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Hammerhead ribozymes selectively suppress mutant type I collagen mRNA in osteogenesis imperfecta fibroblasts.
Nucleic acids research - 15 Oct 2000
Dawson P A, Marini J C
Abstract excerpt
Ribozymes are a promising agent for the gene therapy of dominant negative genetic disorders by allele-specific mRNA suppression. To test allele-specific mRNA suppression in cells, we used fibroblasts from a patient with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). These cells contain a mutation in one alpha1(I) collagen allele which both causes the skeletal disorder and generates a novel ribozyme cleavage site. In a preliminary...
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