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SUBMITTER: Mie Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5734696 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mie Yasuhiro Y Hirano Yu Y Kowata Keiko K Nakamura Akiyoshi A Yasunaga Mayu M Nakajima Yoshihiro Y Komatsu Yasuo Y
Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids 20171114
MicroRNA (miRNA)-guided argonaute (Ago) controls gene expression upon binding to the 3' UTR of mRNA. The miRNA function can be competitively inhibited by single-stranded anti-miRNA oligonucleotides (AMOs). In this study, we constructed a novel type of AMO flanked by interstrand cross-linked 2'-O-methylated RNA duplexes (CLs) that confer a stable helical conformation. Compared with other structured AMOs, AMO flanked by CLs at the 5' and 3' termini exhibited much higher inhibitory activity in cell ...[more]