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The invention relates to the fields of screening assays, compounds, and methods for altering gene expression and protein levels. In particular, the invention includes assays to screen for agents capable of modulating gene expression in a UTR-dependent manner and agents capable of modulating gene expression.

This invention relates to the field of biotechnology or genetic engineering. Specifically, this invention relates to the field of gene expression. More specifically, this invention relates to a novel inducible gene expression system and methods of modulating gene expression in a host cell for applications such as gene therapy, large-scale production of proteins and antibodies, cell-based high throughput screetng assays, functional genomics and regulation of traits in transgenic plants and animals.

Antisense compounds, compositions and methods are provided for modulating the expression of polo-like kinase. The compositions comprise antisense compounds, particularly antisense oligonucleotides, targeted to nucleic acids encoding polo-like kinase. Methods of using these compounds for modulation of polo-like kinase expression and for treatment of diseases associated with expression of polo-like kinase are provided.

The present invention relates to releasable fusogenic lipids and nanoparticle compositions containing the same for the delivery of oligonucleotides and methods of modulating gene expression using the same. In particular, this invention relates to releasable fusogenic lipids containing an imine linker and a zwitterionic moiety.

Processes and compositions for liposomal delivery of therapeuticals prepared by contacting an aqueous solution of an active agent with a solution of liposome-forming components containing one or more DILA2 amino acid compounds or lipids in organic solvent to form an impinging stream. A protocol including flow rates, pH, and an incubation period are used to control formation of liposomal components for therapeutic applications. The impinging stream may be collected and incubated to prepare a liposomal formulation which encapsulates the active agent. The composition can be quenched with buffer and filtered by tangential flow and diafiltration and other means for finishing as a pharmaceutical composition. An efficiency for delivering a drug cargo is provided. Compositions can include a liposome containing one or more carrier particles, each carrier particle having an active agent and a peptide, wherein the ratio of the mass of the peptide plus the mass of the liposome to the mass of the active agent is less than about 15.

Provided herein are compositions, compounds, and methods of modulating gene expression. In certain embodiments described herein is a composition, wherein the composition comprises an antagoNAT. In some embodiments, the antagoNAT is an oligonucleotide comprising modified and unmodified sugar subunits, wherein the antagoNAT hybridizes with a natural antisense transcript. Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method for modulating gene expression in a cell comprising contacting the cell with an antagoNAT. In some embodiments, the method includes forming a hybrid comprising the antagoNAT and a natural antisense transcript of the gene, wherein the hybrid sterically blocks the normal function of the natural antisense transcript.

Antisense compounds, compositions and methods are provided for modulating the expression of apolipoprotein B. The compositions comprise antisense compounds, particularly antisense oligonucleotides, targeted to nucleic acids encoding apolipoprotein B. Methods of using these compounds for modulation of apolipoprotein B expression and for treatment of diseases associated with expression of apolipoprotein B are provided.

The invention provides novel TRIM polypeptides, proteins, and nucleic acid molecules. In addition to isolated, full-length TRIM proteins, the invention further provides isolated TRIM fusion proteins, antigenic peptides and anti-TRIM antibodies. The invention also provides TRIM nucleic acid molecules, recombinant expression vectors containing a nucleic acid molecule of the invention, host cells into which the expression vectors have been introduced and non-human transgenic animals in which an TRIM gene has been introduced or disrupted. The present invention also provides methods and compositions for the diagnosis and treatment of viral infection and/or replication, e.g., HIV infection. The invention further provides methods for identifying a compound capable of treating or preventing viral infection and/or replication, e.g., HIV infection and AIDS. In addition, the invention provides a method for treating a subject having a viral infection and/or replication, e.g., HIV infection using the modulators of the invention.

Antisense compounds, compositions and methods are provided for modulating the expression of C-reactive protein. The compositions comprise antisense compounds, particularly antisense oligonucleotides, targeted to nucleic acids encoding C-reactive protein. Methods of using these compounds for modulation of C-reactive protein expression and for treatment of diseases associated with expression of C-reactive protein are provided.

