CN108239644B - Small interfering nucleic acid, pharmaceutical composition and application thereof - Google Patents

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CN108239644B
CN108239644B CN201611209741.6A CN201611209741A CN108239644B CN 108239644 B CN108239644 B CN 108239644B CN 201611209741 A CN201611209741 A CN 201611209741A CN 108239644 B CN108239644 B CN 108239644B
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The present disclosure relates to a small interfering RNA and a pharmaceutical composition and uses thereof, the siRNA contains a complementary sense strand and antisense strand, the sense strand contains a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID NO.24, SEQ ID NO.26, SEQ ID NO.28 or SEQ ID NO.30, and the antisense strand contains a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID NO.25, SEQ ID NO.27, SEQ ID NO.29 or SEQ ID NO. 31; and the siRNA has or does not have a modification group on the phosphate backbone and/or nucleotide pentose in the phosphate-sugar backbone. The present disclosure provides novel and highly efficient siRNA and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, which can effectively prevent and/or treat dyslipidemia.

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Small interfering nucleic acid, pharmaceutical composition and application thereof
Technical Field
The disclosure relates to the technical field of biomedicine, in particular to small interfering RNA (siRNA), a pharmaceutical composition and application thereof.
Background
Dyslipidemia, also known as hyperlipidemia, is a systemic disease in which fat metabolism or movement is abnormal, causing plasma lipids to rise above normal. The clinical manifestations of hyperlipidemia mainly include two major aspects: (1) yellow tumors caused by deposition of lipids in the dermis; (2) atherosclerosis caused by deposition of lipid in vascular endothelium, coronary heart disease and peripheral vascular disease. Approximately 35% of the two types of diabetes patients worldwide are reported to also suffer from dyslipidemia; in addition, 1800 ten thousand people suffer from hypertriglyceridemia in hyperlipidemia. The prevalence rate of dyslipidemia of people of 18 years old and older in China is about 18.6%, and even nearly 10% of children have blood lipid increase and gradually increase. Dyslipidemia seriously threatens the health of patients.
The existing medicines for treating dyslipidemia mainly comprise statins, cholesterol absorption inhibitors, resins, Protocol, fibrates, nicotinic acid and derivatives thereof. After the use of these drugs, there are some contraindications and side effects, for example, 31 patients who took the statin lipid-lowering agent bestatin died of serious myopathy in the year 2001. Therefore, there is a great need to develop new drugs and new therapies against dyslipidemia.
The existing research shows that apolipoprotein C3(APOC3) plays an important role in lipid metabolism, the expression level of APOC3 in the blood circulation of a person carrying the APOC3 mutant gene is reduced by 46%, the triglyceride level in the blood is reduced by 39% compared with that of the ordinary person, and meanwhile, the lower blood lipid level can reduce the risk of heart disease of a person carrying the APOC3 mutant gene by 35.1% compared with a person not carrying the APOC3 mutant gene. Therefore, the inhibition of the activity of the APOC3 can effectively prevent and/or treat dyslipidemia, and the design of a proper Small interfering RNA (siRNA) sequence can specifically reduce the expression of the APOC 3. The siRNA is loaded into a silencing complex (RISC) to complementarily pair with a target nucleic acid of mRNA of a target gene, thereby degrading the mRNA of the target gene and inhibiting the expression of the target gene. However, the target nucleic acid has species difference, which increases the difficulty of developing siRNA drug aiming at the target nucleic acid, and simultaneously, the stability of siRNA is poor, and the defect that the systemic administration is easy to be degraded by nuclease exists. There is a necessity for clinical research and commercial feasibility to develop sirnas and their drugs effective in preventing and/or treating dyslipidemia.
Disclosure of Invention
The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a highly efficient siRNA sequence against APOC3 gene and a pharmaceutical composition thereof, which is effective in preventing and/or treating dyslipidemia.
In order to achieve the above object, the present disclosure provides an siRNA comprising a sense strand and an antisense strand which are complementary, the sense strand comprising a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID No.24, and the antisense strand comprising a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID No. 25; or the sense strand contains a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID NO.26, and the antisense strand contains a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID NO. 27; or the sense strand contains a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID NO.28, and the antisense strand contains a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID NO. 29; or the sense strand contains a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID NO.30, and the antisense strand contains a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID NO. 31; wherein the content of the first and second substances,
sense strand 5'-UCAGUUCCCUGAAAGACUA-3' (SEQ ID NO.24),
antisense strand 5'-UAGUCUUUCAGGGAACUGA-3' (SEQ ID NO. 25);
sense strand 5'-CCAAUAAAGCUGGACAAGA-3' (SEQ ID NO.26),
antisense strand 5'-UCUUGUCCAGCUUUAUUGG-3' (SEQ ID NO. 27);
sense strand 5'-CAAUAAAGCUGGACAAGAA-3' (SEQ ID NO.28),
antisense strand 5'-UUCUUGUCCAGCUUUAUUG-3' (SEQ ID NO. 29);
sense strand 5'-GCUGGACAAGAAGCUGCUA-3' (SEQ ID NO.30),
antisense strand 5'-UAGCAGCUUCUUGUCCAGC-3' (SEQ ID NO. 31).
In a second aspect, the present disclosure provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising the siRNA as described above and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier; the weight ratio of the siRNA to the pharmaceutically acceptable carrier is 1 (1-500), preferably 1 (1-50).
In a third aspect, the present disclosure provides a kit comprising an siRNA according to the first aspect and/or a pharmaceutical composition according to the second aspect.
In a fourth aspect, the present disclosure provides the use of the siRNA of the first aspect and/or the pharmaceutical composition of the second aspect in the preparation of a medicament for the prevention and/or treatment of dyslipidemia.
In a fifth aspect, the present disclosure provides a method of preventing and/or treating dyslipidemia, the method comprising administering to a patient in need thereof an siRNA according to the first aspect and/or a pharmaceutical composition according to the second aspect.
In a sixth aspect, the present disclosure provides a method of inhibiting expression of APOC3 gene in a hepatocyte, the method comprising introducing into the hepatocyte the siRNA of the first aspect and/or the pharmaceutical composition of the second aspect.
According to the technical scheme, the siRNA and the pharmaceutical composition containing the siRNA are used for effectively preventing and/or treating dyslipidemia, and the siRNA or the pharmaceutical composition containing the siRNA inhibits the expression of APOC3 gene to cause the reduction of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglyceride in blood, so that dyslipidemia is effectively prevented and/or treated. Particularly, the specific pharmaceutical composition formed by the pharmaceutically acceptable carrier formed by organic amine, helper lipid and pegylated lipid and the siRNA of the present disclosure remarkably inhibits the content of low density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglyceride in the serum of the human APOC3 transgenic mouse.
Additional features and advantages of the disclosure will be set forth in the detailed description which follows.
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FIG. 1 is an electrophoresis diagram of siRNA stability assay in human plasma in vitro.
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The following detailed description of specific embodiments of the present disclosure is provided in connection with the accompanying drawings. It should be understood that the detailed description and specific examples, while indicating the present disclosure, are given by way of illustration and explanation only, not limitation.
In the present disclosure, APOC3 refers to a gene whose mRNA sequence is shown by Genbank accession No. NM — 000040.1.
In a first aspect, the present disclosure provides an siRNA comprising a sense strand and an antisense strand which are complementary, wherein the sense strand comprises a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID No.24, and the antisense strand comprises a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID No. 25; or the sense strand contains a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID NO.26, and the antisense strand contains a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID NO. 27; or the sense strand contains a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID NO.28, and the antisense strand contains a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID NO. 29; or the sense strand contains a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID NO.30, and the antisense strand contains a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID NO. 31; wherein the content of the first and second substances,
sense strand 5'-UCAGUUCCCUGAAAGACUA-3' (SEQ ID NO.24),
antisense strand 5'-UAGUCUUUCAGGGAACUGA-3' (SEQ ID NO. 25);
sense strand 5'-CCAAUAAAGCUGGACAAGA-3' (SEQ ID NO.26),
antisense strand 5'-UCUUGUCCAGCUUUAUUGG-3' (SEQ ID NO. 27);
sense strand 5'-CAAUAAAGCUGGACAAGAA-3' (SEQ ID NO.28),
antisense strand 5'-UUCUUGUCCAGCUUUAUUG-3' (SEQ ID NO. 29);
sense strand 5'-GCUGGACAAGAAGCUGCUA-3' (SEQ ID NO.30),
antisense strand 5'-UAGCAGCUUCUUGUCCAGC-3' (SEQ ID NO. 31).
