phase 1b, randomized, placebo-controlled trial
Published in Nature medicine (01-06-2023)“…Tau plays a key role in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathophysiology, and accumulating evidence suggests that lowering tau may reduce this pathology. We sought to…”
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Understanding the effect of controlling phosphorothioate chirality in the DNA gap on the potency and safety of gapmer antisense oligonucleotides
Published in Nucleic acids research (28-02-2020)“…Therapeutic oligonucleotides are often modified using the phosphorothioate (PS) backbone modification which enhances stability from nuclease mediated…”
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LRRK2 Antisense Oligonucleotides Ameliorate α-Synuclein Inclusion Formation in a Parkinson’s Disease Mouse Model
Published in Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids (15-09-2017)“…No treatments exist to slow or halt Parkinson’s disease (PD) progression; however, inhibition of leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) activity represents one…”
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Mechanisms of palmitic acid-conjugated antisense oligonucleotide distribution in mice
Published in Nucleic acids research (07-05-2020)“…Conjugation of antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) with a variety of distinct lipophilic moieties like fatty acids and cholesterol increases ASO accumulation and…”
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PMP22 antisense oligonucleotides reverse Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A features in rodent models
Published in The Journal of clinical investigation (02-01-2018)“…Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A (CMT1A) is caused by duplication of peripheral myelin protein 22 (PMP22) and is the most common hereditary peripheral…”
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Antisense oligonucleotides to therapeutically target SARS-CoV-2 infection
Published in PloS one (03-02-2023)“…Although the COVID-19 pandemic began over three years ago, the virus responsible for the disease, SARS-CoV-2, continues to infect people across the globe. As…”
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Systematic Investigation of Tether Length and Phosphorus Configuration in Backbone Constrained Macrocyclic Nucleic Acids to Modulate Binding Kinetics for RNA
Published in Journal of organic chemistry (17-03-2023)“…We recently described a chemical strategy to pre-organize a trinucleotide subunit in a conformation suitable for Watson–Crick base pairing for modulating the…”
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Allele-specific suppression of mutant huntingtin using antisense oligonucleotides: providing a therapeutic option for all Huntington disease patients
Published in PloS one (10-09-2014)“…Huntington disease (HD) is an inherited, fatal neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG repeat expansion in the huntingtin gene. The mutant protein causes…”
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