Article
Readthrough compounds for nonsense mutations: bridging the translational gap.
Trends in molecular medicine - 1 Apr 2023
Spelier Sacha, van Doorn Eveline P M, van der Ent Cornelis K, Beekman Jeffrey M, Koppens Martijn A J
Abstract excerpt
Approximately 10% of all pathological mutations are nonsense mutations that are responsible for several severe genetic diseases for which no treatment regimens are currently available. The most widespread strategy for treating nonsense mutations is by enhancing ribosomal readthrough of premature termination codons (PTCs) to restore the production of the full-length protein. In the past decade several compounds...
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- Humans
- Codon, Nonsense
- Mutation
- Ribosomes