In the present disclosure, the target nucleic acid sequence of siRNA with sense strand shown as SEQ ID NO.24 and antisense strand shown as SEQ ID NO.25 is shown as SEQ ID NO.1(UCAGUUCCCUGAAAGACUA), wherein the target nucleic acid of siRNA is the 246-264 th position in mRNA of APOC3, and can be hybridized with the antisense strand shown as SEQ ID NO. 25. The target nucleic acid sequence of the siRNA with the sense strand shown as SEQ ID NO.26 and the antisense strand shown as SEQ ID NO.27 is shown as SEQ ID NO.2(CCAAUAAAGCUGGACAAGA), wherein the target nucleic acid of the siRNA is the 505-523 th site in the mRNA of APOC3 and can be hybridized with the antisense strand shown as SEQ ID NO. 27. The target nucleic acid sequence of the siRNA with the sense strand shown as SEQ ID NO.28 and the antisense strand shown as SEQ ID NO.29 is shown as SEQ ID NO.3(CAAUAAAGCUGGACAAGAA), wherein the target nucleic acid of the siRNA is the fragment which is at the 506 nd and 524 nd positions in the mRNA of APOC3 and can be hybridized with the antisense strand shown as SEQ ID NO. 29. The target nucleic acid sequence of the siRNA with the sense strand shown as SEQ ID NO.30 and the antisense strand shown as SEQ ID NO.31 is shown as SEQ ID NO.4(GCUGGACAAGAAGCUGCUA), wherein the target nucleic acid of the siRNA is the 513-531 th site in the mRNA of APOC3 and can be hybridized with the antisense strand shown as SEQ ID NO. 31.
According to the first aspect of the present disclosure, preferably, the 3 'end of at least one single strand of the mutually complementary sense and antisense strands is further linked with 1 to 3 additional nucleotides, thereby forming at least one 3' overhang consisting of 1 to 3 nucleotides upon complementary pairing of the sense and antisense strands; preferably, the 3' overhang is a contiguous sequence of 2 deoxythymine nucleotides (i.e., dTdT) or uracil nucleotides (i.e., UU); more preferably, both the sense and antisense strands contain 3' overhangs.
In order to further improve the stability of siRNA in blood and avoid nuclease degradation in vivo, according to one embodiment of the present disclosure, at least one nucleotide in at least one single strand of the complementary sense strand and antisense strand is a nucleotide containing a modification group, which can be any of various existing modification groups that function to improve the stability of siRNA. Such modifications can be found in Watts, J.K., G.F.Delevay, and M.J.Damha, chemical modified siRNA: tools and applications.drug discovery, 2008.13(19-20): p.842-55.
In some embodiments of the siRNA of the present disclosure, at least a portion of the phosphate groups in the phosphate-sugar backbone of at least one of the sense strand and the antisense strand that are complementary to each other are phosphate groups having a modifying group, and at least a portion of the ribogroups in the phosphate-sugar backbone of at least one of the sense strand and the antisense strand that are complementary to each other are ribogroups having a modifying group. Preferably, the ribosyl group having a modifying group is a 2 '-methoxyribosyl group in which the 2' -hydroxyl group is substituted with a methoxy group or a 2 '-fluororibosyl group in which the 2' -hydroxyl group is substituted with a fluorine group, and the phosphate group having a modifying group is a phosphorothioate group in which one oxygen atom in a phosphodiester bond in the phosphate group is substituted with a sulfur atom. The structure of the thiophosphate group is shown as the formula (1):
Figure BDA0001190708770000041
according to the first aspect of the present disclosure, the inventors of the present disclosure surprisingly found that the phosphate-sugar backbone of the siRNA has better use effects when having the following modification groups, respectively:
the glycosyl at the 1 st, 2 nd, 5 th, 6 th, 8 th, 9 th, 10 th, 17 th and 18 th positions of the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO.24 of the sense strand of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, the glycosyl at the 2 nd position of the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO.25 of the antisense strand of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, and the glycosyl at the 4 th, 5 th, 7 th, 8 th, 16 th and 17 th positions is 2 ' -fluororibosyl;
or the glycosyl at the 1 st, 2 nd, 6 th, 8 th, 10 th, 17 th and 18 th positions of the nucleotide sequence of the sense strand SEQ ID NO.24 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, the glycosyl at the 2 nd position of the nucleotide sequence of the antisense strand SEQ ID NO.25 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, and the glycosyl at the 9 th and 17 th positions is 2 ' -fluororibosyl;
or the glycosyl at the 1 st, 2 nd, 5 th, 7 th, 9 th, 10 th, 17 th and 18 th positions of the nucleotide sequence of the sense strand SEQ ID NO.24 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, the glycosyl at the 2 nd position of the nucleotide sequence of the antisense strand SEQ ID NO.25 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, and the glycosyl at the 4 th, 6 th, 9 th and 17 th positions is 2 ' -fluororibosyl;
or the glycosyl groups at the 1 st, 2 nd, 5 th, 10 th, 11 th and 15 th positions of the nucleotide sequence of the sense strand SEQ ID NO.26 of the siRNA are 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, the glycosyl group at the 2 nd position of the nucleotide sequence of the antisense strand SEQ ID NO.27 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, and the glycosyl groups at the 4 th, 6 th, 8 th, 12 th, 13 th, 16 th and 17 th positions are 2 ' -fluororibosyl;
or the glycosyl groups at the 1 st, 2 nd, 5 th, 10 th, 11 th and 15 th positions of the nucleotide sequence of the sense strand SEQ ID NO.26 of the siRNA are 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, the glycosyl group at the 2 nd position of the nucleotide sequence of the antisense strand SEQ ID NO.27 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, and the glycosyl groups at the 4 th, 8 th, 14 th and 17 th positions are 2 ' -fluororibosyl;
or the glycosyl groups at the 1 st, 2 nd, 5 th, 10 th, 11 th and 15 th positions of the nucleotide sequence of the sense strand SEQ ID NO.26 of the siRNA are 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, the glycosyl group at the 2 nd position of the nucleotide sequence of the antisense strand SEQ ID NO.27 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, and the glycosyl groups at the 4 th, 7 th, 8 th, 13 th and 17 th positions are 2 ' -fluororibosyl;
or the glycosyl groups at the 1 st, 4 th, 9 th, 10 th and 14 th positions of the nucleotide sequence of the sense strand SEQ ID NO.28 of the siRNA are 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, the glycosyl group at the 2 nd position of the nucleotide sequence of the antisense strand SEQ ID NO.29 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, and the glycosyl groups at the 3 rd, 5 th, 7 th, 9 th, 12 th, 13 th, 15 th, 17 th and 18 th positions are 2 ' -fluororibosyl;
or the sugar groups at the 1 st, 4 th, 9 th, 10 th and 14 th positions of the nucleotide sequence of the sense strand SEQ ID NO.28 of the siRNA are 2 ' -methoxy ribosyl, the sugar group at the 2 nd position of the nucleotide sequence of the antisense strand SEQ ID NO.29 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxy ribosyl, and the sugar groups at the 5 th, 9 th, 15 th and 18 th positions are 2 ' -fluoro ribosyl;
or the glycosyl groups at the 1 st, 4 th, 9 th, 10 th and 14 th positions of the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO.28 are 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, the glycosyl group at the 2 nd position of the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO.29 of the antisense strand of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, and the glycosyl groups at the 3 rd, 5 th, 7 th, 8 th, 13 th, 15 th and 18 th positions are 2 ' -fluororibosyl;
or the glycosyl at the 1 st, 2 nd, 3 rd, 7 th, 14 th, 15 th, 17 th and 18 th positions of the nucleotide sequence of the sense strand SEQ ID NO.30 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, the glycosyl at the 2 nd position of the nucleotide sequence of the antisense strand SEQ ID NO.31 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, and the glycosyl at the 4 th, 7 th, 8 th, 9 th, 12 th, 15 th and 16 th positions is 2 ' -fluororibosyl;
or the glycosyl groups at the 1 st, 3 rd, 7 th, 15 th and 18 th positions of the nucleotide sequence of the sense strand SEQ ID NO.30 of the siRNA are 2 ' -methoxy ribosyl, the glycosyl group at the 2 nd position of the nucleotide sequence of the antisense strand SEQ ID NO.31 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxy ribosyl, and the glycosyl groups at the 4 th, 12 th and 16 th positions are 2 ' -fluoro ribosyl;
or the glycosyl at the 1 st, 3 rd, 7 th, 14 th, 15 th, 17 th and 18 th positions of the nucleotide sequence of the sense strand SEQ ID NO.30 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, the glycosyl at the 2 nd position of the nucleotide sequence of the antisense strand SEQ ID NO.31 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, and the glycosyl at the 4 th, 7 th, 8 th, 12 th and 16 th positions is 2 ' -fluororibosyl.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, the phosphate group between positions 20 and 21 of the nucleotide sequence of the sense strand and/or the antisense strand of the siRNA is a phosphorothioate group.
It is clear to those skilled in the art that the siRNA of the present disclosure can be obtained by methods conventional in the art for siRNA preparation (e.g., solid phase synthesis and solution phase synthesis), wherein solid phase synthesis is already commercially available for custom service; it is also clear to those skilled in the art that modified nucleotide groups can be introduced into the sirnas described in the present disclosure by using nucleotide monomers with corresponding modifications, wherein methods of preparing nucleotide monomers with corresponding modifications are well known to those skilled in the art and commercially available monomers are also available on the market.
