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A short phosphodiester window is sufficient to direct RNase H-dependent RNA cleavage by antisense peptide nucleic acid

Malchere, C.; Verheijen, J.; van der Laan, S.; Bastide, L.; van Boom, J.; Lebleu, B.; Robbins, I.

Antisense Nucleic Acid Drug Dev

2000-12 / vol 10 / pages 463-8

Abstract

The potential pharmacologic benefits of using peptide nucleic acid (PNA) as an antisense agent are tempered by its incapacity to activate RNase H. The mixed backbone oligonucleotide (ON) (or gapmer) approach, in which a short internal window of RNAse H-competent residues is embedded within an RNase H-incompetent ON has not been applied previously to PNA because PNA and DNA hybridize to RNA with very different helical structures, creating structural perturbations at the two PNA-DNA junctions. It is demonstrated here for the first time that a short internal phosphodiester window within a PNA is sufficient to evoke the RNase H-dependent cleavage of a targeted RNA and to abrogate translation elongation in a well-characterized in vitro assay.

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Animals; Catalysis; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; DNA/chemistry; Rabbits; Cell-Free System; Escherichia coli/enzymology; Gene Targeting; Oligonucleotides, Antisense/chemistry/*pharmacology; Oligonucleotides/*pharmacology; Peptide Nucleic Acids/chemistry/*pharmacology; Polymers/pharmacology; Protein Biosynthesis/drug effects; Ribonuclease H/drug effects/genetics/*metabolism; RNA, Messenger/drug effects/*metabolism

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