US20130225659A1 - Modulation of nuclear-retained rna - Google Patents

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US20130225659A1 US13/810,879 US201113810879A US2013225659A1 US 20130225659 A1 US20130225659 A1 US 20130225659A1 US 201113810879 A US201113810879 A US 201113810879A US 2013225659 A1 US2013225659 A1 US 2013225659A1
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  • RNAs and RNAs having a long residence time in the nucleus in a tissue having low antisense oligonucleotide uptake are useful, for example, for treating, ameliorating, delaying or reducing a symptom of a disease or disorder in an animal associated with nuclear-retained RNAs and RNAs having a long residence time in the nucleus.
  • Systemic administration of antisense oligonucleotides produces high tissue concentration in liver and renal cortex, and moderate levels in some other tissues such as adipose, spleen and certain inflammatory cells. Uptake of 2′MOE gapmer oligonucleotides in spleen and inflammatory cells is typically 2 to 5-fold less than in the liver. In other tissues, including skeletal, smooth and cardiac muscle, tumor and brain, systemic administration of antisense oligonucleotides results in low to no accumulation of oligonucleotide. The systemic delivery of 2′MOE gapmer oligonucleotides results in skeletal and cardiac muscle concentration that is approximately 50-fold lower than liver.
  • the oligonucleotide distribution is heterogeneous with regard to cell type.
  • glomeruli, distal tubular epithelial cells and lymphocytes demonstrate lower uptake of oligonucleotide compared to other cells in kidney and lymphoid tissue.
  • Pharmacodynamic effects are consistent with biodistribution data.
  • Systemic administration of 2′MOE gapmer oligonucleotides produce modest target inhibition in skeletal or cardiac muscle in WT mice, even when targeting sequences are highly optimized.
  • Crooke S T ed. Antisense Drug Technology: Principles, Strategies and Applications.
  • the nuclear-retained RNA is in a tissue having low antisense oligonucleotide uptake.
  • the methods comprise administering to an animal suspected of having said nuclear-retained RNA a chemically-modified antisense oligonucleotide complementary to said nuclear-retained RNA in an amount effective to activate a nuclear ribonuclease capable of cleaving the nuclear-retained RNA in said pharmacologically relevant amount.
  • the nuclear-retained RNA is associated with a disease or condition in said tissue.
  • an animal is selected as having a disease or condition associated with a nuclear-retained RNA.
  • the methods include selecting an animal having a disease or disorder associated with a nuclear-retained RNA in tissue having low antisense oligonucleotide uptake.
  • the methods include administering to an animal a chemically-modified antisense oligonucleotide complementary to a nuclear-retained RNA in an amount effective to activate a nuclear ribonuclease capable of cleaving the nuclear-retained RNA in a pharmacologically relevant amount.
  • the tissue is skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, smooth muscle, adipose, spleen, bone, intestine, adrenal, testes, ovary, pancreas, pituitary, prostate, skin, uterus, bladder, tumor and brain.
  • the cell type is cells of the glomeruli, distal tubular epithelial cells and lymphocytes.
  • the administering results in a systemic effect of the oligonucleotide (an effect in more than one tissue).
  • the administering is subcutaneous, intravenous, intracerebral, intracerebroventricular, intrathecal or another administration that result in a systemic effect of the oligonucleotide (an effect in more than one tissue) or delivery to the CNS or to the CSF.
  • Certain embodiments provide the use of any chemically-modified antisense oligonucleotide as described herein in the manufacture of a medicament for use in any of the therapeutic methods described herein.
  • Certain embodiments provide any chemically-modified antisense oligonucleotide as described herein, for use in any of the therapeutic methods described herein.
  • 2′-O-methoxyethyl refers to an O-methoxy-ethyl modification of the 2′ position of a furosyl ring.
  • a 2′-O-methoxyethyl modified sugar is a modified sugar.
  • “2′-O-methoxyethyl nucleotide” means a nucleotide comprising a 2′-O-methoxyethyl modified sugar moiety.
  • 5-methylcytosine means a cytosine modified with a methyl group attached to the 5′ position.
  • a 5-methylcytosine is a modified nucleobase.
  • Active pharmaceutical agent means the substance or substances in a pharmaceutical composition that provide a therapeutic benefit when administered to an individual.
  • an antisense oligonucleotide targeted to a nrRNA is an active pharmaceutical agent.
  • Active target region or “target region” means a region to which one or more active antisense compounds is targeted.
  • Active antisense compounds means antisense compounds that reduce target nucleic acid levels or protein levels.