In a second aspect, the present disclosure provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising the siRNA as described above and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
The pharmaceutically acceptable carrier may be a carrier conventionally used in the field of siRNA administration, such as, but not limited to, magnetic nanoparticles (e.g., Fe3O4, Fe2O3), carbon nanotubes (carbon nanotubes), mesoporous silicon (mesopore silicon), calcium phosphate nanoparticles (calcium nanoparticles), Polyethyleneimine (PEI), polyamidoamine (pamam) dendrimer), polylysine (L-lysine), PLL), chitosan (chitosan), 1, 2-dioleoyl-3-trimethacropane (1, 2-dioleoyl-3-trimethacrylonitrile-propane, DOTAP), poly (D-or L-type lactic acid/glycolic acid copolymer (D & L-lactic acid/glycolic acid) copolymer, Poly (PLGA) (polyethylene-co-ethyl methacrylate), poly (ethylene-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA), poly (ethylene-co-methacrylic acid) (polyethylene-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA), poly (ethylene-methacrylic acid) (polyethylene-co-methacrylic acid) (eee), n-dimethylaminoethyl ester (poly (2-dimethylamino ethyl methacrylate), PDMAEMA) and one or more of their derivatives. In the pharmaceutical composition of the present disclosure, there is no particular requirement on the content of siRNA and pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, and generally, the weight ratio of siRNA to pharmaceutically acceptable carrier may be 1 (1-500), preferably 1: (1-50).
The pharmaceutical composition may further comprise other pharmaceutically acceptable excipients, which may be one or more of various formulations or compounds conventionally employed in the art. For example, the pharmaceutically acceptable additional excipients may include at least one of a pH buffer, a protective agent, and an osmotic pressure regulator. The pH buffer solution can be Tris-HCl buffer solution with pH value of 7.5-8.5 and/or phosphate buffer solution with pH value of 5.5-8.5, preferably phosphate buffer solution with pH value of 5.5-8.5. The protective agent may be at least one of inositol, sorbitol, sucrose, trehalose, mannose, maltose, lactose, and glucose. The content of the protective agent may be 0.01 to 30% by weight, based on the total weight of the pharmaceutical composition. The osmotic pressure regulator may be sodium chloride and/or potassium chloride. The content of the osmotic pressure regulator ensures that the osmotic pressure of the drug composition is (200-700) mOsm/kg. The content of the osmolality adjusting agent can be easily determined by the skilled person, depending on the desired osmolality.
The pharmaceutical composition may be a liquid formulation, such as an injection solution; or can be lyophilized powder for injection, and can be mixed with liquid adjuvant to make into liquid preparation. The liquid preparation can be used for subcutaneous, intramuscular or intravenous injection, and can also be used for spraying administration to the lung or spraying administration to other organ tissues (such as liver). Preferably, the pharmaceutical composition is for intravenous administration.
According to the second aspect of the present disclosure, preferably, the pharmaceutically acceptable carrier is an amine-containing transfection reagent comprising an organic amine, a helper lipid, and a pegylated lipid; wherein the organic amine may be selected from the amine-containing transfection compounds described in CN201180060664.1 and/or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The inventors of the present disclosure unexpectedly found that the specific pharmaceutical composition provided by the present disclosure, which contains siRNA and the amine-containing transfection reagent, does not affect the activity of siRNA itself while further improving the stability and targeting property of the pharmaceutical composition to liver, and has a good clinical application prospect. More preferably, the organic amine is a compound represented by formula (2) and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof:
Figure BDA0001190708770000061
wherein:
X1and X2Each independently O, S, N-A or C-A, wherein A is hydrogen or a C1-C20 hydrocarbon chain;
y and Z are each independently C O, C S, S O, CH OH or SO2
R1、R2、R3、R4、R5、R6And R7Each independently is hydrogen, a cyclic or acyclic, substituted or unsubstituted, branched or linear aliphatic group, a cyclic or acyclic, substituted or unsubstituted, branched or linear heteroaliphatic group, a substituted or unsubstituted, branched or linear acyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted, branched or linear aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted, branched or linear heteroaryl group;
x is an integer from 1 to 10;
n is an integer of 1 to 3, m is an integer of 0 to 20, p is 0 or 1; wherein if m ═ p ═ 0, then R2Is hydrogen;
and, if at least one of n or m is 2, then R3And the nitrogen in formula (2) forms a structure as shown in formula (3) or formula (4):
Figure BDA0001190708770000071
wherein g, e and f are each independently an integer of 1 to 6, "HCC" represents a hydrocarbon chain, and each xn represents a nitrogen atom in formula (2).
In certain embodiments, R3Is a polyamine. In other embodiments, R3Is a ketal. In certain embodiments, R in formula (2)1And R2Each of which is independently an optionally substituted or unsubstituted, branched or straight chain alkyl or alkenyl group having from 3 to about 20 carbon atoms, such as from 8 to about 18 carbon atoms, and from 0 to 4 double bonds, such as0 to 2 double bonds.
In certain embodiments, if each of n and m independently has a value of 1 or 3, R3Is any one of the following formulae (5) to (14):
Figure BDA0001190708770000072
Figure BDA0001190708770000081
wherein, in formula (5) -formula (14), each "HCC" represents a hydrocarbon chain, and each indicates R3A possible point of attachment to a nitrogen atom in formula (2), wherein each H at any x position may be replaced to achieve attachment to a nitrogen atom in formula (2).
Among them, the compound represented by the formula (2) can be prepared according to the description in CN 201180060664.1.
According to the second aspect of the present disclosure, it is particularly preferred that the organic amine is an organic amine represented by formula (15) and/or an organic amine represented by formula (16):
Figure BDA0001190708770000082
the helper lipid is cholesterol, cholesterol analogue and/or cholesterol derivative;
the pegylated lipid is 1, 2-dipalmitoamide-sn-glycerol-3-phosphatidylethanolamine-N- [ methoxy (polyethylene glycol) ] -2000.
According to a second aspect of the present disclosure, in the pharmaceutical composition, the molar ratio among the organic amine, the helper lipid and the pegylated lipid is (19.7-80): (19.7-80): (0.3-50).
Preferably, in the pharmaceutical composition, the molar ratio of the organic amine to the helper lipid to the pegylated lipid is (50-70): (20-40): (3-20).
The particles of the pharmaceutical composition formed by the sirnas of the present disclosure and the above-described amine-containing transfection reagents have an average diameter of about 30nm to about 200nm, typically about 40nm to about 135nm, more typically the liposome particles have an average diameter of about 50nm to about 120nm, about 50nm to about 100nm, about 60nm to about 90nm, or about 70nm to about 90nm, for example, the liposome particles have an average diameter of about 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 100, 110, 120, 130, 140, 150, or 160 nm.
In the pharmaceutical composition formed by the siRNA of the present disclosure and the amine-containing transfection reagent described above, the weight ratio (weight/weight ratio) of the siRNA to total lipid (e.g., organic amine, helper lipid, and/or pegylated lipid) is in the range of from about 1:1 to about 1:50, from about 1:1 to about 1:30, from about 1:3 to about 1:20, from about 1:4 to about 1:18, from about 1:5 to about 1:17, from about 1:5 to about 1:15, from about 1:5 to about 1:12, from about 1:6 to about 1:12, or from about 1:6 to about 1:10, e.g., the weight ratio of the siRNA to total lipid of the present disclosure is about 1:5, 1:6, 1:7, 1:8, 1:9, 1:10, 1:11, 1:12, 1:13, 1:14, 1:15, 1:16, 1:17, or 1: 18.
The pharmaceutical compositions provided by the present disclosure may be sold separately from the components and may be presented in liquid formulations for use. The pharmaceutical composition formed by the siRNA provided by the present disclosure and the above pharmaceutically acceptable carrier may be prepared according to various known methods; preferably, the pharmaceutical composition of the siRNA provided by the present disclosure and the above amine-containing transfection reagent can be prepared according to the method described in CN 201180060664.1; more preferably, it can be prepared as follows:
suspending organic amine, auxiliary lipid and pegylated lipid in alcohol according to the molar ratio and uniformly mixing to obtain a lipid solution; the amount of alcohol is such that the total mass concentration of the resulting lipid solution is 2-25mg/mL, preferably 8-18 mg/mL. The alcohol is selected from pharmaceutically acceptable alcohols, such as alcohols that are liquid at about room temperature, e.g., one or more of ethanol, propylene glycol, benzyl alcohol, glycerol, polyethylene glycol 200, polyethylene glycol 300, polyethylene glycol 400, preferably ethanol.
