[HTML][HTML] Specificity of oligonucleotide gene therapy (OGT) agents

DD Nedorezova, MV Dubovichenko, EP Belyaeva… - Theranostics, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Oligonucleotide gene therapy (OGT) agents (eg antisense, deoxyribozymes, siRNA and
CRISPR/Cas) are promising therapeutic tools. Despite extensive efforts, only few OGT drugs …

Regulatory role of Non-canonical DNA Polymorphisms in human genome and their relevance in Cancer

N Pandya, SR Bhagwat, A Kumar - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Reviews on …, 2021 - Elsevier
DNA has the ability to form polymorphic structures like canonical duplex DNA and non-
canonical triplex DNA, Cruciform, Z-DNA, G-quadruplex (G4), i-motifs, and hairpin structures …

Many si/shRNAs can kill cancer cells by targeting multiple survival genes through an off-target mechanism

W Putzbach, QQ Gao, M Patel, S Van Dongen… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Over 80% of multiple-tested siRNAs and shRNAs targeting CD95 or CD95 ligand (CD95L)
induce a form of cell death characterized by simultaneous activation of multiple cell death …

Development and perspectives: multifunctional nucleic acid nanomedicines for treatment of gynecological cancers

T Korzun, AS Moses, P Diba, AL Sattler, B Olson… - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Gynecological malignancies are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality across the
globe. Due to delayed presentation, gynecological cancer patients are often referred late in …

Small interfering RNA s based on huntingtin trinucleotide repeats are highly toxic to cancer cells

AE Murmann, QQ Gao, WE Putzbach, M Patel… - EMBO …, 2018 - embopress.org
Trinucleotide repeat (TNR) expansions in the genome cause a number of degenerative
diseases. A prominent TNR expansion involves the triplet CAG in the huntingtin (HTT) gene …

An unbiased seed-based RNAi selection screen identifies small RNAs that inhibit androgen signaling and prostate cancer cell growth

JM Corbin, C Georgescu, L Wang, JD Wren… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2023 - cell.com
Blocking androgen receptor signaling is the mainstay of therapy for advanced prostate
cancer (PCa). However, acquired resistance to single agents targeting this pathway results …

6mer seed toxicity in tumor suppressive microRNAs

QQ Gao, WE Putzbach, AE Murmann, S Chen… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Many small-interfering (si) RNAs are toxic to cancer cells through a 6mer seed sequence
(positions 2–7 of the guide strand). Here we performed an siRNA screen with all 4096 6mer …

The ratio of toxic-to-Nontoxic mirnas predicts platinum sensitivity in ovarian cancer

M Patel, Y Wang, ET Bartom, R Dhir, KP Nephew… - Cancer research, 2021 - AACR
Ovarian cancer remains one of the deadliest gynecologic malignancies affecting women,
and development of resistance to platinum remains a major barrier to achieving a cure …

Nanoparticle-siRNA: a potential strategy for ovarian cancer therapy?

S Aghamiri, KF Mehrjardi, S Shabani… - …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Ovarian cancer is one of the most common causes of mortality throughout the world.
Unfortunately, chemotherapy has failed to cure advanced cancers developing multidrug …

DISE/6mer Seed Toxicity-A powerful anti-cancer mechanism with implications for other diseases

A Haluck-Kangas, M Patel, B Paudel… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract micro (mi) RNAs are short noncoding RNAs that through their seed sequence (pos.
2–7/8 of the guide strand) regulate cell function by targeting complementary sequences …