Disclosed herein are antisense compounds and methods for decreasing alpha-synuclein mRNA and protein expression. Also disclosed herein are methods for treating, preventing, and ameliorating neurodegenerative diseases in an individual in need thereof.

There is provided, inter alia, a method of diagnosing MCI in a subject, differentiating MCI from AD in a subject, guiding therapy in a subject suffering from MCI, or assigning a prognostic risk of one or more future clinical outcomes to a subject suffering from MCI, the method comprising:

• • (a) performing assays configured to detect a polypeptide derived from a protein selected from the list consisting of proteins defined by SEQ ID Nos 1-18 as a marker in one or more samples obtained from said subject; and
  • (b) correlating the results of said assay(s) to the presence or absence of MCI and AD in the subject, to a therapeutic regimen to be used in the subject, or to the prognostic risk of one or more clinical outcomes for the subject suffering from MCI.

The invention provides Gemini vitamin D₃ compounds, methods for using the compounds to treat vitamin D3 associated states and pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds.

New antisense oligonucleotide compounds inhibit expression of Akt-1 and also induce cytotoxicity in several cancer cell lines.

The present invention relates to compounds, compositions, and methods for the study, diagnosis, and treatment of traits, diseases and conditions that respond to the modulation of CTGF gene expression and/or activity, and/or modulate a CTGF gene expression pathway. Specifically, the invention relates to double-stranded nucleic acid molecules including small nucleic acid molecules, such as short interfering nucleic acid (siNA), short interfering RNA (siRNA), double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), micro-RNA (miRNA), and short hairpin RNA (shRNA) molecules that are capable of mediating or that mediate RNA interference (RNAi) against CTGF gene expression.

Compounds, compositions and methods are provided for modulating the expression of Aurora B. The compositions comprise oligonucleotides, targeted to nucleic acid encoding Aurora B. Methods of using these compounds for modulation of Aurora B expression and for diagnosis and treatment of diseases and conditions associated with expression of Aurora B are provided. Also provided are methods of using these compounds to modulate the growth of cancer cells, including p53-deficient cancer cells.

Compounds, compositions and methods are provided for modulating the expression of Histone deacetylase 1. The compositions comprise oligonucleotides, targeted to nucleic acid encoding Histone deacetylase 1. Methods of using these compounds for modulation of Histone deacetylase 1 expression and for diagnosis and treatment of diseases and conditions associated with expression of Histone deacetylase 1 are provided.

A method for screening for or diagnosis or prognosis of a neurological disorder in a subject, for determining the stage or severity of such a neurological disorder in a subject, for identifying a subject at risk of developing such a neurological disorder, or for monitoring the effect of therapy administered to a subject having such a neurological disorder, said method comprising: (a) analyzing a test sample of body fluid or tissue from the subject said sample comprising at least one Protein Isoform selected from the Protein Isoform Nos 1-6 listed in Table 1; and (b) comparing the abundance of said Protein Isoform(s) in the test sample with the abundance of said Protein Isoform(s) in a test sample from one or more persons free from neurological disorder, or with a previously determined reference range for that Protein Isoform in subjects free from neurological disorder, wherein a diagnosis of or a positive result in screening for or a prognosis of a more advanced condition of said neurological disorder is indicated by increased abundance of said Protein Isoform(s) in the test sample relative to the abundance of said Protein Isoform(s) in the test sample from one or more persons free from neurological disorder, or with the previously determined reference range for that Protein Isoform in subjects free from neurological disorder.

Compounds, compositions and methods are provided for modulating the expression of CEACAM1. The compositions comprise oligonucleotides, targeted to nucleic acid encoding CEACAM1. Methods of using these compounds for modulation of CEACAM1 expression and for diagnosis and treatment of disease associated with expression of CEACAM1 are provided.