The siRNA provided by the present disclosure is dissolved in a buffered salt solution to obtain an siRNA aqueous solution. The concentration of the buffered salt solution is 0.05-0.5M, preferably 0.1-0.2M, the pH of the buffered salt solution is adjusted to 4.0-5.5, preferably 5.0-5.2, and the amount of the buffered salt solution is such that the concentration of siRNA does not exceed 0.6mg/mL, preferably 0.2-0.4 mg/mL. The buffer salt is selected from one or more of soluble acetate and soluble citrate, and is preferably sodium acetate and/or potassium acetate.
Mixing the lipid solution and the siRNA aqueous solution, and incubating the product obtained after mixing at 40-60 ℃ for at least 2 minutes, preferably 5-30 minutes to obtain the incubated liposome preparation. The volume ratio of the lipid solution to the siRNA aqueous solution is 1: (2-5), preferably 1: 3.
Concentrating or diluting the incubated liposome preparation, removing impurities and sterilizing to obtain the pharmaceutical composition provided by the disclosure, wherein the physicochemical parameters are that the pH value is 6.5-8, the encapsulation rate is not lower than 80%, the particle size is 40-200nm, the polydispersity index is not higher than 0.30, and the osmotic pressure is 250-400 mOsm/kg; preferably, the pH value is 7.2-7.6, the encapsulation efficiency is not lower than 90%, the particle size is 60-100nm, the polydispersity index is not higher than 0.20, and the osmotic pressure is 300-400 mOsm/kg.
Wherein the concentration or dilution may be performed before, after or simultaneously with the removal of the impurities. The method for removing impurities can adopt various methods, preferably using a phase-cut flow system, a hollow fiber column, and performing ultrafiltration under the condition of 100K Da, wherein the ultrafiltration exchange solution is Phosphate Buffer Solution (PBS) with pH 7.4. The sterilization can be carried out by various methods, and preferably by filtration sterilization on a 0.22 μm filter.
In a third aspect, the present disclosure provides a kit comprising an siRNA according to the first aspect and/or a pharmaceutical composition according to the second aspect.
According to the kit of the present disclosure, the siRNA, the pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and the adjuvant may be present alone, in the form of a mixture of two or more thereof, or in the form of a final pharmaceutical composition. When the pharmaceutically acceptable carrier is present alone and the carrier is the above-mentioned amine-containing transfection reagent, the organic amine, the helper lipid, and the pegylated lipid may be present independently of each other or in the form of a mixture of two or three thereof. In one embodiment, one container may be used to provide the siRNA, another container or containers may be used to provide the organic amine, helper lipid, and pegylated lipid, and optionally the other container or containers may be used to provide the adjunct.
In addition to the siRNA and pharmaceutically acceptable carriers and/or adjuvants, the kits may also contain components necessary or beneficial to achieve one or more particular applications of the pharmaceutical compositions provided by the present disclosure, such as (1) one or more components for achieving desired cell transfection, (2) one or more components for achieving diagnosis, treatment or prevention of a particular disease or physical disorder, such as one or more additional therapeutic compounds or compositions, one or more diagnostic agents, (3) one or more buffers, (4) positive or negative control samples, (5) excipients, stabilizers or preservatives, and the like. Generally, the components are present in a container that is distinct from both the containers for the siRNA and the pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and/or adjuvant. In addition, the kit may further comprise instructions for mixing the siRNA with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and/or adjuvant or other ingredients.
In the kits of the present disclosure, the siRNA and pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and/or adjuvant may be provided in any form, such as a liquid form, a dried form, or a lyophilized form. Preferably, the siRNA and pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and/or adjuvant are substantially pure and/or sterile. One or more of sterile water, saline, PBS may optionally be provided in the kits of the present disclosure.
In a fourth aspect, the present disclosure provides the use of the siRNA of the first aspect and/or the pharmaceutical composition of the second aspect in the preparation of a medicament for the prevention and/or treatment of dyslipidemia, including but not limited to hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, atherosclerosis.
In a fifth aspect, the present disclosure provides a method of preventing and/or treating dyslipidemia, the method comprising administering to a patient in need thereof an siRNA according to the first aspect and/or a pharmaceutical composition according to the second aspect.
By administering the siRNA and/or pharmaceutical composition of the present disclosure to a patient in need thereof, prevention and/or treatment of dyslipidemia can be achieved through the mechanism of RNA interference. Therefore, the siRNA and/or the pharmaceutical composition of the present disclosure may be used for preventing and/or treating dyslipidemia, or for preparing a medicament for preventing and/or treating dyslipidemia.
The term "administering" as used in this disclosure refers to placing an siRNA or pharmaceutical composition into a subject by a method or route that results in at least partially positioning the siRNA or pharmaceutical composition at a desired site to produce a desired effect. Routes of administration suitable for the methods of the present disclosure include local administration and systemic administration. In general, topical administration results in delivery of more siRNA or pharmaceutical composition to a particular site as compared to the subject's entire body; whereas systemic administration results in delivery of the siRNA or pharmaceutical composition to substantially the entire body of the subject. In view of the present disclosure aimed at providing a means of preventing and/or treating dyslipidemia, administration means capable of delivering the drug to the liver is preferred.
Administration to a subject can be by any suitable route known in the art, including but not limited to: oral or parenteral routes, including intravenous, intramuscular, subcutaneous, transdermal, airway (aerosol), pulmonary, nasal, rectal, and topical (including buccal and sublingual) administration. The frequency of administration may be 1 or more times per day, week, month or year.
The dosage of the siRNA or pharmaceutical composition described in the present disclosure may be a dosage that is conventional in the art, and the dosage may be determined according to various parameters, particularly age, weight and sex of the subject. Toxicity and therapeutic efficacy can be determined by standard pharmaceutical procedures in cell cultures or experimental animals, e.g., for determining LD50 (the dose lethal to 50% of the population) and ED50 (the dose that gives rise to 50% of the maximal response intensity in a quantitative response and the dose that gives rise to a positive response in 50% of the subjects in a qualitative response). The dose ratio between toxic and therapeutic effects is the therapeutic index and can be expressed as the ratio LD50/ED 50. siRNA or pharmaceutical compositions exhibiting high therapeutic index are preferred. The range of human doses can be derived based on data obtained from cell culture analysis and animal studies.
In administering the pharmaceutical compositions of the present disclosure, for example, for a male or female, 6-12 week old, human APOC3 transgenic mouse (B6; CBA-Tg (APOC3)3707Bres/J) weighing 18-25g, based on the amount of siRNA in the pharmaceutical composition: for pharmaceutical compositions of siRNA and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, the amount of siRNA may be from 0.001 to 50mg/kg body weight, preferably from 0.01 to 10mg/kg body weight, more preferably from 0.05 to 5mg/kg body weight, and most preferably from 0.1 to 3mg/kg body weight; in administering the siRNA of the present disclosure, reference may be made to the above amounts.
In a sixth aspect, the present disclosure provides a method for inhibiting the expression of APOC3 gene in a hepatocyte, the method comprising introducing the siRNA of the first aspect and/or the pharmaceutical composition of the second aspect into the hepatocyte, and achieving the purpose of inhibiting the expression of APOC3 gene in the hepatocyte through the mechanism of RNA interference. In a preferred embodiment, the cell is a Huh7 cell.
Using the methods provided by the present disclosure to inhibit expression of the APOC3 gene in a cell, whether using the siRNA provided or the pharmaceutical composition, the amount of siRNA used is typically such that: it is sufficient to reduce the expression of the target gene and result in an extracellular concentration at the surface of the target cell of 100pM to 1 μ M, or 1nM to 100nM, or 5nM to 50nM or to about 10 nM. The amount required to achieve this local concentration will vary depending on a variety of factors including the method of delivery, the site of delivery, the number of cell layers between the delivery site and the target cell or tissue, whether the delivery is local or systemic, and the like. The concentration at the delivery site may be significantly higher than the concentration at the surface of the target cell or tissue.
The present disclosure is further illustrated by the following examples, but is not to be construed as being limited thereby.
Unless otherwise specified, the reagents, culture media and other test materials used in the present disclosure are commercially available.
