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Developing Bivalent Ligands to Target CUG Triplet Repeats, the Causative Agent of Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1
4 Nov 2013
Abstract excerpt
An expanded CUG repeat transcript (CUG(exp)) is the causative agent of myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) by sequestering muscleblind-like 1 protein (MBNL1), a regulator of alternative splicing. On the basis of a ligand (1) that was previously reported to be active in an in vitro assay, we present the synthesis of a small library containing 10 dimeric ligands (4-13) that differ in length, composition, and attachment...
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