Publication Date:
2015-08-12
Description:
Article Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) can repress the expression of specific genes. Here, the authors show that a DNA/RNA heteroduplex oligonucleotide (HDO) with a structure different from ASOs is more potent in suppressing target gene expression, and causes a less adverse effect in mouse liver. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms8969 Authors: Kazutaka Nishina, Wenying Piao, Kie Yoshida-Tanaka, Yumiko Sujino, Tomoko Nishina, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Keiko Nitta, Kotaro Yoshioka, Hiroya Kuwahara, Hidenori Yasuhara, Takeshi Baba, Fumiko Ono, Kanjiro Miyata, Koichi Miyake, Punit P. Seth, Audrey Low, Masayuki Yoshida, C. Frank Bennett, Kazunori Kataoka, Hidehiro Mizusawa, Satoshi Obika, Takanori Yokota
Electronic ISSN:
2041-1723
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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