Preparation example 1
The sequence of siRNA is shown in Table 2, the nucleotide sequence of sense strand numbered as siAP-1 is shown in SEQ ID NO.6, wherein the nucleotide sequence at 1-19 is the same as the target nucleic acid shown in SEQ ID NO.1 in the mRNA sequence of human APOC3 (NM-000040.1); the nucleotide sequence of the antisense strand of the siRNA is shown as SEQ ID NO.7, wherein the nucleotide sequence at 1-19 sites is complementary with the target nucleic acid shown as SEQ ID NO.1 in the table 1. The nucleotide sequence of the sense strand with the number of siAP-2 is shown as SEQ ID NO.8, wherein the nucleotide sequence of 1-19 sites is the same as the target nucleic acid shown as SEQ ID NO.2 in the APOC3mRNA sequence; the nucleotide sequence of the antisense strand of the siRNA is shown as SEQ ID NO.9, wherein the nucleotide sequence at 1-19 sites is complementary with the target nucleic acid shown as SEQ ID NO.2 in the table 1. The nucleotide sequence of the sense strand with the number of siAP-3 is shown as SEQ ID NO.10, wherein the nucleotide sequence of 1-19 sites is the same as the target nucleic acid shown as SEQ ID NO.3 in the APOC3mRNA sequence; the nucleotide sequence of the antisense strand of the siRNA is shown as SEQ ID NO.11, wherein the nucleotide sequence at 1-19 sites is complementary with the target nucleic acid shown as SEQ ID NO.3 in the table 1. The nucleotide sequence of the sense strand with the number of siAP-4 is shown as SEQ ID NO.12, wherein the nucleotide sequence of 1-19 sites is the same as the target nucleic acid shown as SEQ ID NO.4 in the APOC3mRNA sequence; the nucleotide sequence of the antisense strand of the siRNA is shown as SEQ ID NO.13, wherein the nucleotide sequence at 1-19 sites is complementary with the target nucleic acid shown as SEQ ID NO.4 in Table 1. The nucleotide sequence of the sense strand with the number of siAP-5 is shown as SEQ ID NO.14, wherein the nucleotide sequence of 1-19 sites is the same as the target nucleic acid shown as SEQ ID NO.5 in the APOC3mRNA sequence; the nucleotide sequence of the antisense strand of the siRNA is shown as SEQ ID NO.15, wherein the nucleotide sequence at 1-19 sites is complementary with the target nucleic acid shown as SEQ ID NO.5 in the table 1.
As shown in Table 2, the preparation example further provided siRNA with a sense strand nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO.16 and an antisense strand nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO.17, and the number of siRNA is sinC. siNC is an unrelated sequence that has no corresponding target site to APOC3mRNA and serves as a negative control.
The single oligonucleotide strand of siRNA is chemically synthesized according to methods known in the art by adding two deoxythymine nucleotides dTdT to the 3' end of the single oligonucleotide strand. The complementary sense and antisense strands of the siRNA anneal to form a double strand such that the ends of the double strand each have a 3' overhang of dTdT.
TABLE 1
Name of Gene SEQ ID No. Nucleotide sequence (5 '→ 3') Corresponding mRNA target site sequences
APOC3 1 UCAGUUCCCUGAAAGACUA 246-264
APOC3 2 CCAAUAAAGCUGGACAAGA 505-523
APOC3 3 CAAUAAAGCUGGACAAGAA 506-524
APOC3 4 GCUGGACAAGAAGCUGCUA 513-531
APOC3 5 GCAGCGUGCAGGAGUCCCA 189-207
TABLE 2
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Example 1
This example was conducted to examine the inhibition rate of the siRNA obtained in preparation example 1 on the expression level of APOC3mRNA in vitro.
Inoculating human liver cancer cell line Huh7 into 24-well plate with DMEM complete culture medium containing 10% fetal calf serum at inoculation density of 4 × 105Cells/well, 0.5mL of medium per well, incubated overnight at 37 ℃.
The cell culture medium in the 24-well plate was aspirated away, and 0.5mL of Opti-MEM serum-free medium was added to each well. mu.L of each siRNA in preparation example 1 at a concentration of 20. mu.M was diluted with 50. mu.L of Opti-MEM serum-free medium; mu.L of LipofectamineTM2000(Invitrogen corporation) in 50. mu.L of Opti-MEM serum-free medium, mixed and incubated at room temperature for 5 minutes; mixing diluted siRNA and diluted LipofectamineTM2000, gently mixed and left to stand at room temperature for 20 minutes to allow complex formation. The above final mixed solution was added to a 24-well plate seeded with Huh7 cells at 100. mu.L per well. The final concentration of siRNA was approximately 50 nM. The cells were cultured at 37 ℃ for 4 hours, and 1mL of DMEM complete medium containing 10% fetal bovine serum was added to each well, and the culture was continued overnight at 37 ℃.
The expression level of APOC3mRNA in Huh7 cells transfected with sinC, siAP-1, siAP-2, siAP-3, siAP-4 and siAP-5 was determined by Real-Time fluorescent Quantitative PCR (Quantitative Real-Time PCR). The method comprises the following specific steps: after culturing the transfected cells for 24 hours, total RNA in the cells was extracted using RNAvzol (Vigorous, cat # N002); mu.g of each of the total RNAs were reverse-transcribed to obtain cDNAs according to the method used in a reverse transcription kit (Promega corporation, cat. No. A3500). The expression level of APOC3mRNA was detected using 2X Ultra SYBR Mixed (with ROX) (Beijing Kan is a century Biotechnology Co., Ltd., product No. CW0956) kit and cDNA as a template according to the procedures described in the specification. Among them, PCR primers for amplifying APOC3 and β -actin as an internal reference gene are shown in Table 3.
TABLE 3
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The inhibition rate of siRNA on APOC3mRNA expression level was calculated as follows: the inhibition rate was [1- (expression level of APOC3mRNA in experimental group/expression level of β -Actin mRNA in experimental group)/(expression level of APOC3mRNA in negative control group/expression level of β -Actin mRNA in negative control group) ] × 100%. Wherein each experimental group was Huh7 cells treated with siAP-1, siAP-2, siAP-3, siAP-4 and siAP-5, respectively; an equal amount of siNC-treated Huh7 cells served as a negative control. The results are shown in Table 4.
TABLE 4
siRNA mRNA inhibition (%)
siNC 0
siAP-1 81
siAP-2 91
siAP-3 80
siAP-4 79
siAP-5 7.2
As can be seen from Table 4, the siAP-1, siAP-2, siAP-3 and siAP-4 of the present disclosure have exceptionally high inhibitory activity, with inhibition rates of greater than 79% for APOC3mRNA expression levels, while siAP-5 has little activity (mRNA inhibition rates of only 7%). As can be seen, siAP-1, siAP-2, siAP-3 and siAP-4 can effectively inhibit the expression of the target APOC 3.
Preparation example 2
siRNA obtained by chemically modifying the sense strand and the antisense strand of siRNA with the numbering of siNC is shown in Table 5 and numbered as siNC-M; the siRNA of group 3 obtained by chemical modification of sense strand and antisense strand of siRNA with SiAP-1 is shown in Table 5, and numbered as SiAP-1-M1, SiAP-1-M2, and SiAP-1-M3. The siRNA of group 3 obtained by chemical modification of sense strand and antisense strand of siRNA with SiAP-2 is shown in Table 5, and numbered as SiAP-2-M1, SiAP-2-M2 and SiAP-2-M3. The siRNA of group 3 obtained by chemically modifying the sense strand and the antisense strand of the siRNA of SiAP-3 are shown in Table 5 and respectively numbered as SiAP-3-M1, SiAP-3-M2 and SiAP-3-M3. The siRNA of group 3 obtained by chemical modification of sense strand and antisense strand of siRNA with SiAP-4 is shown in Table 5, and numbered as SiAP-4-M1, SiAP-4-M2 and SiAP-4-M3.
Wherein m represents the pentose group in the nucleotide residue on the left thereof as a 2 '-methoxyribosyl group, and f represents the pentose group in the nucleotide residue on the left thereof as a 2' -fluororibosyl group; s represents that the phosphate group between the deoxyribonucleotide residues dTdT on the left and right sides thereof is a phosphorothioate group.
TABLE 5
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Example 2
This example was conducted to examine the inhibition rate of the siRNA obtained in preparation examples 1 and 2 on the expression level of APOC3mRNA in vitro. The experimental procedure was the same as in example 1, and the results are shown in Table 6.
TABLE 6
siRNA mRNA inhibition (%)
siNC 0
siAP-1 82
siAP-1-M1 82
siAP-1-M2 61
siAP-1-M3 75
siAP-2 90
siAP-2-M1 86
siAP-2-M2 88
siAP-2-M3 84
siAP-3 81
siAP-3-M1 86
siAP-3-M2 82
siAP-3-M3 86
siAP-4 77
siAP-4-M1 64
siAP-4-M2 70
siAP-4-M3 70
As can be seen from Table 6, the chemically modified siRNAs (siAP-1-M1, siAP-1-M2, siAP-1-M3, siAP-2-M1, siAP-2-M2, siAP-2-M3, siAP-3-M1, siAP-3-M2, siAP-3-M3, siAP-4-M1, siAP-4-M2 and siAP-4-M3) have an inhibitory activity comparable to or slightly lower than that of the unmodified siRNAs (siAP-1, siAP-2, siAP-3 and siAP-4), respectively, but can still efficiently inhibit the expression of the target APOC 3.
Example 3
This example was used to test the stability of the sirnas obtained in preparation examples 1 and 2 in human plasma in vitro.
