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Design principles for bifunctional targeted oligonucleotide enhancers of splicing
Controlling the patterns of splicing of specific genes is an important goal in the development of new therapies. We have shown that the splicing of a refractory exon, SMN2 exon 7, could be increased in fibroblasts derived from patients with spinal muscular atrophy by using bifunctional targeted olig...
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2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3167598/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21602265 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkr152 |
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author | Owen, Nicholas Zhou, Haiyan Malygin, Alexey A. Sangha, Jason Smith, Lindsay D. Muntoni, Francesco Eperon, Ian C. |
author_facet | Owen, Nicholas Zhou, Haiyan Malygin, Alexey A. Sangha, Jason Smith, Lindsay D. Muntoni, Francesco Eperon, Ian C. |
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description | Controlling the patterns of splicing of specific genes is an important goal in the development of new therapies. We have shown that the splicing of a refractory exon, SMN2 exon 7, could be increased in fibroblasts derived from patients with spinal muscular atrophy by using bifunctional targeted oligonucleotide enhancers of splicing (TOES) oligonucleotides that anneal to the exon and contain a ‘tail’ of enhancer sequences that recruit activating proteins. We show here that there are striking agreements between the effects of oligonucleotides on splicing in vitro and on both splicing and SMN2 protein expression in patient-derived fibroblasts, indicating that the effects on splicing are the major determinant of success. Increased exon inclusion depends on the number, sequence and chemistry of the motifs that bind the activator protein SRSF1, but it is not improved by increasing the strength of annealing to the target site. The optimal oligonucleotide increases protein levels in transfected fibroblasts by a mean value of 2.6-fold (maximum 4.6-fold), and after two rounds of transfection the effect lasted for a month. Oligonucleotides targeted to the upstream exon (exon 6 in SMN) are also effective. We conclude that TOES oligonucleotides are highly effective reagents for restoring the splicing of refractory exons and can act across long introns. |
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spelling | pubmed-31675982011-09-06 Design principles for bifunctional targeted oligonucleotide enhancers of splicing Owen, Nicholas Zhou, Haiyan Malygin, Alexey A. Sangha, Jason Smith, Lindsay D. Muntoni, Francesco Eperon, Ian C. Nucleic Acids Res RNA Controlling the patterns of splicing of specific genes is an important goal in the development of new therapies. We have shown that the splicing of a refractory exon, SMN2 exon 7, could be increased in fibroblasts derived from patients with spinal muscular atrophy by using bifunctional targeted oligonucleotide enhancers of splicing (TOES) oligonucleotides that anneal to the exon and contain a ‘tail’ of enhancer sequences that recruit activating proteins. We show here that there are striking agreements between the effects of oligonucleotides on splicing in vitro and on both splicing and SMN2 protein expression in patient-derived fibroblasts, indicating that the effects on splicing are the major determinant of success. Increased exon inclusion depends on the number, sequence and chemistry of the motifs that bind the activator protein SRSF1, but it is not improved by increasing the strength of annealing to the target site. The optimal oligonucleotide increases protein levels in transfected fibroblasts by a mean value of 2.6-fold (maximum 4.6-fold), and after two rounds of transfection the effect lasted for a month. Oligonucleotides targeted to the upstream exon (exon 6 in SMN) are also effective. We conclude that TOES oligonucleotides are highly effective reagents for restoring the splicing of refractory exons and can act across long introns. Oxford University Press 2011-09 2011-05-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3167598/ /pubmed/21602265 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkr152 Text en © The Author(s) 2011. Published by Oxford University Press. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | RNA Owen, Nicholas Zhou, Haiyan Malygin, Alexey A. Sangha, Jason Smith, Lindsay D. Muntoni, Francesco Eperon, Ian C. Design principles for bifunctional targeted oligonucleotide enhancers of splicing |
title | Design principles for bifunctional targeted oligonucleotide enhancers of splicing |
title_full | Design principles for bifunctional targeted oligonucleotide enhancers of splicing |
title_fullStr | Design principles for bifunctional targeted oligonucleotide enhancers of splicing |
title_full_unstemmed | Design principles for bifunctional targeted oligonucleotide enhancers of splicing |
title_short | Design principles for bifunctional targeted oligonucleotide enhancers of splicing |
title_sort | design principles for bifunctional targeted oligonucleotide enhancers of splicing |
topic | RNA |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3167598/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21602265 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkr152 |
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