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 …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging roles of lncRNA in cancer and therapeutic opportunities

MC Jiang, JJ Ni, WY Cui, BY Wang… - American journal of …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cancer is difficult to cure due to frequent metastasis, and developing effective therapeutic
approaches to treat cancer is urgently important. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have …

Therapeutic targeting of long non-coding RNAs in cancer

G Arun, SD Diermeier, DL Spector - Trends in molecular medicine, 2018 - cell.com
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) represent a significant population of the human
transcriptome. Many lncRNAs exhibit cell-and/or tissue/tumor-specific expression, making …

Cas9 as a versatile tool for engineering biology

P Mali, KM Esvelt, GM Church - Nature methods, 2013 - nature.com
RNA-guided Cas9 nucleases derived from clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic
repeats (CRISPR)-Cas systems have dramatically transformed our ability to edit the …

Genetic screens in human cells using the CRISPR-Cas9 system

T Wang, JJ Wei, DM Sabatini, ES Lander - Science, 2014 - science.org
The bacterial clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)–Cas9
system for genome editing has greatly expanded the toolbox for mammalian genetics …

Ki67 is a promising molecular target in the diagnosis of cancer

LT Li, G Jiang, Q Chen… - Molecular medicine …, 2015 - spandidos-publications.com
The expression of Ki67 is strongly associated with tumor cell proliferation and growth, and is
widely used in routine pathological investigation as a proliferation marker. The nuclear …

RNA-guided human genome engineering via Cas9

P Mali, L Yang, KM Esvelt, J Aach, M Guell, JE DiCarlo… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Bacteria and archaea have evolved adaptive immune defenses, termed clustered regularly
interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated (Cas) systems, that …

Liposome-based drug co-delivery systems in cancer cells

SZ Vahed, R Salehi, S Davaran, S Sharifi - Materials Science and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Combination therapy and nanotechnology offer a promising therapeutic method in cancer
treatment. By improving drug's pharmacokinetics, nanoparticulate systems increase the …

[HTML][HTML] Effective tools for RNA-derived therapeutics: siRNA interference or miRNA mimicry

P Wang, Y Zhou, AM Richards - Theranostics, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The approval of the first small interfering RNA (siRNA) drug Patisiran by FDA in 2018 marks
a new era of RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics. MicroRNAs (miRNA), an important post …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular mechanisms and biological functions of siRNA

H Dana, GM Chalbatani… - … journal of biomedical …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
One of the most important advances in biology has been the discovery that siRNA (small
interfering RNA) is able to regulate the expression of genes, by a phenomenon known as …