  • administering refers to the co-administration of two agents in any manner in which the pharmacological effects of both are manifest in the patient at the same time. Concomitant administration does not require that both agents be administered in a single pharmaceutical composition, in the same dosage form, or by the same route of administration. The effects of both agents need not manifest themselves at the same time. The effects need only be overlapping for a period of time and need not be coextensive.
  • administering means providing an agent to an animal, and includes, but is not limited to, administering by a medical professional and self-administering.
  • Agent means an active substance that can provide a therapeutic benefit when administered to an animal.
  • First Agent means a therapeutic compound of the invention.
  • a first agent can be an antisense oligonucleotide targeting a nrRNA.
  • second therapeutic compound of the invention e.g. a second antisense oligonucleotide targeting a nrRNA
  • non-a nrRNA therapeutic compound e.g. a second antisense oligonucleotide targeting a nrRNA
  • “Amelioration” refers to a lessening of at least one indicator, sign, or symptom of an associated disease, disorder, or condition.
  • the severity of indicators can be determined by animalive or objective measures, which are known to those skilled in the art.
  • Animal refers to a human or non-human animal, including, but not limited to, mice, rats, rabbits, dogs, cats, pigs, and non-human primates, including, but not limited to, monkeys and chimpanzees.
  • Antisense activity means any detectable or measurable activity attributable to the hybridization of an antisense compound to its target nucleic acid. In certain embodiments, antisense activity is a decrease in the amount or expression of a target nucleic acid or protein encoded by such target nucleic acid.
  • Antisense compound means an oligomeric compound that is capable of undergoing hybridization to a target nucleic acid through hydrogen bonding.
  • Antisense inhibition means reduction of target nucleic acid levels or target protein levels in the presence of an antisense compound complementary to a target nucleic acid compared to target nucleic acid levels or target protein levels in the absence of the antisense compound.
  • Antisense oligonucleotide means a single-stranded oligonucleotide having a nucleobase sequence that permits hybridization to a corresponding region or segment of a target nucleic acid.
  • Bicyclic sugar means a furosyl ring modified by the bridging of two non-geminal ring atoms.
  • a bicyclic sugar is a modified sugar.
  • BNA Bicyclic nucleic acid
  • Cap structure or “terminal cap moiety” means chemical modifications, which have been incorporated at either terminus of an antisense compound.
  • “Chemically distinct region” refers to a region of an antisense compound that is in some way chemically different than another region of the same antisense compound. For example, a region having 2′-O-methoxyethyl nucleotides is chemically distinct from a region having nucleotides without 2′-O-methoxyethyl modifications.
  • Chimeric antisense compound means an antisense compound that has at least two chemically distinct regions.
  • Co-administration means administration of two or more agents to an individual.
  • the two or more agents can be in a single pharmaceutical composition, or can be in separate pharmaceutical compositions.
  • Each of the two or more agents can be administered through the same or different routes of administration.
  • Co-administration encompasses parallel or sequential administration.
  • “Complementarity” means the capacity for pairing between nucleobases of a first nucleic acid and a second nucleic acid.
  • Contiguous nucleobases means nucleobases immediately adjacent to each other.
  • “Diluent” means an ingredient in a composition that lacks pharmacological activity, but is pharmaceutically necessary or desirable.
  • the diluent in an injected composition can be a liquid, e.g. saline solution.
  • Dose means a specified quantity of a pharmaceutical agent provided in a single administration, or in a specified time period.
  • a dose can be administered in one, two, or more boluses, tablets, or injections.
  • the desired dose requires a volume not easily accommodated by a single injection, therefore, two or more injections can be used to achieve the desired dose.
  • the pharmaceutical agent is administered by infusion over an extended period of time or continuously. Doses can be stated as the amount of pharmaceutical agent per hour, day, week, or month.
  • Effective amount or “therapeutically effective amount” means the amount of active pharmaceutical agent sufficient to effectuate a desired physiological outcome in an individual in need of the agent.
  • the effective amount can vary among individuals depending on the health and physical condition of the individual to be treated, the taxonomic group of the individuals to be treated, the formulation of the composition, assessment of the individual's medical condition, and other relevant factors.
  • “Fully complementary” or “100% complementary” means each nucleobase of a nucleobase sequence of a first nucleic acid has a complementary nucleobase in a second nucleobase sequence of a second nucleic acid.
  • a first nucleic acid is an antisense compound and a target nucleic acid is a second nucleic acid.
