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Transcriptional adaptation

On the mechanism behind many differing phenotypes of morphants and mutants.

Sztal TE, Stainier DYR. Transcriptional adaptation: a mechanism underlying genetic robustness. Development. 2020 Aug 14;147(15):dev186452. doi: 10.1242/dev.186452.
https://dev.biologists.org/content/147/15/dev186452

Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - 10:48
Specificity test failed: Morpholino in a mutant

This paper presents an example of a Morpholino off-target effect shown by testing the Morpholino in a CRISPR mutants.

Jiang Z, Carlantoni C, Allanki S, Ebersberger I, Stainier DYR. Tek/Tie2 is not required for cardiovascular development in zebrafish. Development. 2020 Sep 14:dev.193029. doi: 10.1242/dev.193029. Online ahead of print.

https://dev.biologists.org/content/early/2020/09/12/dev.193029

Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - 08:44
(Paper) Modified nucleic acids: replication, evolution, and next-generation therapeutics

Overview of nucleic acid analogs, including which are approved as drugs.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7469316/

Monday, September 14, 2020 - 13:10
Review: Therapeutic Strategies for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Sun C, Shen L, Zhang Z, Xie X. Therapeutic Strategies for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: An Update. Genes. 2020;11:837. doi:10.3390/genes11080837
Open-access review article
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/11/8/837

Thursday, July 23, 2020 - 10:49
Targeting alternative splicing to upregulate protein expression

Potential application in antisense therapeutics: upregulation of targeted protein expression

Here is a new paper demonstrating techniques for targeting steric-blocking antisense oligos to alternatively-spliced transcripts undergoing NMD to alter the splicing and recover transcripts encoding useful proteins. This is a technique for antisense upregulation of a protein activity.

Thursday, July 9, 2020 - 13:45
Clinical antisense review (2020)

Clinical antisense review
Dhuri K, Bechtold C, Quijano E, Pham H, Gupta A, Vikram A, Bahal R. Antisense Oligonucleotides: An Emerging Area in Drug Discovery and Development. J Clin Med. 2020;9(6):2004. doi:10.3390/jcm9062004
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/9/6/2004

Friday, June 26, 2020 - 12:18
Retention of the last intron

Here are a few publications addressing Morpholinos and retention of the last intron.

See the section: Retention of wnt11b Intron 4 Recapitulates the Failure to Form Somites in tra2b Morphants
Dichmann DS, Walentek P, Harland RM. The Alternative Splicing Regulator Tra2b Is Required for Somitogenesis and Regulates Splicing of an Inhibitory Wnt11b Isoform. Cell Rep. 2015 Jan 21. pii: S2211-1247(14)01099-7. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2014.12.046. [Epub ahead of print].
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25620705

Wednesday, May 6, 2020 - 09:43
Presentations/posters from the 2020 MDA conference involving Morpholinos

Long-term Safety & Efficacy of Golodirsen in Male Patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Amenable to Exon 53 Skipping
https://mdaconference.org/node/936

PMO-based miRNA site blocking oligo (SBO) mediated utrophin upregulation in mdx mice, a therapeutic approach for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)
https://mdaconference.org/node/1000

Thursday, March 26, 2020 - 16:00
Viltepso (Morpholino drug) approved for DMD in Japan

Nippon Shinyaku has received marketing approval in Japan for Viltepso, a Morpholino targeting human dystrophin exon 53 for treatment of some mutations causing Duchenne muscular dystrophy. https://www.nippon-shinyaku.co.jp/file/download.php?file_id=2965

Wednesday, March 25, 2020 - 09:44
Report of compensation in mutants

Genetic Compensation of γ CaMKII, an Evolutionarily Conserved Gene.

Rothschild SC, Ingram SR, Lu FI, Thisse B, Thisse C, Parkerson JA, Tombes RM.

Gene. 2020 Mar 9:144567. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2020.144567. [Epub ahead of print]

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378111920302365

Monday, March 16, 2020 - 09:51

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