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ArticleRNA biology2022

Innovative developments and emerging technologies in RNA therapeutics.

François Halloy, Annabelle Biscans, Katherine E Bujold, Alexandre Debacker, Alyssa C Hill, Aurélie Lacroix, Olivia Luige, Roger Strömberg, Linda Sundstrom, Jörg Vogel and 1 more

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Article in RNA biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Solid Phase Chemical Synthesis of RNA.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  14. Recent Advances and Prospects in RNA Drug Development.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  17. RNA therapeutics.RNA biology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

François HalloyDepartment of Paediatrics, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2973-5820
Annabelle BiscansOligonucleotide Chemistry, Discovery Sciences, BioPharmaceuticals R&d, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Katherine E BujoldDepartment of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, McMaster University, (Ontario), Canada.
Alexandre DebackerMiNA Therapeutics, Translation & Innovation Hub, London, UK.
Alyssa C HillInstitute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Eth Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Aurélie LacroixSixfold Bioscience, Translation & Innovation Hub, London, UK.
Olivia LuigeDepartment of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.
Roger StrömbergDepartment of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.
Linda SundstromMechanistic and Structural Biology, Discovery Sciences, BioPharmaceuticals R&d, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Jörg VogelHelmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (Hiri), Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (Hzi), Würzburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2220-1404
Alice GhidiniMechanistic and Structural Biology, Discovery Sciences, BioPharmaceuticals R&d, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-1893-6504

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA-based therapeutics are emerging as a powerful platform for the treatment of multiple diseases. Currently, the two main categories of nucleic acid therapeutics, antisense oligonucleotides and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), achieve their therapeutic effect through either gene silencing, splicing modulation or microRNA binding, giving rise to versatile options to target pathogenic gene expression patterns. Moreover, ongoing research seeks to expand the scope of RNA-based drugs to include more complex nucleic acid templates, such as messenger RNA, as exemplified by the first approved mRNA-based vaccine in 2020. The increasing number of approved sequences and ongoing clinical trials has attracted considerable interest in the chemical development of oligonucleotides and nucleic acids as drugs, especially since the FDA approval of the first siRNA drug in 2018. As a result, a variety of innovative approaches is emerging, highlighting the potential of RNA as one of the most prominent therapeutic tools in the drug design and development pipeline. This review seeks to provide a comprehensive summary of current efforts in academia and industry aimed at fully realizing the potential of RNA-based therapeutics. Towards this, we introduce established and emerging RNA-based technologies, with a focus on their potential as biosensors and therapeutics. We then describe their mechanisms of action and their application in different disease contexts, along with the strengths and limitations of each strategy. Since the nucleic acid toolbox is rapidly expanding, we also introduce RNA minimal architectures, RNA/protein cleavers and viral RNA as promising modalities for new therapeutics and discuss future directions for the field.

Indexed as

Genetic TherapyResearchAnimalsBiotechnologyGene Transfer TechniquesHumansNanotechnologyOligonucleotides, AntisenseRNARNA, MessengerRNA, Small InterferingOligonucleotides, AntisenseRNARNA, MessengerRNA, Small Interferingantisensedeliverynucleic acid technologiesoligonucleotide based artificial ribonucleasesPROTACRNA-therapeuticssaRNAsiRNAviral RNA

Identifiers

PMID35188077
PMCPMC8865321

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