  • “Gapmer” means a chimeric antisense compound in which an internal region having a plurality of nucleosides that support RNase H cleavage is positioned between external regions having one or more nucleosides, wherein the nucleosides comprising the internal region are chemically distinct from the nucleoside or nucleosides comprising the external regions.
  • the internal region can be referred to as a “gap segment” and the external regions can be referred to as “wing segments.”
  • Gap-widened means a chimeric antisense compound having a gap segment of 12 or more contiguous 2′-deoxyribonucleosides positioned between and immediately adjacent to 5′ and 3′ wing segments having from one to six nucleosides.
  • Hybridization means the annealing of complementary nucleic acid molecules.
  • complementary nucleic acid molecules include an antisense compound and a target nucleic acid.
  • Identifying an animal with a disease or condition associated with a nuclear-retained RNA means identifying an animal having been diagnosed with a disease or condition associated with a nuclear-retained RNA, disorder or condition or identifying an animal predisposed to develop a disease or condition associated with a nuclear-retained RNA, disorder or condition. For example, individuals with a familial history can be predisposed to a disease or condition associated with a nuclear-retained RNA, disorder or condition. Such identification can be accomplished by any method including evaluating an individual's medical history and standard clinical tests or assessments.
  • “Individual” means a human or non-human animal selected for treatment or therapy.
  • Internucleoside linkage refers to the chemical bond between nucleosides.
  • Linked nucleosides means adjacent nucleosides which are bonded together.
  • Low uptake or “resistant to uptake” means a cell or tissue that demonstrate low or reduced uptake of oligonucleotide or for which distribution or concentration of oligonucleotide is known to be low.
  • a cell or tissue that has low uptake or is resistant to uptake of oligonucleotide has an oligonucleotide concentration after systemic administration that is at least 5-fold, 6-fold, 7-fold, 8-fold, 9-fold, 10-fold, 15-fold, 20-fold, 30-fold, 40-fold, 50-fold or 100-fold lower than liver or kidney concentration.
  • a cell or tissue that has low uptake or is resistant to uptake of oligonucleotide demonstrates no measurable pharmacologically relevant effect upon systemic administration of an oligonucleotide targeting a non-stable (having low half-life or residence in nucleus) or non-nuclear-retained target.
  • mismatch or “non-complementary nucleobase” refers to the case when a nucleobase of a first nucleic acid is not capable of pairing with the corresponding nucleobase of a second or target nucleic acid.
  • Modified internucleoside linkage refers to a substitution or any change from a naturally occurring internucleoside bond (i.e. a phosphodiester internucleoside bond).
  • Modified nucleobase refers to any nucleobase other than adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymidine, or uracil.
  • An “unmodified nucleobase” means the purine bases adenine (A) and guanine (G), and the pyrimidine bases thymine (T), cytosine (C), and uracil (U).
  • Modified nucleotide means a nucleotide having, independently, a modified sugar moiety, modified internucleoside linkage, or modified nucleobase.
  • a “modified nucleoside” means a nucleoside having, independently, a modified sugar moiety or modified nucleobase.
  • Modified oligonucleotide means an oligonucleotide comprising at least one modified nucleotide.
  • Modified sugar refers to a substitution or change from a natural sugar.
  • Microtif means the pattern of chemically distinct regions in an antisense compound.
  • “Naturally occurring internucleoside linkage” means a 3′ to 5′ phosphodiester linkage.
  • Natural sugar moiety means a sugar found in DNA (2′-H) or RNA (2′-OH).
  • Non-coding RNA or “ncRNA” means a functional RNA molecule that is not translated into a protein.
  • Non-coding RNA includes highly abundant and functionally important RNAs such as transfer RNA (tRNA) and ribosomal RNA (rRNA), as well as RNAs such as small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs), microRNAs, siRNAs and piRNAs and the long ncRNAs (or large ncRNAs).
  • tRNA transfer RNA
  • rRNA ribosomal RNA
  • RNAs small nucleolar RNAs
  • microRNAs microRNAs
  • siRNAs and piRNAs or large ncRNAs
  • Long ncRNAs are generally considered to be non-protein coding transcripts longer than about 200 nucleotides and have been shown to play roles in regulation of gene transcription, post-transcriptional regulation and epigenetic regulation (see, e.g., Guttman, M. et al., Nature., 2009, 458, 22
  • Nuclear-retained RNA means RNA that is enriched or is stable in the nucleus.