The invention provides methods for modulating a cellular process by contacting a cell in culture with a cell process-modifying molecule attached to a translocating polypeptide. For example, in one embodiment, a cell in culture is transfected with a target gene by contacting the cell in culture with a polynucleotide (that contains the target gene) attached to a translocating polypeptide. In another embodiment, expression of a target gene product in a cell in culture that contains a target gene under control of one or more regulatory elements is modulated by contacting the cell in culture with one or more regulatory agents attached to a translocating polypeptide. The one or more regulatory agents are translocated into the cell in culture and interact therein with the one or more regulatory elements to modulate expression of the target gene product by the cell.

Compositions and methods for reducing cardiovascular risk utilizing substituted 1,3-cyclopentadione compounds are described.

Disclosed herein are optimized guide RNAs (gRNAs) and methods of designing and using said optimized gRNAs that have increased target binding specificity and reduced off-target binding.

The present disclosure relates to triazolopyridazine protein kinase modulators of Formula (I), methods of using these compounds to treat diseases mediated by kinase activity.

PCT No. PCT/US94/07770 Sec. 371 Date Jan. 11, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Jan. 11, 1996 PCT Filed Jul. 8, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO95/02069 PCT Pub. Date Jan. 19, 1995Compositions and methods are provided for the treatment and diagnosis of diseases associated with protein kinase C. Oligonucleotides are provided which are specifically hybridizable with a PKC gene or mRNA. Oligonucleotides specifically hybridizable with a particular PKC isozyme, set of isozymes or mRNA transcript are provided. Methods of treating conditions amenable to therapeutic intervention by modulating protein kinase C expression with an oligonucleotide specifically hybridizable with a PKC gene or mRNA are disclosed. Compositions and methods are provided for the treatment, detection and diagnosis of diseases associated with protein kinase C alpha and specific transcripts thereof. New nucleic acid sequences are provided which encode 3' untranslated regions of human protein kinase C alpha polynucleotide probes for PKC alpha are also disclosed.

Described herein are novel polynucleotides associated with disease. The polynucleotides are miRNAs, miRNA precursors, and associated nucleic acids. Methods and compositions are described that can be used for diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of disease. Also described herein are methods that can be used to identify modulators of the disease-associated polynucleotides.

The invention provides 20-alkyl Gemini vitamin D₃ compounds, methods for using the compounds to treat vitamin D₃ associated states and pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds.

Disclosed herein are compounds, compositions and methods for modulating the expression of hepcidin in a cell, tissue or animal or preventing, ameliorating or treating anemia. Also provided are methods for prevention, amelioration or treatment of anemia, and for increasing red blood cell count in an animal. Also provided are methods for the prevention, amelioration and/or treatment of low serum iron levels, low red blood cell count and other clinical endpoints of anemia in an animal. These methods may be achieved by administration of compounds or compositions including antisense compounds targeted to a nucleic acid that expresses hepcidin polypeptide combined with an erythropoiesis stimulating agent.

Methods of extracting from a part of a variety of the species Aristolochia Longa pomer a biologically active extract are disclosed. Methods of reducing cell growth in a subject and inducing apoptosis in a cell are also disclosed.

The present invention is directed to the use of microRNA-185 (miR-185) as a tumor suppressor. Embodiments of the invention are directed to the use of miR-185 to modulate the expression of tumor-causing genes and to treat subjects.

Antisense compounds, compositions and methods are provided for modulating the expression of hydroxysteroid 11-beta dehydrogenase 1. The compositions comprise antisense compounds, particularly antisense oligonucleotides, targeted to nucleic acids encoding hydroxysteroid 11-beta dehydrogenase 1. Methods of using these compounds for modulation of hydroxysteroid 11-beta dehydrogenase 1 expression and for treatment of diseases associated with expression of hydroxysteroid 11-beta dehydrogenase 1 are provided.

Compounds, compositions and methods are provided for modulating the expression of tyrosinase. The compositions comprise oligonucleotides, targeted to nucleic acid encoding tyrosinase. Methods of using these compounds for modulation of tyrosinase expression and for diagnosis and treatment of disease associated with expression of tyrosinase are provided