Nonsense-mediated decay as a terminating mechanism for antisense oligonucleotides

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Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) are synthetic oligonucleotides that alter expression of disease-associated transcripts via Watson-Crick hybridization. ASOs that function through RNase H or the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) result in enzymatic degradation of target RNA. ASOs designed to sterically block access of proteins to the RNA modulate mRNA metabolism but do not typically cause degradation. Here, we...

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