ArticleNucleic acids research2015
Efficient production of superior dumbbell-shaped DNA minimal vectors for small hairpin RNA expression.
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- One-pot making of sequence-restricted DNA dumbbells.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Non-Covalent Linkage of Helper Functions to Dumbbell-Shaped DNA Vectors for Targeted Delivery.Pharmaceutics · 2023Article
- A Brief Introduction to Current Cancer Gene Therapy.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Circular dumbbell miR-34a-3p and -5p suppresses pancreatic tumor cell-induced angiogenesis and activates macrophages.Oncology letters · 2021Article
- Universal Template-Assisted, Cloning-free Method for the Generation of Small RNA-Expressing Dumbbell-Shaped DNA Vectors.Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development · 2019Article
- Advanced Design of Dumbbell-shaped Genetic Minimal Vectors Improves Non-coding and Coding RNA Expression.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2016Article
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Abstract
Genetic therapy holds great promise for the treatment of inherited or acquired genetic diseases; however, its breakthrough is hampered by the lack of suitable gene delivery systems. Dumbbell-shaped DNA minimal vectors represent an attractive, safe alternative to the commonly used viral vectors which are fraught with risk, but dumbbell generation appears to be costly and time-consuming. We developed a new PCR-based method for dumbbell production which comprises only two steps. First, PCR amplification of the therapeutic expression cassette using chemically modified primers to form a ready-to-ligate DNA structure; and second, a highly efficient intramolecular ligation reaction. Compared with conventional strategies, the new method produces dumbbell vectors more rapidly, with higher yields and purity, and at lower costs. In addition, such produced small hairpin RNA expressing dumbbells triggered superior target gene knockdown compared with conventionally produced dumbbells or plasmids. Our novel method is suitable for large-scale dumbbell production and can facilitate clinical applications of this vector system.
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