  • Nuclear-retained RNAs include, but are not limited to, non-coding RNA including long ncRNA such as lincRNA, repeat element containing RNA and expanded nucleotide repeat-containing RNA, small non-coding RNA (snRNA) including snoRNA and scaRNA (enrRNA) as described herein.
  • a nrRNA is an RNA that resides only in the nucleus or is an RNA that pass briefly through the cytoplasm during maturation (export to the cytoplasm followed by import back to the nucleus) like some functional RNAs or can be an RNA that has a long residence time in the nucleus (for example, an RNA having a long half-life) but is exported to the cytoplasm after a period of time or certain event, such as, but not limited to, cleavage of a repeat element (e.g., Alu repeat element) in response to a stimulus (e.g., stress).
  • the nuclear-retained RNA is retained within a suborganell within the nucleus.
  • nuclear retained RNAs include Xlsirt, Satellite III, Hox C5 transcript variant 2 (non-coding), Men ⁇ , Neat1, Neat2, hsr-omega, hothead, Kit, Xist, Air, Tsix, Mirg, Kcnq1ot1, AK045070, P-rex1, ZNF127AS, NESPAS, SRG1, Hotair, Gomafu, Sox2ot, Rian, CAT2, Xite, Jpx, Ftx, RoX1, RoX2, H19, Igf2, IPW, UBE3A, ATP10C, pgc, 7SK, RNA Pol II transcription elongation factor P-TEFb, B2, HSR-1, BC1, BC200, NRSE, NRON, NFAT transcription factor, Makorin-p1, HAR1F, HAR1R, OCC1, DD3/PCA3, PCGEM1, NCRMS, HIS-1, BCMS, CMPD, NC612,
  • Nuclear ribonuclease mean a ribonuclease found in the nucleus.
  • Nuclear ribonucleases include, but are not limited to, RNase H including RNase H1 and RNase H2, the double stranded RNase drosha and other double stranded RNases.
  • Nucleic acid refers to molecules composed of monomeric nucleotides.
  • a nucleic acid includes ribonucleic acids (RNA), deoxyribonucleic acids (DNA), single-stranded nucleic acids, double-stranded nucleic acids, small interfering ribonucleic acids (siRNA), and microRNAs (miRNA).
  • RNA ribonucleic acids
  • DNA deoxyribonucleic acids
  • siRNA small interfering ribonucleic acids
  • miRNA microRNAs
  • Nucleobase means a heterocyclic moiety capable of pairing with a base of another nucleic acid.
  • Nucleobase sequence means the order of contiguous nucleobases independent of any sugar, linkage, or nucleobase modification.
  • Nucleoside means a nucleobase linked to a sugar.
  • Nucleoside mimetic includes those structures used to replace the sugar or the sugar and the base and not necessarily the linkage at one or more positions of an oligomeric compound such as for example nucleoside mimetics having morpholino, cyclohexenyl, cyclohexyl, tetrahydropyranyl, bicyclo or tricyclo sugar mimetics e.g. non furanose sugar units.
  • Nucleotide means a nucleoside having a phosphate group covalently linked to the sugar portion of the nucleoside.
  • Nucleotide mimetic includes those structures used to replace the nucleoside and the linkage at one or more positions of an oligomeric compound such as for example peptide nucleic acids or morpholinos (morpholinos linked by —N(H)—C( ⁇ O)—O— or other non-phosphodiester linkage).
  • “Expanded Nucleotide repeat-containing RNA” means a mutant RNA molecule that contains a sequence of nucleotides comprising an expanded repeat element wherein a triplet or quartet of nucleotides is repeated consecutively several times within said sequence in greater number than normal affecting the normal processing of said RNA (see, e.g., Cooper, T. Cell., 2009, 136, 777-793; O'Rourke, J. R., J. Biol. Chem., 2009, 284 (12), 7419-7423).
  • Oligomer means a polymer of linked monomeric subunits which is capable of hybridizing to at least a region of a nucleic acid molecule.
  • Oligonucleotide means a polymer of linked nucleosides each of which can be modified or unmodified, independent one from another.
  • Parenteral administration means administration through injection or infusion.
  • Parenteral administration includes subcutaneous administration, intravenous administration, intramuscular administration, intraarterial administration, intraperitoneal administration, or intracranial administration, e.g. intrathecal or intracerebroventricular administration. Administration can be continuous, or chronic, or short or intermittent.
  • Peptide means a molecule formed by linking at least two amino acids by amide bonds. Peptide refers to polypeptides and proteins.
  • “Pharmaceutical composition” means a mixture of substances suitable for administering to an individual.
