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ArticlePharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2013

Design of siRNA Therapeutics from the Molecular Scale.

Phillip Angart, Daniel Vocelle, Christina Chan, S Patrick Walton

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Article in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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20 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. In Vitro Methods to Decipher the Structure of Viral RNA Genomes.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021
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  17. siRNA Versus miRNA as Therapeutics for Gene Silencing.Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids · 2015
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Phillip AngartDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, 428 S. Shaw Lane, Room 2527, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA; angartph@msu.edu (P.A.); vocelled@msu.edu (D.V.); krischan@egr.msu.edu (C.C.).
Daniel Vocelle
Christina Chan
S Patrick Walton

Funding

Develop a Dynamic Model that Incoporates Text-mining to Reconstruct NetworksR01GM079688 · NIGMS · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI CHAN, CHRISTINA · 2007 to 2012
$1.2M
Maximizing siRNA Function through Mechanism-based Sequence and Vehicle DesignR01GM089866 · NIGMS · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI WALTON, STEPHEN PATRICK · 2010 to 2013
$922k
Development of a parallel, array-based transcription factor expression assayR21RR024439 · NCRR · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI WALTON, STEPHEN PATRICK · 2008 to 2010
$540k
Phenotype-Targeted Inference of Flux-Enzyme Correlations in Adipocyte MetabolismR56DK081768 · NIDDK · TUFTS UNIVERSITY MEDFORD · PI LEE, KYONGBUM · 2010 to 2011
$489k
Engineering an in vitro model of adipose tissue formation and metabolismR56DK088251 · NIDDK · TUFTS UNIVERSITY MEDFORD · PI LEE, KYONGBUM · 2010 to 2010
$205k
NCRR NIH HHS R21 RR024439NIDDK NIH HHS R56 DK081768NIDDK NIH HHS R56 DK088251NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM079688NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM089866
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While protein-based therapeutics is well-established in the market, development of nucleic acid therapeutics has lagged. Short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) represent an exciting new direction for the pharmaceutical industry. These small, chemically synthesized RNAs can knock down the expression of target genes through the use of a native eukaryotic pathway called RNA interference (RNAi). Though siRNAs are routinely used in research studies of eukaryotic biological processes, transitioning the technology to the clinic has proven challenging. Early efforts to design an siRNA therapeutic have demonstrated the difficulties in generating a highly-active siRNA with good specificity and a delivery vehicle that can protect the siRNA as it is transported to a specific tissue. In this review article, we discuss design considerations for siRNA therapeutics, identifying criteria for choosing therapeutic targets, producing highly-active siRNA sequences, and designing an optimized delivery vehicle. Taken together, these design considerations provide logical guidelines for generating novel siRNA therapeutics.

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delivery vehicle designliver cancerRNAisiRNA designsiRNA therapeutic

Identifiers

PMID23976875
PMCPMC3749788

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