10. mu.L each of the above-described modified and unmodified siRNAs at a concentration of 20. mu.M were mixed with 90. mu.L of 50% Human plasma (diluted in PBS) and incubated in vitro at 37 ℃ for 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 24, 48 and 72 hours to obtain treated samples. 10 mu L of the treated sample is taken, immediately subjected to liquid nitrogen quick freezing and frozen at-80 ℃ for later use. After sampling at 8 time points, the samples were diluted 5-fold with 1 XPBS (pH7.4), and 10. mu.L of each time point processed sample was subjected to 20% PAGE gel electrophoresis. 20% polyacrylamide gel was prepared, and 10. mu.L of the above sample diluted 5-fold with 1 XPBS dilution of pH7.4 was mixed with 4. mu.L of loading buffer (20mM EDTA, 36% glycerol, 0.06% bromophenol blue), loaded, and electrophoresed under a constant current of 80mA for about 60 minutes. After completion of the electrophoresis, the mixture was stained with 1 XSybr Gold dye (Invitrogen, cat. No. 11494) for 15 minutes, followed by phase formation and observation.
FIG. 1 shows the results of stability tests in plasma environment for nucleic acid sequences of siNC, siNC-M, siAP-1, siAP-1-M1, siAP-1-M2, siAP-1-M3, siAP-2-M1, siAP-2-M2, siAP-2-M3, siAP-3-M1, siAP-3-M2, siAP-3-M3, siAP-4-M1, siAP-4-M2 and siAP-4-M3, where M is an equivalent amount of marker without siRNA human plasma treatment and the siNC-M is stable in human plasma as a positive control. The result shows that the retention time of unmodified siAP-1 and siAP-2 in plasma is about 4-6h, the siRNA is shown to be incubated with the plasma for about 4-6h, and the electrophoresis shows that the siRNA bands are invisible or very weak; the siAP-3 and siAP-4 showed extremely high plasma stability, which is shown in that after siRNA is added into human plasma and incubated for a certain time, the main band (the band parallel to the band shown by M and representing the full-length sequence) can stably exist in the plasma for about 72 h. All modified siRNAs showed extremely high plasma stability, and the stable existence time of the main band in plasma can be extended to 72h, so that the degradation time of the siRNA is greatly delayed or not degraded. It is demonstrated that the sirnas of the present disclosure, and in particular the modified sirnas, have the potential to be used as a drug in animals.
Preparation example 3
This preparation example was used to prepare pharmaceutical siRNA compositions RBP131/siRNA and RBP 130/siRNA.
Three dry powder lipid compounds, namely organic amine (shown as a formula (15) or a formula (16), and the preparation method thereof is shown in a compound 87 or 72 in CN 201180060664.1), cholesterol and 1, 2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycerol-3-phosphatidylethanolamine-N- [ methoxy (polyethylene glycol) -2000] are suspended in ethanol according to a molar ratio of 59:29:12 and are uniformly mixed to obtain a lipid ethanol solution, wherein the total mass concentration of the lipid solution is 8.85 mg/mL. Respectively dissolving siNC-M, siAP-1-M1, siAP-1-M2, siAP-1-M3, siAP-2-M1, siAP-2-M2, siAP-2-M3, siAP-3-M1, siAP-3-M2, siAP-3-M3, siAP-4-M1, siAP-4-M2 and siAP-4-M3 in 200mM sodium acetate (pH5.2) solution to make the siRNA concentration be 0.2mg/mL to obtain siRNA sodium acetate aqueous solution. 1 volume of lipid ethanol solution and 3 volumes of aqueous siRNA sodium acetate solution were mixed rapidly. The specific composition of the liposome preparation after mixing is shown in table 7.
TABLE 7
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Incubating the liposome preparation obtained after mixing at 50 deg.C for 10 min, and using the incubated liposome preparation
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A phase-cut flow system, wherein the hollow fiber is used for ultrafiltration with 100KDa, and the ultrafiltration exchange solution is PBS with pH7.4. The siRNA concentration of the preparation is concentrated or diluted to a target value while ultrafiltration is performed. The ultrafiltered preparation was sterile filtered on a 0.22 μm filter.
An amine-containing transfection reagent consisting of an organic amine represented by formula (15), cholesterol, 1, 2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphatidylethanolamine-N- [ methoxy (polyethylene glycol) -2000] is referred to as RBP 131; an amine-containing transfection reagent consisting of an organic amine represented by formula (16), cholesterol, and 1, 2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphatidylethanolamine-N- [ methoxy (polyethylene glycol) -2000] is called RBP 130. The obtained pharmaceutical composition RBP131/siRNA or RBP130/siRNA is stored at 4 ℃ before use, and relevant physicochemical properties are detected, wherein the physicochemical parameters of the RBP131/siRNA and the RBP130/siRNA are similar, and the detection results are shown in Table 8.
TABLE 8
Detection of indications Results
pH 7.2-7.6
Encapsulation efficiency (%) ≥90%
siRNA concentration (mg/mL) 0.10-0.15
Particle size (nm) 60-100
Polydispersity index ≤0.2
Osmotic pressure (mOsm/kg) 300-400
Wherein the encapsulation rate is detected by RiboGreen method, and the used reagent (Quant-iT)TM
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RNA Reagent and Kit) was purchased from Thermo Fisher (Invitrogen) Inc., cat # R11490. The fluorescence intensity of siRNA in the sample was measured according to the procedures described in the specification, and the encapsulation efficiency was calculated according to the method described in the literature (J.Heyes et. al, Journal of Controlled Release,107(2005): 276-):
the encapsulation efficiency was [ (fluorescence intensity of Triton-treated group-fluorescence intensity of non-Triton-treated group)/fluorescence intensity of Triton-treated group ]. times.100%
Other physicochemical parameters were determined using conventional techniques well known to those skilled in the art.
Example 4
This example was conducted to examine the effect of the RBP131/siRNA pharmaceutical composition of preparation 3 on the inhibition rate of APOC3 expression level in liver tissue and on the blood lipid (LDL-cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol and triglyceride in blood) level in human APOC3 transgenic mice (B6; CBA-Tg (APOC3)3707Bres/J, purchased from Jackson Lab).
(1) Method of administering drugs to mice
Human APOC3 transgenic mice 6-8 weeks old were randomly divided into 15 groups of 6 mice (male and female halves) each, as follows: (1) PBS control group (1 × PBS); (2) negative control group (RBP 131/sNC-M); (3) positive control group (atorvastatin); (4) RBP131/siAP-1-M1 group; (5) RBP131/siAP-1-M2 group; (6) RBP131/siAP-1-M3 group; (7) RBP131/siAP-2-M1 group; (8) RBP131/siAP-2-M2 group; (9) RBP131/siAP-2-M3 group; (10) RBP131/siAP-3-M1 group; (11) RBP131/siAP-3-M2 group; (12) RBP131/siAP-3-M3 group; (13) RBP131/siAP-4-M1 group; (14) RBP131/siAP-4-M2 group; (15) RBP131/siAP-4-M3 group. All animals were dosed according to mouse body weight. Atorvastatin (Atorvastatin) of a positive control group is administrated in a gastric lavage manner, the administration dose is 0.5mg/kg, the administration volume is 10mL/kg, and the administration is carried out once a day. The other animals were administered by tail vein injection, with siRNA dose of 1mg/kg and administration volume of 10mL/kg, once a week. All animals in all groups were dosed for 4 weeks, and whole blood and liver tissue were collected 48h after the last dose.
(2) Mouse liver tissue APOC3 expression level detection
The collected liver tissues were stored in RNAlater (Sigma Aldrich Co., Cat. No. R0901); liver tissue was homogenized using a tissue homogenizer and total RNA was extracted using TRIzol (Thermo Fisher Co., Ltd., cat # 15596026) according to the protocol. Reverse transcribing the total RNA into cDNA, and detecting the expression level of APOC3 in the liver tissue by a real-time fluorescent quantitative PCR method; reverse transcription and real-time fluorescent quantitative PCR detailed procedure referring to example 1, PCR primers for amplifying APOC3 are shown in Table 9, and PCR primers for beta-actin as an internal reference gene are shown in Table 9. The calculation of inhibition rate of APOC3 expression by siRNA is described in example 1. Specific results are shown in table 10.
TABLE 9
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(3) Detection of LDL-C, HDL-C and TG content in blood of mouse
The collected whole blood was centrifuged to obtain serum, and the serum was further subjected to measurement of the contents of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and Triglyceride (TG) using a PM4000/3 full-automatic serum Biochemical Analyzer (SABA, Italy). The rate of change of blood lipid levels was calculated as follows, based on the blood lipid levels of the PBS group as 100%: the blood lipid change rate is (mean value of blood lipid data of a group to be detected/mean value of blood lipid data of a PBS group) multiplied by 100%. The results of the measurements are shown in Table 10.
