- ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDES WITH IMPROVED PHARMACOKINETIC PROPERTIES
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The invention relates to an antisense or siRNA oligonucleotide or conjugate with improved pharmacokinetic properties, methods of producing the same as well as the use of such compounds and conjugates, e.g. as pharmaceutical composition, a pharmaceutical kit, a medicament or a tool in biomedical research. The conjugates of the invention have the formula I being P - (L - S - S - Y - X)n, wherein P represents a natural, artificial and/or modified oligonucleotide, L represents a linker group attached to one or more nucleosides at any position within the oligonucleotides sequence; S represents sulfur; X represents a ligand; Y represents a spacer and n is an integer ranging from 1 to the oligonucleotide length of P. The oligonucleotides of the invention have the formula II being P- (L - S - R)n, wherein P represents a natural, artificial and /or modified oligonucleotide, L represents a linker group attached to one or more nucleosides at any position within the oligonucleotides sequence, S represents sulfur, R represents either hydrogen or a thiol protecting group, preferably trityl or tertiary butyl, and n is an integer ranging from 1 to the oligonucleotide length of P. In addition, the pharmaceutical composition or pharmaceutical kit or conjugate can be used for the treatment of a disease or disorder that can be at least in part alleviated by therapy, wherein the disease or disorder is selected from the group consisting of bacterial infections, viral infections, cancer, metabolic diseases and immunological disorders and preferably cancer.
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- Phosphoramidates of 2′-β-d-arabinouridine (AraU) as phosphate prodrugs; design, synthesis, in vitro activity and metabolism
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2′-β-d-Arabinouridine (AraU), the uridine analogue of the anticancer agent AraC, was synthesized and evaluated for antiviral activity and cytotoxicity. In addition, a series of AraU monophosphate prodrugs in the form of triester phosphoramidates (ProTides) were also synthesized and tested against a range of viruses, leukaemia and solid tumour cell lines. Unfortunately, neither the parent compound (AraU) nor any of its ProTides showed antiviral activity, nor potent inhibitory activity against any of the cancer cell lines. Therefore, the metabolism of AraU phosphoramidates to release AraU monophosphate was investigated. The results showed carboxypeptidase Y, hog liver esterase and crude CEM tumor cell extracts to hydrolyse the ester motif of phosphoramidates with subsequent loss of the aryl group, while molecular modelling studies suggested that the AraU l-alanine aminoacyl phosphate derivative might not be a good substrate for the phosphoramidase enzyme Hint-1. These findings are in agreement with the observed disappearance of intact prodrug and concomitant appearance of the corresponding phosphoramidate intermediate derivative in CEM cell extracts without measurable formation of araU monophosphate. These findings may explain the poor antiviral/cytostatic potential of the prodrugs.
- Mehellou, Youcef,Valente, Rocco,Mottram, Huw,Walsby, Elisabeth,Mills, Kenneth I.,Balzarini, Jan,McGuigan, Christopher
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experimental part
p. 2439 - 2446
(2010/06/19)
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- 2′-O-dimethylaminoethoxyuridine and 5-dimethylaminopropargyl deoxyuridine for at base pair recognition in triple helices
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The nucleoside analogues 2′-O-dimethylaminoethoxy uridine and 5-dimethylaminopropargyl deoxyuridine have been synthesised and incorporated into oligonucleotides. Their triplex-stabilising properties have been determined in fluorescence melting experiments
- Brennan, Lavinia,Peng, Guomei,Srinivasan, Natarajan,Fox, Keith R.,Brown, Tom
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p. 1283 - 1286
(2008/09/18)
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