Expression of TNRC6 (GW182) Proteins Is Not Necessary for Gene Silencing by Fully Complementary RNA Duplexes.
Liu Z, Johnson ST, Zhang Z, Corey DR. Nucleic Acid Ther. 2019 Oct 31. . PubMed
Patient-Customized Oligonucleotide Therapy for a Rare Genetic Disease
Kim J, Hu C, Moufawad El Achkar C, Black LE, Douville J, Larson A, Pendergast MK, Goldkind SF, Lee EA, Kuniholm A, Soucy A, Vaze J, Belur NR, Fredriksen K, Stojkovska I, Tsytsykova A, Armant M, DiDonato RL, Choi J, Cornelissen L, Pereira LM, ...
Circular RNA Immunity
Presenter: Grace Chen (Yale School of Medicine) Date: March 25, 2020 Description: Circular RNAs are a newly appreciated class of ubiquitous and abundant RNAs. In the webinar, we will cover biological and chemical approaches to synthesize circular RNAs, how cells distinguish between endogenous and foreign circular RNAs, ...
Antisense Oligonucleotides- Mechanisms of Action and Rational Design
Presenter: Robert MacLeod (Ionis Pharmaceuticals) Date: February 26, 2020 Recording of the webinar: Click play to view Presenter Biography Robert MacLeod (Ionis Pharmaceuticals) Dr. MacLeod is currently the Vice President Oncology ...
Peptide-conjugated oligonucleotides evoke long-lasting myotonic dystrophy correction in patient-derived cells and mice
Klein AF, Varela MA, Arandel L, Holland A, Naouar N, Arzumanov A, Seoane D, Revillod L, Bassez G, Ferry A, Jauvin D, Gourdon G, Puymirat J, Gait MJ, Furling D, Wood MJ. J Clin Invest. 2019 Sep 30. Joint First Authors Klein ...
Interview with Peter A. Beal, PhD
Peter A. Beal, Ph.D., Professor Department of Chemistry University of California, Davis How did you become interested in the field of oligonucleotides? My interests in therapeutic oligonucleotides can be traced back to my time as an undergraduate student at the University of North Dakota. ...
2019 OTS Travel Grant Recipients
Leonora Abdullahu, McGill University Osama Ahmed, Karolinska Institutet Julia Alterman, RNA Therapeutics Institute, UMass Medical School Daniela AraĂºjo, Centre of Biological Engineering Christopher Barkau, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine Ivan Chernikov, Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy ...
Brain pharmacology of intrathecal antisense oligonucleotides revealed through multimodal imaging
Mazur C, Powers B, Zasadny K, Sullivan JM, Dimant H, Kamme F, Hesterman J, Matson J, Oestergaard M, Seaman M, Holt RW, Qutaish M, Polyak I, Coelho R, Gottumukkala V, Gaut CM, Berridge M, Albargothy NJ, Kelly L, Carare RO, Hoppin J, Kordasiewicz H, Swayze ...
A novel and translational role for autophagy in antisense oligonucleotide trafficking and activity
Ochaba J, Powers AF, Tremble KA, Greenlee S, Post NM, Matson JE, MacLeod AR, Guo S, Aghajan M. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 Oct 15. PubMed
Hepatic thrombopoietin gene silencing reduces platelet count and breast cancer progression in transgenic MMTV-PyMT mice
Shirai T, Revenko AS, Tibbitts J, Ngo ATP, Mitrugno A, Healy LD, Johnson J, Tucker EI, Hinds MT, Coussens LM, McCarty OJT, Monia BP, Gruber A. Blood Adv. 2019 Oct 22;3(20):3080-3091. PubMed