Watch 10
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As can be seen by comparison of the pharmaceutical compositions in Table 10, the pharmaceutical compositions used in the present disclosure have an inhibition rate of more than 70% and up to 95% on the expression of APOC3mRNA in human APOC3 transgenic mice, and the detection of the contents of LDL-C, HDL-C and TG in the serum of mice after administration shows that after administration, the contents of LDL-C and TG in human APOC3 transgenic blood treated by the pharmaceutical compositions are significantly lower than that before administration, the inhibition rate of LDL-C is 10-20%, the inhibition rate of TG is 10-30%, and the HDL-C level is increased to some extent, thus showing positive therapeutic effects. In addition, compared with the positive medicine atorvastatin, the RBP131/siRNA pharmaceutical composition has more obvious reduction of LDL-C and TG contents in blood under the conditions of reducing administration times and prolonging administration intervals, achieves the effect superior to that of atorvastatin and has very obvious advantages. The pharmaceutical composition RBP131/siRNA can play a good biological activity in a human APOC3 transgenic mouse, and has great potential for clinical application.
In addition, the RBP130/siRNA pharmaceutical composition obtained in preparation example 3 was tested in the same manner, and the test results were similar to those of the RBP131/siRNA pharmaceutical composition.
The siRNA provided by the disclosure is a brand new means for effectively preventing and/or treating dyslipidemia, and effectively prevents and/or treats dyslipidemia by inhibiting the expression of APOC3 gene to cause the reduction of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglyceride content in blood; in addition, the RBP131/siRNA or RBP130/siRNA pharmaceutical composition provided by the disclosure is targeted to the liver, can effectively reduce the expression of APOC3 gene in the liver, and can prevent and/or treat dyslipidemia.
The preferred embodiments of the present disclosure are described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, however, the present disclosure is not limited to the specific details of the above embodiments, and various simple modifications may be made to the technical solution of the present disclosure within the technical idea of the present disclosure, and these simple modifications all belong to the protection scope of the present disclosure.
It should be noted that the various features described in the above embodiments may be combined in any suitable manner without departing from the scope of the invention. In order to avoid unnecessary repetition, various possible combinations will not be separately described in this disclosure.
In addition, any combination of various embodiments of the present disclosure may be made, and the same should be considered as the disclosure of the present disclosure, as long as it does not depart from the spirit of the present disclosure.
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ccaauaaagc uggacaagan n 21
<210> 9
<211> 21
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ucuuguccag cuuuauuggn n 21
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caauaaagcu ggacaagaan n 21
<210> 11
<211> 21
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uucuugucca gcuuuauugn n 21
<210> 12
<211> 21
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gcuggacaag aagcugcuan n 21
<210> 13
<211> 21
<212> RNA
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<220>
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<400> 13
uagcagcuuc uuguccagcn n 21
<210> 14
<211> 21
<212> RNA
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<400> 14
gcagcgugca ggagucccan n 21
<210> 15
<211> 21
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<400> 15
ugggacuccu gcacgcugcn n 21
<210> 16
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uucuccgaac gugucacgun n 21
<210> 17
<211> 21
<212> RNA
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acgugacacg uucggagaan n 21
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gtgaccgatg gcttcagttc 20
<210> 19
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atggataggc aggtggactt 20
<210> 20
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<212> DNA
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<400> 20
ccaaccgcga gaagatga 18
<210> 21
<211> 20
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<400> 21
ccagaggcgt acagggatag 20
<210> 22
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<212> DNA
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tcagggagta atggttggaa t 21
<210> 23
<211> 23
<212> DNA
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<400> 23
ggtctcaaac ataatctggg tca 23
<210> 24
<211> 19
<212> RNA
<213> Artificial Sequence
<220>
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<400> 24
ucaguucccu gaaagacua 19
<210> 25
<211> 19
<212> RNA
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<400> 25
uagucuuuca gggaacuga 19
<210> 26
<211> 19
<212> RNA
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<400> 26
ccaauaaagc uggacaaga 19
<210> 27
<211> 19
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<400> 27
ucuuguccag cuuuauugg 19
<210> 28
<211> 19
<212> RNA
<213> Artificial Sequence
<220>
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<400> 28
caauaaagcu ggacaagaa 19
<210> 29
<211> 19
<212> RNA
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<400> 29
uucuugucca gcuuuauug 19
<210> 30
<211> 19
<212> RNA
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<400> 30
gcuggacaag aagcugcua 19
<210> 31
<211> 19
<212> RNA
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uagcagcuuc uuguccagc 19
<210> 32
<211> 21
<212> RNA
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<220>
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uucuccgaac gugucacgun n 21
<210> 33
<211> 21
<212> RNA
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<400> 33
acgugacacg uucggagaan n 21
<210> 34
<211> 21
<212> RNA
<213> Artificial Sequence
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<220>
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<223> n is dT.
<400> 34
ucaguucccu gaaagacuan n 21
<210> 35
<211> 21
<212> RNA
<213> Artificial Sequence
<220>
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<220>
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<222> (20)..(21)
<223> n is dT.
<400> 35
uagucuuuca gggaacugan n 21
<210> 36
<211> 21
<212> RNA
<213> Artificial Sequence
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<400> 36
ucaguucccu gaaagacuan n 21
<210> 37
<211> 21
<212> RNA
<213> Artificial Sequence
<220>
<223> This sequence is synthesized in lab.
<220>
<221> misc_feature
<222> (20)..(21)
<223> n is dT.
<400> 37
uagucuuuca gggaacugan n 21
<210> 38
<211> 21
<212> RNA
<213> Artificial Sequence
<220>
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<220>
<221> misc_feature
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<400> 38
ucaguucccu gaaagacuan n 21
<210> 39
<211> 21
<212> RNA
<213> Artificial Sequence
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<220>
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<400> 39
uagucuuuca gggaacugan n 21
<210> 40
<211> 21
<212> RNA
<213> Artificial Sequence
<220>
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<220>
<221> misc_feature
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<400> 40
ccaauaaagc uggacaagan n 21
<210> 41
<211> 21
<212> RNA
<213> Artificial Sequence
<220>
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<220>
<221> misc_feature
<222> (20)..(21)
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<400> 41
ucuuguccag cuuuauuggn n 21
<210> 42
<211> 21
<212> RNA
<213> Artificial Sequence
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<220>
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<223> n is dT.
<400> 42
ccaauaaagc uggacaagan n 21
<210> 43
<211> 21
<212> RNA
<213> Artificial Sequence
<220>
<223> This sequence is synthesized in lab.
