Chapter title |
Designing Effective Antisense Oligonucleotides for Exon Skipping
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Chapter number | 10 |
Book title |
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, January 2018
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-7374-3_10 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-7373-6, 978-1-4939-7374-3
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Authors |
Takenori Shimo, Rika Maruyama, Toshifumi Yokota, Shimo, Takenori, Maruyama, Rika, Yokota, Toshifumi |
Abstract |
During the past 10 years, antisense oligonucleotide-mediated exon skipping and splice modulation have proven to be powerful tools for correction of mRNA splicing in genetic diseases. In 2016, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved Exondys 51 (eteplirsen) and Spinraza (nusinersen), the first exon skipping and exon inclusion drugs, to treat patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), respectively. The exon skipping of DMD mRNA aims to restore the disrupted reading frame using antisense oligonucleotides (AONs), allowing the production of truncated but partly functional dystrophin proteins, and slow down the progression of the disease. This approach has also been explored in several other genetic disorders, including laminin α2 chain-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy, dysferlin-deficient muscular dystrophy (e.g., Miyoshi myopathy and limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2B), sarcoglycanopathy (limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2C), and Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy. Antisense-mediated exon skipping is also a powerful tool to examine the function of genes and exons. A significant challenge in exon skipping is how to design effective AONs. The mechanism of mRNA splicing is highly complex with many factors involved. The selection of target sites, the length of AONs, the AON chemistry, and the melting temperature versus the RNA strand play important roles. A cocktail of AONs can be employed to skip multiples exons. In this chapter, we discuss the design of effective AONs for exon skipping. |
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