528 results about "RNA - Ribonucleic acid" patented technology

A method for preserving and processing fetal nucleic acids located within maternal plasma is disclosed, wherein a sample of maternal blood containing fetal nucleic acids is treated to reduce both cell lysis of the maternal blood cells and deoxyribonuclease (DNase) and ribonuclease (RNase) activity within the fetal nucleic acids. The treatment of the sample aids in increasing the amount of fetal nucleic acids that can be identified and tested while maintaining the structure and integrity of the fetal nucleic acids.

The invention relates to a double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) for inhibiting the expression of the Eg5 gene (Eg5 gene), comprising an antisense strand having a nucleotide sequence which is less that 30 nucleotides in length, generally 19-25 nucleotides in length, and which is substantially complementary to at least a part of the Eg5 gene. The invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the dsRNA together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier; methods for treating diseases caused by Eg5 expression and the expression of the Eg5 gene using the pharmaceutical composition; and methods for inhibiting the expression of the Eg5 gene in a cell.

Oligomeric compounds including oligoribonucleotides and oligoribonucleosides are provided that have subsequences of 2′-pentoribofuranosyl nucleosides that activate dsRNase. The oligoribonucleotides and oligoribonucleosides can include substituent groups for increasing binding affinity to complementary nucleic acid strand as well as substituent groups for increasing nuclease resistance. The oligomeric compounds are useful for diagnostics and other research purposes, for modulating the expression of a protein in organisms, and for the diagnosis, detection and treatment of other conditions susceptible to oligonucleotide therapeutics. Also included in the invention are mammalian ribonucleases, i.e., enzymes that degrade RNA, and substrates for such ribonucleases. Such a ribonuclease is referred to herein as a dsRNase, wherein “ds” indicates the RNase's specificity for certain double-stranded RNA substrates. The artificial substrates for the dsRNases described herein are useful in preparing affinity matrices for purifying mammalian ribonuclease as well as non-degradative RNA-binding proteins.

Oligomeric compounds including oligoribonucleotides and oligoribonucleosides are provided that have subsequences of 2′-pentoribofuranosyl nucleosides that activate dsRNase. The oligoribonucleotides and oligoribonucleosides can include substituent groups for increasing binding affinity to complementary nucleic acid strand as well as substituent groups for increasing nuclease resistance. The oligomeric compounds are useful for diagnostics and other research purposes, for modulating the expression of a protein in organisms, and for the diagnosis, detection and treatment of other conditions susceptible to oligonucleotide therapeutics. Also included in the invention are mammalian ribonucleases, i.e., enzymes that degrade RNA, and substrates for such ribonucleases. Such a ribonuclease is referred to herein as a dsRNase, wherein “ds” indicates the RNase's specificity for certain double-stranded RNA substrates. The artificial substrates for the dsRNases described herein are useful in preparing affinity matrices for purifying mammalian ribonuclease as well as non-degradative RNA-binding proteins.

The invention relates to adaptors for sequencing nucleic acids. The adaptors may be used to generate single stranded constructs of nucleic acid for sequencing purposes. Such constructs may contain both strands from a double stranded deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or ribonucleic acid (RNA) template. The invention also relates to the constructs generated using the adaptors, methods of making the adaptors and constructs, as well as methods of sequencing double stranded nucleic acids.

Methods and compositions are provided for modulating, e.g., reducing, coding sequence expression in mammals. In the subject methods, an effective amount of an RNAi agent, e.g., an interfering ribonucleic acid (such as an siRNA or shRNA) or a transcription template thereof, e.g., a DNA encoding an shRNA, is administered to a non-embryonic mammal, e.g., via a hydrodynamic administration protocol. Also provided are RNAi agent pharmaceutical preparations for use in the subject methods. The subject methods and compositions find use in a variety of different applications, including academic and therapeutic applications.

Compositions incorporating small interfering ribonucleic acid (siRNA) and certain lipid-conjugated polyamide compound-based delivery vehicles that are particularly useful in the delivery siRNA and other polynucleotides to cells. Also, methods of making and using the compositions.

This invention relates to the use of tumor-derived or associated extracellular ribonucleic acid (RNA) found circulating in the plasma or serum fraction of blood for the detection, monitoring, or evaluation of cancer or premalignant conditions. Extracellular RNA may circulate as non-bound RNA, protein-bound RNA, lipid-RNA complexes, lipoprotein (proteolipid)-RNA complexes, protein-RNA complexes including within or in association with ribonucleoprotein complexes, nucleosomes, or within apoptotic bodies. Any intracellular RNA found in plasma or serum can additionally be detected by this invention. Specifically, this invention enables the extraction of circulating RNA from plasma or serum and utilizes nucleic acid amplification assays for the identification, detection, inference, monitoring, or evaluation of any neoplasm, benign, premalignant, or malignant, in humans or other animals, which might be associated with that RNA. Further, this invention allows the qualitative or quantitative detection of tumor-derived or associated extracellular RNA circulating in the plasma or serum of humans or animals with or without any prior knowledge of the presence of cancer or premalignant tissue.