<220>
<221> misc_feature
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<400> 43
ucuuguccag cuuuauuggn n 21
<210> 44
<211> 21
<212> RNA
<213> Artificial Sequence
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<400> 44
ccaauaaagc uggacaagan n 21
<210> 45
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<400> 45
ucuuguccag cuuuauuggn n 21
<210> 46
<211> 21
<212> RNA
<213> Artificial Sequence
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<400> 46
caauaaagcu ggacaagaan n 21
<210> 47
<211> 21
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uucuugucca gcuuuauugn n 21
<210> 48
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caauaaagcu ggacaagaan n 21
<210> 49
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uucuugucca gcuuuauugn n 21
<210> 50
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caauaaagcu ggacaagaan n 21
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<212> RNA
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uucuugucca gcuuuauugn n 21
<210> 52
<211> 21
<212> RNA
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gcuggacaag aagcugcuan n 21
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uagcagcuuc uuguccagcn n 21
<210> 54
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gcuggacaag aagcugcuan n 21
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uagcagcuuc uuguccagcn n 21
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gcuggacaag aagcugcuan n 21
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Claims (11)

1. The siRNA is a complementary sense strand and antisense strand, wherein the sense strand is a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID NO.24, and the antisense strand is a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID NO. 25; or, the sense strand is a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID NO.26, and the antisense strand is a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID NO. 27; or, the sense strand is a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID NO.28, and the antisense strand is a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID NO. 29; or, the sense strand is a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID NO.30, and the antisense strand is a nucleotide sequence shown as SEQ ID NO. 31;
wherein the content of the first and second substances,
sense strand 5'-UCAGUUCCCUGAAAGACUA-3' (SEQ ID NO.24),
antisense strand 5'-UAGUCUUUCAGGGAACUGA-3' (SEQ ID NO. 25);
sense strand 5'-CCAAUAAAGCUGGACAAGA-3' (SEQ ID NO.26),
antisense strand 5'-UCUUGUCCAGCUUUAUUGG-3' (SEQ ID NO. 27);
sense strand 5'-CAAUAAAGCUGGACAAGAA-3' (SEQ ID NO.28),
antisense strand 5'-UUCUUGUCCAGCUUUAUUG-3' (SEQ ID NO. 29);
sense strand 5'-GCUGGACAAGAAGCUGCUA-3' (SEQ ID NO.30),
antisense strand 5'-UAGCAGCUUCUUGUCCAGC-3' (SEQ ID NO. 31);
the phosphate-sugar skeleton of the siRNA is respectively provided with the following modification groups:
the glycosyl at the 1 st, 2 nd, 5 th, 6 th, 8 th, 9 th, 10 th, 17 th and 18 th positions of the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO.24 of the sense strand of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, the glycosyl at the 2 nd position of the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO.25 of the antisense strand of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, and the glycosyl at the 4 th, 5 th, 7 th, 8 th, 16 th and 17 th positions is 2 ' -fluororibosyl;
alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,
the glycosyl at the 1 st, 2 nd, 6 th, 8 th, 10 th, 17 th and 18 th positions of the nucleotide sequence of the sense strand SEQ ID NO.24 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, the glycosyl at the 2 nd position of the nucleotide sequence of the antisense strand SEQ ID NO.25 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, and the glycosyl at the 9 th and 17 th positions is 2 ' -fluororibosyl;
alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,
the glycosyl at the 1 st, 2 nd, 5 th, 7 th, 9 th, 10 th, 17 th and 18 th positions of the nucleotide sequence of the sense strand SEQ ID NO.24 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, the glycosyl at the 2 nd position of the nucleotide sequence of the antisense strand SEQ ID NO.25 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, and the glycosyl at the 4 th, 6 th, 9 th and 17 th positions is 2 ' -fluororibosyl;
alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,
the glycosyl groups at the 1 st, 2 nd, 5 th, 10 th, 11 th and 15 th positions of the nucleotide sequence of the sense strand SEQ ID NO.26 of the siRNA are 2 ' -methoxy ribosyl, the glycosyl group at the 2 nd position of the nucleotide sequence of the antisense strand SEQ ID NO.27 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxy ribosyl, and the glycosyl groups at the 4 th, 6 th, 8 th, 12 th, 13 th, 16 th and 17 th positions are 2 ' -fluoro ribosyl;
alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,
the glycosyl groups at the 1 st, 2 nd, 5 th, 10 th, 11 th and 15 th positions of the nucleotide sequence of the sense strand SEQ ID NO.26 of the siRNA are 2 ' -methoxy ribosyl, the glycosyl group at the 2 nd position of the nucleotide sequence of the antisense strand SEQ ID NO.27 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxy ribosyl, and the glycosyl groups at the 4 th, 8 th, 14 th and 17 th positions are 2 ' -fluoro ribosyl;
alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,
the glycosyl groups at the 1 st, 2 nd, 5 th, 10 th, 11 th and 15 th positions of the nucleotide sequence of the sense strand SEQ ID NO.26 of the siRNA are 2 ' -methoxyl ribosyl, the glycosyl group at the 2 nd position of the nucleotide sequence of the antisense strand SEQ ID NO.27 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyl ribosyl, and the glycosyl groups at the 4 th, 7 th, 8 th, 13 th and 17 th positions are 2 ' -fluoro ribosyl;
alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,
the glycosyl at the 1 st, 4 th, 9 th, 10 th and 14 th positions of the nucleotide sequence of the sense strand SEQ ID NO.28 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyl ribosyl, the glycosyl at the 2 nd position of the nucleotide sequence of the antisense strand SEQ ID NO.29 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyl ribosyl, and the glycosyl at the 3 rd, 5 th, 7 th, 9 th, 12 th, 13 th, 15 th, 17 th and 18 th positions is 2 ' -fluoro ribosyl;
alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,
the glycosyl at the 1 st, 4 th, 9 th, 10 th and 14 th positions of the nucleotide sequence of the sense strand SEQ ID NO.28 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxy ribosyl, the glycosyl at the 2 nd position of the nucleotide sequence of the antisense strand SEQ ID NO.29 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxy ribosyl, and the glycosyl at the 5 th, 9 th, 15 th and 18 th positions is 2 ' -fluoro ribosyl;
alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,
the glycosyl at the 1 st, 4 th, 9 th, 10 th and 14 th positions of the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO.28 is 2 ' -methoxyl ribosyl, the glycosyl at the 2 nd position of the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO.29 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyl ribosyl, and the glycosyl at the 3 rd, 5 th, 7 th, 8 th, 13 th, 15 th and 18 th positions is 2 ' -fluoro ribosyl;
alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,
the glycosyl at the 1 st, 2 nd, 3 rd, 7 th, 14 th, 15 th, 17 th and 18 th positions of the nucleotide sequence of the sense strand SEQ ID NO.30 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, the glycosyl at the 2 nd position of the nucleotide sequence of the antisense strand SEQ ID NO.31 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, and the glycosyl at the 4 th, 7 th, 8 th, 9 th, 12 th, 15 th and 16 th positions is 2 ' -fluororibosyl;
alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,
the glycosyl at the 1 st, 3 rd, 7 th, 15 th and 18 th positions of the nucleotide sequence of the sense strand SEQ ID NO.30 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxy ribosyl, the glycosyl at the 2 nd position of the nucleotide sequence of the antisense strand SEQ ID NO.31 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxy ribosyl, and the glycosyl at the 4 th, 12 th and 16 th positions is 2 ' -fluoro ribosyl;
alternatively, the first and second electrodes may be,
the glycosyl at the 1 st, 3 rd, 7 th, 14 th, 15 th, 17 th and 18 th positions of the nucleotide sequence of the sense strand SEQ ID NO.30 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, the glycosyl at the 2 nd position of the nucleotide sequence of the antisense strand SEQ ID NO.31 of the siRNA is 2 ' -methoxyribosyl, and the glycosyl at the 4 th, 7 th, 8 th, 12 th and 16 th positions is 2 ' -fluororibosyl;
and, the 3 'ends of the complementary sense and antisense strands are each further linked with a consecutive 2 deoxythymidine nucleotides or uracil nucleotides, thereby forming two 3' overhangs consisting of consecutive 2 deoxythymidine nucleotides or uracil nucleotides upon complementary pairing of the sense and antisense strands.
2. The siRNA according to claim 1, wherein the phosphate group between positions 20 and 21 of the nucleotide sequences of the sense strand and the antisense strand, which are complementary to each other, of the siRNA is a phosphorothioate group in which one oxygen atom in a phosphodiester bond in the phosphate group is replaced with a sulfur atom; the structure of the thiophosphate group is shown as the formula (1):
Figure FDA0002804943090000041
3. a pharmaceutical composition comprising the siRNA of claim 1 or 2 and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier; the weight ratio of the siRNA to the pharmaceutically acceptable carrier is 1: (1-500).
4. The pharmaceutical composition of claim 3, wherein the weight ratio of the siRNA to the pharmaceutically acceptable carrier is 1: (1-50).
5. The pharmaceutical composition of claim 4, wherein the pharmaceutically acceptable carrier comprises an organic amine, a helper lipid, and a pegylated lipid; wherein the organic amine is a compound shown as a formula (2) and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof:
Figure FDA0002804943090000051
wherein:
X1and X2Each independently O, S, N-A or C-A, wherein A is hydrogen or a C1-C20 hydrocarbon chain;
y and Z are each independently C O, C S, S O, CH OH or SO2
R1、R2、R3、R4、R5、R6And R7Each independently is hydrogen, a cyclic or acyclic, substituted or unsubstituted, branched or linear aliphatic group, a cyclic or acyclic, substituted or unsubstituted, branched or linear heteroaliphatic group, a substituted or unsubstituted, branched or linear acyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted, branched or linear aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted, branched or linear heteroaryl group;
x is an integer from 1 to 10;
n is an integer of 1 to 3, m is an integer of 0 to 20, p is 0 or 1; wherein if m ═ p ═ 0, then R2Is hydrogen;
and, if at least one of n or m is 2, then R3And nitrogen in formula (2) forms a compound of formula (3) or formula(4) The structure shown is as follows:
Figure FDA0002804943090000052
wherein g, e and f are each independently an integer of 1 to 6, "HCC" represents a hydrocarbon chain, and each xn represents a nitrogen atom in formula (2).
6. The pharmaceutical composition of claim 5, wherein the organic amine is an organic amine of formula (15) and/or an organic amine of formula (16):
Figure FDA0002804943090000061
the helper lipid is cholesterol, cholesterol analogue and/or cholesterol derivative;
the pegylated lipid is 1, 2-dipalmitoamide-sn-glycerol-3-phosphatidylethanolamine-N- [ methoxy (polyethylene glycol) ] -2000.
7. The pharmaceutical composition according to claim 5 or 6, wherein the molar ratio between the organic amine, the helper lipid and the pegylated lipid is (19.7-80): (19.7-80): (0.3-50).
8. The pharmaceutical composition of claim 7, wherein the molar ratio of the organic amine, the helper lipid, and the pegylated lipid in the pharmaceutical composition is (50-70): (20-40): (3-20).
9. Use of the siRNA of claim 1 or 2 and/or the pharmaceutical composition of any one of claims 3 to 8 for the preparation of a medicament for the prevention and/or treatment of dyslipidemia.
10. The use of claim 9, wherein the dyslipidemia is hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia or atherosclerosis.
11. A kit comprising the siRNA of claim 1 or 2 and/or the pharmaceutical composition of any one of claims 3 to 8.
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