  • a pharmaceutical composition can comprise one or more active agents and a sterile aqueous solution.
  • “Pharmaceutically acceptable dose” means a dose which can provide a pharmacologically relevant reduction of target and is well tolerated, having minimal, little or no toxicity.
  • “Pharmaceutically acceptable salts” means physiologically and pharmaceutically acceptable salts of antisense compounds, i.e., salts that retain the desired biological activity of the parent oligonucleotide and do not impart undesired toxicological effects thereto.
  • “Pharmacologically relevant reduction” means a reduction of an RNA that provides a pharmacological result.
  • the pharmacological result can be, for example, amelioration of a disease or condition or a symptom of such disease or condition.
  • Phosphorothioate linkage means a linkage between nucleosides where the phosphodiester bond is modified by replacing one of the non-bridging oxygen atoms with a sulfur atom.
  • a phosphorothioate linkage is a modified internucleoside linkage.
  • “Portion” means a defined number of contiguous (i.e. linked) nucleobases of a nucleic acid. In certain embodiments, a portion is a defined number of contiguous nucleobases of a target nucleic acid. In certain embodiments, a portion is a defined number of contiguous nucleobases of an antisense compound.
  • Prevent refers to delaying or forestalling the onset or development of a disease, disorder, or condition for a period of time from minutes to indefinitely. Prevent also means reducing risk of developing a disease, disorder, or condition.
  • Prodrug means a therapeutic agent that is prepared in an inactive form that is converted to an active form within the body or cells thereof by the action of endogenous enzymes or other chemicals or conditions.
  • “Side effects” means physiological responses attributable to a treatment other than the desired effects.
  • side effects include injection site reactions, liver function test abnormalities, renal function abnormalities, liver toxicity, renal toxicity, central nervous system abnormalities, myopathies, and malaise.
  • increased aminotransferase levels in serum can indicate liver toxicity or liver function abnormality.
  • increased bilirubin can indicate liver toxicity or liver function abnormality.
  • Single-stranded oligonucleotide means an oligonucleotide which is not hybridized to a complementary strand.
  • Specifically hybridizable refers to an antisense compound having a sufficient degree of complementarity between an antisense oligonucleotide and a target nucleic acid to induce a desired effect, while exhibiting minimal or no effects on non-target nucleic acids under conditions in which specific binding is desired, i.e. under physiological conditions in the case of in vivo assays and therapeutic treatments.
  • “Stable RNA” means RNA with a long half-life or vary low turnover. In certain embodiments, a stable RNA has a half-life of at least 5 hours, 6 hours, 7 hours, 8 hours, 9 hours, 10 hours, 12 hours, 15 hours, 20 hours, 24 hours or greater than 24 hours. In certain embodiments, half-life is demonstrated by in vitro assays with RNA synthesis inhibitors such as actinomycin D or DRB (see Examples).
  • Subcutaneous administration means administration just below the skin.
  • “Sugar surrogate” overlaps with the slightly broader term “nucleoside mimetic” but is intended to indicate replacement of the sugar unit (furanose ring) only.
  • the tetrahydropyranyl rings provided herein are illustrative of an example of a sugar surrogate wherein the furanose sugar group has been replaced with a tetrahydropyranyl ring system.
  • Targeting or “targeted” means the process of design and selection of an antisense compound that will specifically hybridize to a target nucleic acid and induce a desired effect.
  • Target nucleic acid “Target nucleic acid,” “target RNA,” and “target RNA transcript” all refer to a nucleic acid capable of being targeted by antisense compounds.
  • Target segment means the sequence of nucleotides of a target nucleic acid to which an antisense compound is targeted.
  • 5′ target site refers to the 5′-most nucleotide of a target segment.
  • 3′ target site refers to the 3′-most nucleotide of a target segment.
  • “Therapeutically effective amount” means an amount of an agent that provides a therapeutic benefit to an individual.
  • Treat refers to administering a pharmaceutical composition to effect an alteration or improvement of a disease, disorder, or condition.
  • Unmodified nucleotide means a nucleotide composed of naturally occurring nucleobases, sugar moieties, and internucleoside linkages.
  • an unmodified nucleotide is an RNA nucleotide (i.e. ⁇ -D-ribonucleosides) or a DNA nucleotide (i.e. ⁇ -D-deoxyribonucleoside).
  • Certain embodiments provide methods, compounds, and compositions for inhibiting a nuclear-retained RNA (nrRNA).
