Magnesium accumulation upon cyclin M4 silencing activates microsomal triglyceride transfer protein improving NASH
Simón J, Goikoetxea-Usandizaga N, Serrano-Maciá M, Fernández-Ramos D, Sáenz de Urturi D, Gruskos JJ, Fernández-Tussy P, Lachiondo-Ortega S, González-Recio I, Rodríguez-Agudo R, Gutiérrez-de-Juan V, Rodríguez-Iruretagoyena B, Varela-Rey M, Gimenez-Mascarell P, Mercado-Gomez M, Gómez-Santos B, Fernandez-Rodriguez C, Lopitz-Otsoa F, Bizkarguenaga M, Dames S, Schaeper U, Martin ...
Binding of phosphorothioate oligonucleotides with RNase H1 can cause conformational changes in the protein and alter the interactions of RNase H1 with other proteins
Zhang L, Vickers TA, Sun H, Liang XH, Crooke ST. Nucleic Acids Res. 2021 Feb 12:gkab078. Pubmed
Variant-selective stereopure oligonucleotides protect against pathologies associated with C9orf72-repeat expansion in preclinical models
Liu Y, Dodart JC, Tran H, Berkovitch S, Braun M, Byrne M, Durbin AF, Hu XS, Iwamoto N, Jang HG, Kandasamy P, Liu F, Longo K, Ruschel J, Shelke J, Yang H, Yin Y, Donner A, Zhong Z, Vargeese C, Brown RH Jr. Nat Commun. ...
Short antisense oligonucleotides alleviate the pleiotropic toxicity of RNA harboring expanded CGG repeats
Derbis M, Kul E, Niewiadomska D, Sekrecki M, Piasecka A, Taylor K, Hukema RK, Stork O, Sobczak K. Nat Commun. 2021 Feb 24;12(1):1265. Pubmed
Joint December 2020 Papers of the Month
Polack FP, Thomas SJ, Kitchin N, Absalon J, Gurtman A, Lockhart S, Perez JL, Pérez Marc G, Moreira ED, Zerbini C, Bailey R, Swanson KA, Roychoudhury S, Koury K, Li P, Kalina WV, Cooper D, Frenck RW Jr, Hammitt LL, Türeci Ö, Nell H, Schaefer A, Ünal S, Tresnan DB, Mather S, Dormitzer PR, Şahin U, Jansen KU, Gruber WC; C4591001 Clinical Trial Group.
November 2020 Paper of the Month
Building on previous work, here Asami, Nagata, Yoshioka and colleagues from the Tokyo Medical and Dental University and Ionis Pharmaceuticals investigate new heteroduplex oligonucleotide (HDO) designs for antisense oligonucleotides.