Peptide nucleic acid antisense oligomer as a therapeutic strategy against bacterial infection: proof of principle using mouse intraperitoneal infection.

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Antisense oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs) and their analogs have been successfully utilized to inhibit gene expression and bacterial growth in vitro or in cell culture. In this study, acpP-targeting antisense peptide nucleic acid (PNA) and its peptide conjugate were tested as potential antibacterial agents in two groups of experiments using a mouse model. In the first group, Escherichia coli mutant strain SM101 with...

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