  • nrRNA nuclear-retained RNA
  • Certain embodiments provide a method of reducing a nrRNA in an animal including administering to the animal a compound comprising a modified antisense oligonucleotide targeted to the nrRNA.
  • the nrRNA is any of those provided herein, for example, any one of the targets listed in Table 1 or Table 2.
  • the nrRNA targeted and inhibited using the methods of the invention is a nrRNA selected from Xlsirt, Satellite III, Hox C5 transcript variant 2 (non-coding), Men ⁇ , Neat1, Neat2, hsr-omega, hothead, Kit, Xist, Air, Tsix, Mirg, Kcnq1ot1, AK045070, P-rex1, ZNF127AS, NESPAS, SRG1, Hotair, Gomafu, Sox2ot, Rian, CAT2, Xite, Jpx, Ftx, RoX1, RoX2, H19, Igf2, IPW, UBE3A, ATP10C, pgc, 7SK, RNA Pol II transcription elongation factor P-TEFb, B2, HSR-1, BC1, BC200, NRSE, NRON, NFAT transcription factor, Makorin-p1, HAR1F, HAR1R, OCC1, DD3/PCA3,
  • the nrRNA targeted and inhibited using the methods of the invention is a nrRNA selected from NEAT2 (aka MALAT1), DMPK, U16, and U 50.
  • NEAT2 aka MALAT1
  • DMPK DMPK
  • U16 DMPK
  • U 50 a nrRNA selected from NEAT2 (aka MALAT1), DMPK, U16, and U 50.
  • Certain embodiments provide a method of treating, ameliorating, delaying or reducing a symptom of a disease or disorder associated with a nuclear-retained RNA as described herein in an animal comprising administering to the animal a compound comprising a modified antisense oligonucleotide targeted to a nrRNA as described herein, wherein the modified oligonucleotide reduces a nrRNA in the animal, thereby treating, ameliorating, delaying or reducing a symptom of a disease or disorder associated with a nuclear-retained RNA in the animal.
  • Certain embodiments provide a method for treating an animal with a disease or condition associated with a nuclear-retained RNA including identifying said animal with a disease or condition associated with a nuclear-retained RNA, and administering to said animal a therapeutically effective amount of a compound comprising a modified oligonucleotide targeted to a nrRNA.
  • the therapeutically effective amount of the compound administered to the animal treats, ameliorates, delays or reduces a symptom of a disease or disorder associated with a nuclear-retained RNA in the animal.
  • Certain embodiments provide a method of reducing a nrRNA comprising administering to an animal a compound comprising a modified oligonucleotide consisting of 10 to 30 linked nucleosides and having a nucleobase sequence at least 90% complementary to any one of the nrRNA sequences as described herein as measured over the entirety of said modified oligonucleotide.
  • the reduction in a nrRNA treats, ameliorates, delays or reduces a symptom of a disease or disorder associated with a nuclear-retained RNA in the animal.
  • Certain embodiments provide a method for treating, ameliorating, delaying or reducing a symptom of a disease or condition associated with a nuclear-retained RNA.
  • the method includes identifying an animal with a disease or condition associated with a nuclear-retained RNA, and administering to the animal a modified antisense oligonucleotide complementary to said nuclear-retained RNA in an amount effective to activate a nuclear ribonuclease in a tissue resistant to or having low uptake of oligonucleotide.
  • the nuclear ribonuclease is capable of cleaving the nuclear-retained RNA by recognizing the antisense oligonucleotide/nrRNA duplex.
  • the nuclear ribonuclease is RNase H1, RNase H2 or drosha.
  • the amount of oligonucleotide is effective to reduce the nuclear-retained RNA by a pharmacologically relevant amount.
  • the pharmacologically relevant reduction of nuclear-retained RNA treats, ameliorates, delays or reduces a symptom of a disease or disorder associated with a nuclear-retained RNA in the animal.
  • Certain embodiments provide a method of achieving a pharmacologically relevant reduction of a nuclear-retained RNA in a tissue having low antisense oligonucleotide uptake, comprising administering to an animal having or suspected of having the nuclear-retained RNA a modified antisense oligonucleotide targeted to or complementary to said nuclear-retained RNA in an amount effective to activate a nuclear ribonuclease capable of cleaving the nuclear-retained RNA in by a pharmacologically relevant amount.
  • the nuclear-retained RNA is associated with a disease or condition in a tissue that has or demonstrates low oligonucleotide uptake or is resistant to oligonucleotide uptake and the animal is selected as having the associated disease or condition.
