Dynamics of Co-Transcriptional Pre-mRNA Folding Influences the Induction of Dystrophin Exon Skipping by Antisense Oligonucleotides

dc.contributor.authorWee, Keng Boon
dc.contributor.authorDwi Pramono, Zacharias Aloysius
dc.contributor.authorWang, Jian Li
dc.contributor.authorMacDorman, Karl F.
dc.contributor.authorLai, Poh San
dc.contributor.authorYee, Woon Chee
dc.contributor.departmentHuman-Centered Computing, School of Informatics and Computingen_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-25T20:10:54Z
dc.date.available2021-01-25T20:10:54Z
dc.date.issued2008-03-26
dc.description.abstractAntisense oligonucleotides (AONs) mediated exon skipping offers potential therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. However, the identification of effective AON target sites remains unsatisfactory for lack of a precise method to predict their binding accessibility. This study demonstrates the importance of co-transcriptional pre-mRNA folding in determining the accessibility of AON target sites for AON induction of selective exon skipping in DMD. Because transcription and splicing occur in tandem, AONs must bind to their target sites before splicing factors. Furthermore, co-transcriptional pre-mRNA folding forms transient secondary structures, which redistributes accessible binding sites. In our analysis, to approximate transcription elongation, a “window of analysis” that included the entire targeted exon was shifted one nucleotide at a time along the pre-mRNA. Possible co-transcriptional secondary structures were predicted using the sequence in each step of transcriptional analysis. A nucleotide was considered “engaged” if it formed a complementary base pairing in all predicted secondary structures of a particular step. Correlation of frequency and localisation of engaged nucleotides in AON target sites accounted for the performance (efficacy and efficiency) of 94% of 176 previously reported AONs. Four novel insights are inferred: (1) the lowest frequencies of engaged nucleotides are associated with the most efficient AONs; (2) engaged nucleotides at 3′ or 5′ ends of the target site attenuate AON performance more than at other sites; (3) the performance of longer AONs is less attenuated by engaged nucleotides at 3′ or 5′ ends of the target site compared to shorter AONs; (4) engaged nucleotides at 3′ end of a short target site attenuates AON efficiency more than at 5′ end.en_US
dc.eprint.versionFinal published versionen_US
dc.identifier.citationWee KB, Pramono ZAD, Wang JL, MacDorman KF, Lai PS, et al. (2008) Dynamics of Co-Transcriptional Pre-mRNA Folding Influences the Induction of Dystrophin Exon Skipping by Antisense Oligonucleotides. PLoS ONE 3(3): e1844. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001844en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1805/24972
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherPLOSen_US
dc.relation.isversionof10.1371/journal.pone.0001844en_US
dc.relation.journalPLOS ONEen_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.sourcePublisheren_US
dc.subjectNucleotidesen_US
dc.subjectDystrophinen_US
dc.subjectDNA transcriptionen_US
dc.titleDynamics of Co-Transcriptional Pre-mRNA Folding Influences the Induction of Dystrophin Exon Skipping by Antisense Oligonucleotidesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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