Pharmaceutical composition comprising anti-miRNA antisense oligonucleotides

The invention provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising short single stranded oligonucleotides, of length of between 8 and 26 nucleobases which are complementary to human microRNAs selected from the group consisting of miR19b, miR21, miR122a, miR155 and miR375. The short oligonucleotides are p...

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Main Authors KEARNEY, PHIL, KAUPPINEN, SAKARI, ELMEN, JOACIM
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 13.09.2012
Subjects
BEER
BIOCHEMISTRY
CHEMISTRY
COMPOSITIONS THEREOF
CULTURE MEDIA
DERIVATIVES THEREOF
ENZYMOLOGY
HUMAN NECESSITIES
HYGIENE
MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE
METALLURGY
MICROBIOLOGY
MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES
MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING
NUCLEIC ACIDS
NUCLEOSIDES
NUCLEOTIDES
ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES
PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS
SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS
SPIRITS
SUGARS
VINEGAR
WINE
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Summary:The invention provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising short single stranded oligonucleotides, of length of between 8 and 26 nucleobases which are complementary to human microRNAs selected from the group consisting of miR19b, miR21, miR122a, miR155 and miR375. The short oligonucleotides are particularly effective at alleviating miRNA repression in vivo. It is found that the incorporation of high affinity nucleotide analogues into the oligonucleotides results in highly effective anti-microRNA molecules which appear to function via the formation of almost irreversible duplexes with the miRNA target, rather than RNA cleavage based mechanisms, such as mechanisms associated with RNaseH or RISC.
Bibliography:Application Number: AU20120216487