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Structure-Specific Cleavage of an RNA Repeat Expansion with a Dimeric Small Molecule Is Advantageous over Sequence-Specific Recognition by an Oligonucleotide.
ACS chemical biology - 21 Feb 2020
Benhamou Raphael I, Angelbello Alicia J, Andrews Ryan J, Wang Eric T, Moss Walter N, Disney Matthew D
Abstract excerpt
Myotonic dystrophy type 2 (DM2) is a genetically defined muscular dystrophy that is caused by an expanded repeat of r(CCUG) [r(CCUG)exp] in intron 1 of a CHC-type zinc finger nucleic acid binding protein (CNBP) pre-mRNA. Various mechanisms contribute to DM2 pathology including pre-mRNA splicing defects caused by sequestration of the RNA splicing regulator muscleblind-like-1 (MBNL1) by r(CCUG)exp. Herein, we study...
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