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ReviewBioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy2023

RNA Targeting and Gene Editing Strategies for Transthyretin Amyloidosis.

Adam Ioannou, Marianna Fontana, Julian D Gillmore

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Review in BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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41citing papers in PubMed
12.0field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed, 79 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Adam IoannouNational Amyloidosis Centre, Royal Free Hospital, University College London, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London, NW3 2PF, UK.
Marianna FontanaNational Amyloidosis Centre, Royal Free Hospital, University College London, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London, NW3 2PF, UK.
Julian D GillmoreNational Amyloidosis Centre, Royal Free Hospital, University College London, Royal Free Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London, NW3 2PF, UK. j.gillmore@ucl.ac.uk.
Roland Hill (United Kingdom) · GB

Funding

British Heart Foundation FS/18/21/33447
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transthyretin (TTR) is a tetrameric protein synthesized primarily by the liver. TTR can misfold into pathogenic ATTR amyloid fibrils that deposit in the nerves and heart, causing a progressive and debilitating polyneuropathy (PN) and life-threatening cardiomyopathy (CM). Therapeutic strategies, which are aimed at reducing ongoing ATTR amyloid fibrillogenesis, include stabilization of the circulating TTR tetramer or reduction of TTR synthesis. Small interfering RNA (siRNA) or antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) drugs are highly effective at disrupting the complementary mRNA and inhibiting TTR synthesis. Since their development, patisiran (siRNA), vutrisiran (siRNA) and inotersen (ASO) have all been licensed for treatment of ATTR-PN, and early data suggest these drugs may have efficacy in treating ATTR-CM. An ongoing phase 3 clinical trial will evaluate the efficacy of eplontersen (ASO) in the treatment of both ATTR-PN and ATTR-CM, and a recent phase 1 trial demonstrated the safety of novel in vivo CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing therapy in patients with ATTR amyloidosis. Recent results from trials of gene silencer and gene-editing therapies suggest these novel therapeutic agents have the potential to substantially alter the landscape of treatment for ATTR amyloidosis. Their success has already changed the perception of ATTR amyloidosis from a universally progressive and fatal disease to one that is treatable through availability of highly specific and effective disease-modifying therapies. However, important questions remain including long-term safety of these drugs, potential for off-target gene editing, and how best to monitor the cardiac response to treatment.Kindly check and confirm the processed running title.This is correct.

Indexed as

Amyloid Neuropathies, FamilialGene EditingHumansOligonucleotides, AntisenseRNA, Small InterferingOligonucleotides, AntisenseRNA, Small Interfering

Identifiers

PMID36795354
PMCPMC9933836
OpenAlexW4321004084

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