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ReviewNucleic acids research2023

Chemistry, structure and function of approved oligonucleotide therapeutics.

Martin Egli, Muthiah Manoharan

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Review in Nucleic acids research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 425 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

425 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Martin EgliDepartment of Biochemistry, Center for Structural Biology, and Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232-0146, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4145-356X
Muthiah ManoharanAlnylam Pharmaceuticals, 300 Third Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7931-1172

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Eighteen nucleic acid therapeutics have been approved for treatment of various diseases in the last 25 years. Their modes of action include antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs), splice-switching oligonucleotides (SSOs), RNA interference (RNAi) and an RNA aptamer against a protein. Among the diseases targeted by this new class of drugs are homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, spinal muscular atrophy, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis, familial chylomicronemia syndrome, acute hepatic porphyria, and primary hyperoxaluria. Chemical modification of DNA and RNA was central to making drugs out of oligonucleotides. Oligonucleotide therapeutics brought to market thus far contain just a handful of first- and second-generation modifications, among them 2'-fluoro-RNA, 2'-O-methyl RNA and the phosphorothioates that were introduced over 50 years ago. Two other privileged chemistries are 2'-O-(2-methoxyethyl)-RNA (MOE) and the phosphorodiamidate morpholinos (PMO). Given their importance in imparting oligonucleotides with high target affinity, metabolic stability and favorable pharmacokinetic and -dynamic properties, this article provides a review of these chemistries and their use in nucleic acid therapeutics. Breakthroughs in lipid formulation and GalNAc conjugation of modified oligonucleotides have paved the way to efficient delivery and robust, long-lasting silencing of genes. This review provides an account of the state-of-the-art of targeted oligo delivery to hepatocytes.

Indexed as

Oligonucleotides, AntisenseHumansMorpholinosMuscular Dystrophy, DuchenneRNARNA InterferenceMorpholinosOligonucleotides, AntisenseRNA

Identifiers

PMID36881759
PMCPMC10085713

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