The current landscape of nucleic acid therapeutics

JA Kulkarni, D Witzigmann, SB Thomson… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The increasing number of approved nucleic acid therapeutics demonstrates the potential to
treat diseases by targeting their genetic blueprints in vivo. Conventional treatments …

Antisense technology: an overview and prospectus

ST Crooke, BF Baker, RM Crooke… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Antisense technology is now beginning to deliver on its promise to treat diseases by
targeting RNA. Nine single-stranded antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) drugs representing …

[HTML][HTML] Gene regulation by long non-coding RNAs and its biological functions

L Statello, CJ Guo, LL Chen, M Huarte - Nature reviews Molecular cell …, 2021 - nature.com
Evidence accumulated over the past decade shows that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs)
are widely expressed and have key roles in gene regulation. Recent studies have begun to …

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 …

Therapeutic siRNA: state of the art

B Hu, L Zhong, Y Weng, L Peng, Y Huang… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
ABSTRACT RNA interference (RNAi) is an ancient biological mechanism used to defend
against external invasion. It theoretically can silence any disease-related genes in a …

Delivery of oligonucleotide‐based therapeutics: challenges and opportunities

SM Hammond, A Aartsma‐Rus, S Alves… - EMBO molecular …, 2021 - embopress.org
Nucleic acid‐based therapeutics that regulate gene expression have been developed
towards clinical use at a steady pace for several decades, but in recent years the field has …

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 …

Recent progress in non-native nucleic acid modifications

LK McKenzie, R El-Khoury, JD Thorpe… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
While Nature harnesses RNA and DNA to store, read and write genetic information, the
inherent programmability, synthetic accessibility and wide functionality of these nucleic acids …

Antisense oligonucleotides: the next frontier for treatment of neurological disorders

C Rinaldi, MJA Wood - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2018 - nature.com
Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) were first discovered to influence RNA processing and
modulate protein expression over two decades ago; however, progress translating these …

Chemistry, mechanism and clinical status of antisense oligonucleotides and duplex RNAs

X Shen, DR Corey - Nucleic acids research, 2018 - academic.oup.com
RNA plays a central role in the expression of all genes. Because any sequence within RNA
can be recognized by complementary base pairing, synthetic oligonucleotides and …