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Morpholino antisense oligomers: the case for an RNase H-independent structural type.

James Summerton
- 10 Dec 1999 - 
- Vol. 1489, Iss: 1, pp 141-158
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In cell-free and cultured-cell systems where one wishes to block the translation of a messenger RNA coding for a normal protein, RNase H-independent morpholino antisense oligos provide complete resistance to nucleases, generally good targeting predictability, generally high in-cell efficacy, excellent sequence specificity, and very preliminary results suggest they may exhibit little non-antisense activity.
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This article is published in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta.The article was published on 1999-12-10. It has received 689 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: RNase P & RNase H.

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Docking protein SNT1 is a critical mediator of fibroblast growth factor signaling during Xenopus embryonic development.

TL;DR: It is shown that the Xenopus homolog of mammalian SNT1/FRS‐2 (XSNT1) plays a critical role in the appropriate formation of mesoderm‐derived tissue during embryogenesis and is required for early Xenopus development.
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Hoogsteen-Paired Homopurine [RP-PS]-DNA and Homopyrimidine RNA Strands Form a Thermally Stable Parallel Duplex

TL;DR: This work has shown that homopurine deoxyribonucleoside phosphorothioates possessing all internucleotide linkages of R(P) configuration form a duplex with an RNA or 2'-OMe-RNA strand with Hoogsteen complementarity that is thermally more stable than parallelHoogsteen duplexes and antiparallel Watson-Crick dupLexes formed by unmodified homopURine DNA molecules of the same sequence with corresponding RNA templates.
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Molecule for treating an inflammatory disorder

TL;DR: In this article, two types of oligonucleotides for treating an inflammatory disorder: an oligonotide which is able of altering the splicing of a pre-mRNA encoding a C5 in order to decrease the amount of C5a, and an oligoneotide which was able of changing the splice of an IL-1RAcP encoding a R-1RPCP to increase the number of soluble IL- 1RAcPs.
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Compound and method for treating androgen-independent prostate cancer

TL;DR: In this article, a morpholino antisense compound having uncharged phosphorus-containing backbone linkages and a base sequence that is complementary to a target region containing at least 12 contiguous bases in a preprocessed or processed human androgen receptor transcript was designed for treating prostate cancer in a subject having a hormone-refractory (androgen-independent) prostate cancer.

Physiological Role in Regulation of Ependymal Ciliary Function and Characteristics in Human Female Reproductive Tissues

TL;DR: Gai2 has a cilia-related physiological role in rat brain and it is hormonally regulated in the human female reproductive tract, with specific enrichment in the Fallopian tube cilia and endometrial glands.
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Cpg motifs in bacterial dna trigger direct b-cell activation

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The third helix of the Antennapedia homeodomain translocates through biological membranes

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Morpholino antisense oligomers: design, preparation, and properties.

TL;DR: An overview of the design, preparation, and properties of Morpholino oligos, a novel antisense structural type that solves the sequence specificity problem and provides high and predictable activity in cells.
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Intercellular trafficking and protein delivery by a herpesvirus structural protein.

Gillian Elliott, +1 more
- 24 Jan 1997 - 
TL;DR: It is shown that the HSV-1 structural protein VP22 has the remarkable property of intercellular transport, which is so efficient that following expression in a subpopulation the protein spreads to every cell in a monolayer, where it concentrates in the nucleus and binds chromatin.
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Evaluation of 2'-modified oligonucleotides containing 2'-deoxy gaps as antisense inhibitors of gene expression

TL;DR: The use of a previously described 17-mer phosphorothioate for structure-function analysis of 2'-sugar modifications and the results demonstrate the importance of target affinity in the action of antisense oligonucleotides and of RNase H as a mechanism by which these compounds exert their effects.
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