The invention discloses micro ribonucleic acids (microRNA, miRNA) carried by cell microparticles (Microparticle, MP), a method for preparing the same, and application thereof in the technical field of biotechnological pharmacy. The invention provides a combination of the micro ribonucleic acids for evaluating the physiological and / or pathological states of a participant, and the combination contains all the micro ribonucleic acids which exist stably in serum / plasma particles of the participant and are detectable. At the same time, the invention provides an experimental method for preparing the cell microparticles containing specific micro ribonucleic acids and using the cell microparticles to perform gene-level regulation and control as well as modification on other cells and tissues. The combination and the method can be used for detecting and treating various diseases, including the aspects of the diagnosis and the differential diagnosis of various tumors, various acute and chronic infectious diseases and other acute and chronic diseases, the prediction and the curative effect evaluation of the occurrences of disease complications and the recurrences of malignant diseases, as well as the active ingredient screening, the efficacy evaluation and the judicial authentication of drugs, the detection of prohibited drugs and the like; besides, the combination and the method have the advantages of wide detection pedigree, high sensitivity, low detection cost, convenient available material, easy storage of samples and the like.

Combinatorially-synthesized deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) oligonucleotides attached to encoded beads that are hybridized to amplified and labeled genomic DNA or ribonucleic acid (RNA) are analyzed using a flow imaging system. Oligonucleotides and corresponding reporters are bound to the surfaces of a plurality of small beads such that different beads bear different oligo sequences. Each bead bears a unique optical signature comprising a predefined number of unique reporters, where each reporter comprises a predefined combination of different fluorochromes. The composite spectral signature in turn identifies the unique nucleotide sequence of its attached oligo chains. This optical signature is rapidly decoded using an imaging system to discriminate the different reporters attached to each bead in a flow in regard to color and spatial position on the bead.

The disclosure relates to cancer ribonucleic acid (RNA) vaccines, as well as methods of using the vaccines and compositions comprising the vaccines.

The invention relates to a double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) for inhibiting the expression of a Hepatitis B Virus gene. The invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the dsRNA or nucleic acid molecules or vectors encoding the same together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier; methods for treating diseases caused by Hepatitis B Virus infection using said pharmaceutical composition; and methods for inhibiting the expression of a Hepatitis B Virus gene in a cell.

invention discloses a kit for a serum micro-ribonucleic acid and the application in the early diagnosing of hepatitis B thereof which belong to the technical field of biotechnological pharmaceutics. The invention provides the combination of the micro-ribonucleic acid used for estimating the physiological and / or pathological states of a normal person, a HBVer and a patient with hepatitis B; the combination comprises all the micro-ribonucleic acids which have differential expression in the serum / plasm of the normal person, the HBVer and the patient with hepatitis B and prepares a diagnosing kit which can be used for the early diagnosing of hepatitis B. The combination and the method can be used for the early detection and nondirective therapy of hepatitis B; besides, the combination and the method have the advantages of high specificity, high efficiency, high sensitivity, low detection cost, convenient material obtaining, and the like. Besides, the samples are easily stored.

In one aspect of the invention, a method for regulating the expression of a transcript comprises using at least one interfering RNA molecule that binds to an area of transcript containing a region that corresponds to at least one sequence having SEQ ID NO: 1, the interfering RNA molecule regulating the expression of the transcript through post-transcriptional silencing. In another aspect, a method for regulating the expression of a transcript comprises at least one of the provided sequences having SEQ ID NO: 1 being used to design an interfering RNA molecule that contains a region that corresponds to the reverse complement of one or more sequences having SEQ ID NO: 1, the interfering molecule regulating, through post-transcriptional silencing, transcripts that contain the sequence having SEQ ID NO: 1.

What is disclosed is a pharmaceutical composition for administration of a double stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) molecule to an animal, comprising the dsRNA molecule and a peptide, wherein the dsRNA molecule comprises about 10 to about 40 base pairs, wherein the peptide comprises about 5 to about 40 amino acids and consists of all or part of the amino acid sequence KGSKKAVTKAQKKDGKKRKRSRKESYSVYVYKVLKQ (SEQ ID NO: 59), and wherein the peptide binds to the dsRNA molecule.

