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Next-generation peptide nucleic acid chimeras exhibit high affinity and potent gene silencing

Next-generation peptide nucleic acid chimeras exhibit high affinity and potent gene silencing
Next-generation peptide nucleic acid chimeras exhibit high affinity and potent gene silencing

We present a new design of mixed-backbone antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) containing both DNA and peptide nucleic acid (PNA). Previous generations of PNA-DNA chimeras showed low binding affinity, reducing their potential as therapeutics. The addition of a 5'-wing of locked nucleic acid as well as the combination of a modified nucleotide and a PNA monomer at the junction between PNA and DNA yielded high-affinity chimeras. The resulting ASOs demonstrated high serum stability and elicited robust RNase H-mediated cleavage of complementary RNA. These properties allowed the chimeric ASOs to demonstrate high gene silencing efficacy and potency in cells, comparable with those of LNA gapmer ASOs, via both lipid transfection and gymnosis.

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Debacker, Alexandre J.
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Sharma, Vivek K.
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O'Reilly, Daniel
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Greenhill, Rachel
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Watts, Jonathan K.
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Debacker, Alexandre J.
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Debacker, Alexandre J., Sharma, Vivek K., Meda Krishnamurthy, Pranathi, O'Reilly, Daniel, Greenhill, Rachel and Watts, Jonathan K. (2019) Next-generation peptide nucleic acid chimeras exhibit high affinity and potent gene silencing. Biochemistry, 58 (6), 582-589. (doi:10.1021/acs.biochem.8b00827).

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Abstract

We present a new design of mixed-backbone antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) containing both DNA and peptide nucleic acid (PNA). Previous generations of PNA-DNA chimeras showed low binding affinity, reducing their potential as therapeutics. The addition of a 5'-wing of locked nucleic acid as well as the combination of a modified nucleotide and a PNA monomer at the junction between PNA and DNA yielded high-affinity chimeras. The resulting ASOs demonstrated high serum stability and elicited robust RNase H-mediated cleavage of complementary RNA. These properties allowed the chimeric ASOs to demonstrate high gene silencing efficacy and potency in cells, comparable with those of LNA gapmer ASOs, via both lipid transfection and gymnosis.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 6 December 2018
Published date: 12 February 2019

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Local EPrints ID: 428956
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/428956
ISSN: 0006-2960
PURE UUID: 6f62a372-5138-4540-8bd9-be979fde89f6

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Date deposited: 15 Mar 2019 17:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 00:26

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Author: Alexandre J. Debacker
Author: Vivek K. Sharma
Author: Pranathi Meda Krishnamurthy
Author: Daniel O'Reilly
Author: Rachel Greenhill
Author: Jonathan K. Watts

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