  • the nuclear-retained RNA is a stable RNA.
  • Certain embodiments provide a method of treating, ameliorating, delaying or reducing a symptom of a disease or disorder associated with a nuclear-retained RNA in a tissue having low antisense oligonucleotide uptake, which includes selecting an animal having a disease or disorder associated with the nuclear-retained RNA in the tissue; and administering to the animal a modified antisense oligonucleotide targeted to or complementary to said nuclear-retained RNA in an amount effective to activate a nuclear ribonuclease capable of cleaving the nuclear-retained RNA in a pharmacologically relevant amount, thereby treating, ameliorating, delaying or reducing a symptom of the disease or disorder.
  • the nuclear-retained RNA is a stable RNA.
  • the animal has a disease selected from Huntington's diseases, Huntington's disease-like 2, myotonic dystrophy (including DM1 and DM2), fragile X-associated tremor ataxia syndrome, Fragile XE mental retardation, spinocerebellar ataxias (including those listed in Table 2), Friedrich's ataxia, premature ovarian insufficiency, spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy, Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (Kennedy's disease) or dentarubral pallidoluysian atrophy (Haw river syndrome).
  • Huntington's diseases Huntington's diseases-like 2, myotonic dystrophy (including DM1 and DM2)
  • fragile X-associated tremor ataxia syndrome including those listed in Table 2
  • spinocerebellar ataxias including those listed in Table 2
  • Friedrich's ataxia premature ovarian insufficiency
  • spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy
  • the tissue is skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, smooth muscle, adipose, spleen, bone, intestine, adrenal, testes, ovary, pancreas, pituitary, prostate, skin, uterus, bladder, tumor and brain.
  • the cell type is cells of the glomeruli, distal tubular epithelial cells and lymphocytes. In certain embodiments, the cell type is a malignant cell including, but not limited to, breast, lung, colon and prostate cancer cells.
  • the administering results in a systemic effect of the oligonucleotide (an effect in more than one tissue).
  • the administering is subcutaneous, intravenous, intracerebral, intracerebroventricular, intrathecal or another administration that result in a systemic effect of the oligonucleotide (an effect in more than one tissue) or delivery to the CNS or to the CSF.
  • the nrRNA is a nucleotide repeat-containing RNA comprising at least one repeat region and at least one non-repeat region.
  • the repeat region of said nucleotide repeat-containing RNA comprises a repeat sequence selected from CAG, GCG, CUG, GCC, GCC, CGG, GAA, CAA, CCUG, or AUUCU.
  • the repeat sequence is expanded. In certain embodiments, the repeat sequence repeats more than about 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 100, 250, 500, 1000, 1500, 2000 times (or any range defined by any two of these values) within the repeat region.
  • the oligonucleotide targets a non-coding sequence within a non-repeat region of the nucleotide repeat-containing RNA. In certain embodiments, the oligonucleotide targets a coding region, an intron, a 5′UTR, or a 3′UTR of the nucleotide repeat-containing RNA.
  • the nrRNA is a non-coding RNA.
  • the nrRNA is a long ncRNA or lincRNA.
  • the nrRNA is a mutant RNA. In certain embodiments, the mutant RNA is preferentially lowered compared to wild-type.
  • the nrRNA is a stable RNA. In certain embodiments, the nrRNA has a half-life of at least 5 hours, 10 hours, 15 hours, 20 hours, 24 hours, greater than 24 hours, 25 hours or greater than 25 hours.
  • the oligonucleotide is chimeric. In certain embodiments the oligonucleotide is a gapmer.
  • the oligonucleotide consists of 10 to 30 linked nucleosides.
  • the oligonucleotide has a nucleobase sequence at least 90% complementary to the nrRNA as measured over the entirety of said modified oligonucleotide. In certain embodiments, the nucleobase sequence of the modified oligonucleotide is at least 95% complementary to any one of the nrRNAs as described herein, as measured over the entirety of said modified oligonucleotide. In certain embodiments, the nucleobase sequence of the modified oligonucleotide is 100% complementary to any one of the nrRNAs as descrived herein, as measured over the entirety of said modified oligonucleotide.
  • At least one internucleoside linkage of said modified oligonucleotide is a modified internucleoside linkage.
  • each internucleoside linkage is a phosphorothioate internucleoside linkage.
  • At least one nucleoside of said modified oligonucleotide comprises a modified sugar.
  • at least one modified sugar is a bicyclic sugar.