The present invention provides a membrane-permeable complex for facilitating the delivery of a double-stranded ribonucleic acid molecule into a cell. Specifically, the invention provides a membrane-permeable complex that comprises a double-stranded ribonucleic acid molecule, such as a small interfering RNA, a cell-penetrating peptide, and a covalent bond linking the double-stranded ribonucleic acid to the cell-penetrating peptide. Also provided are methods of using the membrane-permeable complex of the present invention to deliver the double-stranded ribonucleic acid molecule to a cell or to inhibit expression of a gene product by a cell.

The present invention relates to an immobilized poly(N)polymerase (PNP), methods of producing said PNP and uses thereof. Further disclosed is an enzyme reactor and kit comprising the PNP for producing polynucleotidylated ribonucleic acid poly(N)RNA)molecules which are useful in gene therapy, immunotherapy, protein replacement therapy and / or vaccination.

The invention provides a DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) sequence used for circular RNA (ribonucleic acid) expression and a vector containing the DNA sequence used for circular RNA expression. The vector is inserted in a eukaryotic expression vector, a lentiviral vector, an adenovirus vector or a retroviral vector to form a series of special expression vectors for circRNA. The DNA sequence and the corresponding expression vector have the best effects, are simple and convenient to operate and are stable in results and efficient in expression (the circRNA expression level is increased by more than a hundredfold). The sequence and the corresponding vector can be widely applied to expression of various circRNA, provide a powerful research tool for the functions and mechanisms of circRNA and provide theoretical support for research and development of further determination of circRNA molecules as novel markers and disease treatment targets.

The present invention relates to a method for screening and identifying test compounds that bind to a preselected target ribonucleic acid ("RNA"). Direct, non-competitive binding assays are advantageously used to screen libraries of compounds for those that selectively bind to a preselected target RNA. Binding of target RNA molecules to a particular test compound is detected using any physical method that measures the altered physical property of the target RNA bound to a test compound. The structure of the test compound attached to the labeled RNA is also determined. The methods used will depend, in part, on the nature of the library screened. The methods of the present invention provide a simple, sensitive assay for high-throughput screening of libraries of compounds to identify pharmaceutical leads.

The present invention relates to chimeric molecules comprising an oligonucleotide complementary to a region of the ribonucleotide component of telomerase attached to an activator of RNase L ("activator-antisense complex") which specifically cleaves the ribonucleotide portion of a telomerase enzyme. The present invention relates to methods of inhibiting telomerase enzymatic activity with activator-antisense complexes targeted to the RNA component of telomerase. The present invention further relates to methods of treating malignant neoplastic disease, wherein the malignant cells contain a telomerase activity that is necessary for the growth of the malignant cells.

This invention relates to the use of tumor-derived or associated extracellular ribonucleic acid (RNA) found circulating in the plasma or serum fraction of blood for the detection, monitoring, or evaluation of cancer or premalignant conditions. Extracellular RNA may circulate as non-bound RNA, protein-bound RNA, lipid-RNA complexes, lipoprotein (proteolipid)-RNA complexes, protein-RNA complexes including within or in association with ribonucleoprotein complexes, nucleosomes, or within apoptotic bodies. Any intracellular RNA found in plasma or serum can additionally be detected by this invention. Specifically, this invention enables the extraction of circulating RNA from plasma or serum and utilizes nucleic acid amplification assays for the identification, detection, inference, monitoring, or evaluation of any neoplasm, benign, premalignant, or malignant, in humans or other animals, which might be associated with that RNA. Further, this invention allows the qualitative or quantitative detection of tumor-derived or associated extracellular RNA circulating in the plasma or serum of humans or animals with or without any prior knowledge of the presence of cancer or premalignant tissue.

A method of enhancing the isolation of ribonucleic acids from samples of biological or cellular material is disclosed which uses a solution of an Agent during binding of nucleic acids onto a solid phase binding material which, after elution, enhances the recovery of RNA. Washing the solid phase and eluting the nucleic acid produces RNA in enhanced yield and / or purity. The use of the new method allows RNA to be captured and released in a form suitable for downstream processing in under five minutes. Preferred Agents according to the invention comprise monomeric, oligomeric, dendrimeric and polymeric organic compounds having multiple positive charges.

The disclosure features methods of reducing or inhibiting an anti-drug antibody response in a subject, as well as methods of reducing or inhibiting unwanted immune cell activation in a subject to be treated with a messenger RNA (mRNA), comprising administering to the subject a mRNA, e.g., a chemically modified messenger RNA (mmRNA), encoding a polypeptide of interest, wherein the mRNA comprises at least one microRNA (miR) binding site for a miR expressed in immune cells, such as miR-126 binding site and / or miR-142 binding site, such that an anti-drug antibody response to the polypeptide or interest, or unwanted immune cell activation (e.g., B cell activation, cytokine secretion), is reduced or inhibited in the subject. The disclosure further provides therapeutic treatment regimens designed to reduce or inhibit AD A or unwanted immune cell activation (e.g., B cell activation, cytokine secretion) in a subject being treated with mRNA-based therapeutics.

