Spinal muscular atrophy

E Mercuri, CJ Sumner, F Muntoni, BT Darras… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by mutations in
SMN1 (encoding survival motor neuron protein (SMN)). Reduced expression of SMN leads …

[HTML][HTML] Small molecule recognition of disease-relevant RNA structures

SM Meyer, CC Williams, Y Akahori, T Tanaka… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Targeting RNAs with small molecules represents a new frontier in drug discovery and
development. The rich structural diversity of folded RNAs offers a nearly unlimited reservoir …

Base editing rescue of spinal muscular atrophy in cells and in mice

M Arbab, Z Matuszek, KM Kray, A Du, GA Newby… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the leading genetic cause of infant mortality, arises from
survival motor neuron (SMN) protein insufficiency resulting from SMN1 loss. Approved …

Natural history of infantile‐onset spinal muscular atrophy

SJ Kolb, CS Coffey, JW Yankey… - Annals of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Infantile‐onset spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is the most common genetic cause
of infant mortality, typically resulting in death preceding age 2. Clinical trials in this …

Biodistribution of onasemnogene abeparvovec DNA, mRNA and SMN protein in human tissue

G Thomsen, AHM Burghes, C Hsieh, J Do, BTT Chu… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Spinal muscular atrophy type 1 (SMA1) is a debilitating neurodegenerative disease resulting
from survival motor neuron 1 gene (SMN1) deletion/mutation. Onasemnogene abeparvovec …

SMN2 splice modulators enhance U1–pre-mRNA association and rescue SMA mice

J Palacino, SE Swalley, C Song, AK Cheung… - Nature chemical …, 2015 - nature.com
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), which results from the loss of expression of the survival of
motor neuron-1 (SMN1) gene, represents the most common genetic cause of pediatric …

Spinal muscular atrophy: diagnosis and management in a new therapeutic era

WD Arnold, D Kassar, JT Kissel - Muscle & nerve, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) describes a group of disorders associated with spinal motor
neuron loss. In this review we provide an update regarding the most common form of SMA …

Diverse role of survival motor neuron protein

RN Singh, MD Howell, EW Ottesen… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The multifunctional Survival Motor Neuron (SMN) protein is required for the survival
of all organisms of the animal kingdom. SMN impacts various aspects of RNA metabolism …

SMN2 splicing modifiers improve motor function and longevity in mice with spinal muscular atrophy

NA Naryshkin, M Weetall, A Dakka, J Narasimhan… - science, 2014 - science.org
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a genetic disease caused by mutation or deletion of the
survival of motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene. A paralogous gene in humans, SMN2, produces …

Spinal muscular atrophy: why do low levels of survival motor neuron protein make motor neurons sick?

AHM Burghes, CE Beattie - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2009 - nature.com
Many neurogenetic disorders are caused by the mutation of ubiquitously expressed genes.
One such disorder, spinal muscular atrophy, is caused by loss or mutation of the survival …