ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2005
The structural basis of myotonic dystrophy from the crystal structure of CUG repeats.
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- A pothole-filling strategy for selective targeting of rCUG-repeats associated with myotonic dystrophy type 1.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
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- Myotonic dystrophy type 1: clinical diversity, molecular insights and therapeutic perspectives.Nature reviews. Neurology · 2025Review
- Synthesis of Janus Bases for Targeting C‑G and U-U Pairs of CUG-RNA Repeats Associated with Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1.ACS omega · 2025Article
- Streamlined Fragment-Based Discovery Platform for Targeting Structured RNAs.ACS chemical biology · 2025Article
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- NMR structures of small molecules bound to a model of an RNA CUG repeat expansion.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Myotonic dystrophy (DM) type 1 is associated with an expansion of (>50) CTG repeats within the 3' untranslated region (UTR) of the dystrophin myotonin protein kinase gene (dmpk). In the corresponding mRNA transcript, the CUG repeats form an extended stem-loop structure. The double-stranded RNA of the stem sequesters RNA binding proteins away from their normal cellular targets resulting in aberrant transcription, alternative splicing patterns, or both, thereby leading to DM. To better understand the structural basis of DM type 1, we determined to 1.58-A resolution the x-ray crystal structure of an 18-bp RNA containing six CUG repeats. The CUG repeats form antiparallel double-stranded helices that stack end-on-end in the crystal to form infinite, pseudocontinuous helices similar to the long CUG stem loops formed by the expanded CUG repeats in DM type 1. The CUG helix is very similar in structure to A-form RNA with the exception of the unique U-U mismatches. This structure provides a high-resolution view of a toxic, trinucleotide repeat RNA.
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