The invention discloses a CRISPR-Cas based technology for normal-temperature / isothermal rapid detection of ribonucleic acid and a detection method. The invention aims to perform in-vitro ribonucleic acid amplification on multiple disclosed gentically engineered enzymes and chemical components and to realize amplification and detection of specific ribonucleic acid (RNA) or desoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) quickly in one step or two steps in normal-temperature / isothermal condition so that the detection of each nucleic acid is faster and more convenient. The method comprises the following steps: (1)performing nucleic acid extraction to obtain the RNA, single-stranded DNA or double-stranded DNA of a to-be-detected sample; (2) conducting a reaction with to-be-detected nucleic acid by using the combined enzyme of reverse transcriptase, transcriptase, ribonuclease H and CRISPR-associated protein 13 as well as a nucleic acid fluorescent probe in an isothermal condition, wherein if the to-be-detected nucleic acid is DNA, a pre-denaturation step is added before the reaction; (3) detecting the fluorescence signal to judge whether target nucleic acid exists in the to-be-detected sample.

The present disclosure provides meroduplex ribonucleic acid molecules (mdRNA) capable of decreasing or silencing ERBB gene expression. An mdRNA of this disclosure comprises at least three strands that combine to form at least two non-overlapping double-stranded regions separated by a nick or gap wherein one strand is complementary to an ERBB mRNA. In addition, the meroduplex may have at least one uridine substituted with a 5-methyluridine, a nucleoside replaced with a locked nucleic acid, or optionally other modifications, and any combination thereof. Also provided are methods of decreasing expression of an ERBB gene in a cell or in a subject to treat an ERBB-related disease.

The invention features methods of diagnosing cancer in a mammal (e.g., a human) by detecting a biomarker selected from a satellite II ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecule, a cancer-associated polycomb group (CAP) body, a cancer-associated satellite transcript (CAST) body, and UbH2A. Also featured is a method for identifying an agent for treating cancer in a mammal by contacting a cancer cell having a biomarker selected from a CAP body, a CAST body, and a satellite II RNA molecule with a test agent and determining whether the test agent reduces the level of the biomarker in the cancer cell. Other inventions featured are a method for determining whether a chemotherapeutic agent increases epigenetic imbalance of a cell and a method for detecting epigenetic imbalance by determining a copy number of a satellite II DNA locus at chromosome 1q12 in a cell.

The cloning and heterologous expression of human T2 RNase6PL are disclosed. Further disclosed are methods for preventing, inhibiting and / or reversing cell motility, actin filament assembly or disassembly, proliferation, colonization, differentiation, accumulation and / or development of abnormal cells in a subject is disclosed. The methods are effected by administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a RNase6PL ribonuclease or close homologues thereof.

Human extracellular ribonucleases (RNases) are widely distributed in various organs and body fluids and together with other members of the mammalian RNase A superfamily. In addition to their RNase activity, several RNases have been shown to have special biological actions, i.e., antitumor, antiviral and angiogenic properties. However, the molecular mechanisms of such activities are unclear. Using protein microarrays amplified rolling circle amplification (RCA), we investigated the effects of EDN (Rnase 2), ECP (Rnase 3) and RNase 1 on leukocytes cytokine production. We measured the levels of 78 different cytokines and growth factors in culture supernatants to determine the cytokine profiles of cells treated with different combinations of RNases and RNase inhibitors. Members of human ribonuclease family (such as Rnase 1, hEDN (Rnase 2) and Rnase 3) induced expression of certain sets of cytokines in human leukocytes, including ENA-78, EOT2, BLC, GDNF, 1309, IFN-alpha, IFN-gamma, IL-10, IL-12P40, IL-12p70, IL-13, IL-16, IL-18, IL-1beta, IL-1ra, IL-2Sra, IL-3, IL-6, IL-6sR, IL-7, IL-8, IP-10, MCP-1, MCP-2, MCP-3, MCSF, MIG, MDC, MIP-1alpha, MIP-1beta, MPIF-1, NAP-2, RANTES, sCD23, OSM, TARC, TNF-alpha, TNF-R1 and uPAR. Thus members of the Rnase superfamily are therapeutic targets for treatment of inflammatory diseases and clinical conditions. Inhibition or augmentation of Rnase expression is used to modulate the immune system and is beneficial for host defense against various diseases and is exploited as an adjuvant. The expression of Rnases is a diagnostic marker for inflammation related conditions and is used to determine various disease stages. In addition, expression of cytokines, chemokines, growth factors is used to monitor efficacy of Rnase-base therapies.