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Morpholino for antibody validation - example

Webb AB, Lengyel IM, Jörg DJ, Valentin G, Jülicher F, Morelli LG, Oates AC. Persistence, period and precision of autonomous cellular oscillators from the zebrafish segmentation clock. Elife. 2016 Feb 13;5. pii: e08438. doi: 10.7554/eLife.08438.
http://elifesciences.org/content/5/e08438v2

Friday, April 1, 2016 - 13:41
Splicing outcomes: targeting for exon skipping or intron inclusion

Someone asked me why some Morpholinos usually cause exon skips and others cause intron inclusions...

U1 and U2 (or U11 and U12) snRNPs mark the positions on pre-mRNA of the splice junctions for the spliceosome. There is a U1 snRNP that binds in the intron near the e2i2 junction and a U2 snRNP that binds on the other side of the intron at the i2e3 junction.

Figure 1
Figure showing normal RNA splicing.

Wednesday, March 23, 2016 - 15:12
RNA therapeutics: beyond RNA interference and antisense oligonucleotides

Nice review, a few years old, describing Morpholinos and other antisense as therapeutics.

RNA therapeutics: beyond RNA interference and antisense oligonucleotides.
Kole R, Krainer AR, Altman S.
Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2012 Jan 20;11(2):125-40. doi: 10.1038/nrd3625. Review.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4743652/

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 12:14
A nucleic acid binder, poor at binding MO

Sen D, Patel G, Patel SS. Homologous DNA strand exchange activity of the human mitochondrial DNA helicase TWINKLE. Nucl Acids Res. 2016;[Epub ahead of print] doi:10.1093/nar/gkw098

https://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/02/16/nar.gkw098.full

DNA binds in the protein TWINKLE, but Morpholino is very poor at that binding. No surprise, it's likely due to lack of charge, but this is a nice published example of the low-binding characteristic.

Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - 09:42
Antisense oligonucleotide-directed inhibition of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay

Here's an interesting technique: inhibition of nonsense-mediated decay with oligos. I don't think the antisense oligos were Morpholinos.

Antisense oligonucleotide-directed inhibition of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay.
Nomakuchi TT, Rigo F, Aznarez I, Krainer AR.
Nat Biotechnol. 2015 Dec 14. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3427. [Epub ahead of print]

http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nbt.3427.html

Tuesday, February 2, 2016 - 10:24
Use of Morpholinos to Regulate Gene Expression in the Brain

Here is a review of tools to manipulate gene expression in the brain. Just before the Conclusion is the section "Use of Morpholinos to Regulate Gene Expression in the Brain".

Walters BJ, Azam AB, Gillon CJ, Josselyn SA, Zovkic IB. Advanced In vivo Use of CRISPR/Cas9 and Anti-sense DNA Inhibition for Gene Manipulation in the Brain. Front Genet. 2016. doi:10.3389/fgene.2015.00362

http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fgene.2015.00362/full

Monday, January 25, 2016 - 11:18
Morpholino-driven gene editing: A new horizon for disease treatment and prevention

Though I did in the early days of commercial Morpholinos, now I generally don't enter review articles into the Morpholino database. This one came along and I want to keep a record of it, particularly for the list of diseases in Table 1. So, it goes here.

Subbotina E, Koganti SR, Hodgson-Zingman D, Zingman LV. Morpholino-driven gene editing: A new horizon for disease treatment and prevention. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2015 Oct 16. doi: 10.1002/cpt.276. [Epub ahead of print]

Thursday, December 17, 2015 - 13:44
Example of splice enhancer targeting

Liquori A, Vaché C, Baux D, Blanchet C, Hamel C, Malcolm S, Koenig M, Claustres M, Roux AF. Whole USH2A Gene Sequencing Identifies Several New Deep Intronic Mutations. Hum Mutat. 2015 Nov 2. doi: 10.1002/humu.22926. [Epub ahead of print]

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/humu.22926/abstract

Thursday, December 3, 2015 - 09:40
Bathing zebrafish embryos with Vivo-Morpholinos

Wong TT, Zohar Y. Production of reproductively sterile fish by a non-transgenic gene silencing technology. Sci Rep. 2015 Oct 29;5:15822. doi: 10.1038/srep15822.
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep15822

This group bathed zebrafish embryos (with chorion intact) in Vivo-Morpholino solutions, with oligos targeting dead-end (dnd).

Monday, November 2, 2015 - 10:09
Genetic compensation induced by deleterious mutations but not gene knockdowns

When assessing gene function, gene knockdown reveals what can be hidden by compensation in mutants

Rossi A, Kontarakis Z, Gerri C, Nolte H, Hölper S, Krüger M, Stainier DYR. Genetic compensation induced by deleterious mutations but not gene knockdowns. Nature. 2015;[Epub ahead of print] doi:10.1038/nature14580
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14580

Monday, July 13, 2015 - 11:15

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