  • at least one modified sugar comprises a 2′-O-methoxyethyl or a 4′-[C(R a )(R b )] n —O-2′ bridge, wherein Ra and Rb are independently H, alkyl or substituted alkyl.
  • Ra and Rb are each H.
  • Ra is an alkyl and Rb is H.
  • Ra is CH3 and Rb is H.
  • the modified sugar comprises a 4′-(CH 2 ) n —O-2′ bridge, wherein n is 1 or 2.
  • At least one nucleoside of said modified oligonucleotide comprises a modified nucleobase.
  • the modified nucleobase is a 5-methylcytosine.
  • the modified oligonucleotide comprises: a) a gap segment consisting of linked deoxynucleosides; b) a 5′ wing segment consisting of linked nucleosides; and c) a 3′ wing segment consisting of linked nucleosides.
  • the gap segment is positioned between the 5′ wing segment and the 3′ wing segment and each nucleoside of each wing segment comprises a modified sugar.
  • the modified oligonucleotide comprises: a) a gap segment consisting of ten linked deoxynucleosides; b) a 5′ wing segment consisting of five linked nucleosides; and c) a 3′ wing segment consisting of five linked nucleosides.
  • the gap segment is positioned between the 5′ wing segment and the 3′ wing segment, each nucleoside of each wing segment comprises a 2′-O-methoxyethyl sugar, each internucleoside linkage of said modified oligonucleotide is a phosphorothioate linkage, and each cytosine in said modified oligonucleotide is a 5′-methylcytosine.
  • the modified oligonucleotide consists of 20 linked nucleosides.
  • Certain embodiments provide a method of treating, ameliorating, delaying or reducing a symptom of a disease or disorder associated with a nuclear-retained RNA in an animal comprising administering to the animal a compound comprising a modified oligonucleotide which reduces a nrRNA, wherein the modified oligonucleotide comprises: a) a gap segment consisting of ten linked deoxynucleosides; b) a 5′ wing segment consisting of five linked nucleosides; and c) a 3′ wing segment consisting of five linked nucleosides.
  • each nucleoside of each wing segment comprises a 2′-O-methoxyethyl sugar
  • each internucleoside linkage of said modified oligonucleotide is a phosphorothioate linkage
  • each cytosine in said modified oligonucleotide is a 5′-methylcytosine and said reduction of a nrRNA treats, ameliorates, delays or reduces a symptom of a disease or disorder associated with a nuclear-retained RNA in the animal.
  • Certain embodiments provide the use of a compound as described herein in the manufacture of a medicament for treating, ameliorating, or preventing a disease or condition associated with a nuclear-retained RNA.
  • the modified oligonucleotide is designated as a first agent and the methods of the invention further comprise administering a second agent.
  • the first agent and the second agent are co-administered.
  • the first agent and the second agent are co-administered sequentially or concomitantly.
  • kits for treating, preventing, or ameliorating a disease or condition associated with a nuclear-retained RNA as described herein wherein the kit comprises a compound as described herein; and optionally an additional agent or therapy as described herein.
  • the kit can further include instructions or a label for using the kit to treat, prevent, or ameliorate a disease or condition associated with a nuclear-retained RNA.
  • Certain embodiments provide use of a modified antisense oligonucleotide as described herein for treatment of a disease associated with a nuclear-retained RNA in a tissue having low antisense oligonucleotide uptake.
  • the use if for subcutaneous, intravenous, intracerebral, intracerebroventricular or intrathecal treatment or treatment of the CNS or the CSF.
  • Certain embodiments provide the use of any chemically-modified antisense oligonucleotide as described herein in the manufacture of a medicament for use in any of the therapeutic methods described herein.
  • Certain embodiments provide any chemically-modified antisense oligonucleotide as described herein, for use in any of the therapeutic methods described herein.
  • Certain embodiments provide a compound comprising a modified oligonucleotide consisting of 12 to 30 linked nucleosides having a nucleobase sequence comprising at least 12 contiguous nucleobases of any of the nucleobase sequences of 92-110, 150-160, and 171-175.
  • the modified oligonucleotide has a nucleobase sequence comprising at least 8, at least 9, at least 10, or at least 11 contiguous nucleobases of any of the nucleobase sequences of 92-110, 150-160, and 171-175.
  • the modified oligonucleotide has a nucleobase sequence comprising at least 13, at least 14, at least 15, at least 16, at least 17, at least 18, or at least 19, contiguous nucleobases of any of the nucleobase sequences of 92-110, 150-160, and 171-175.
  • the modified oligonucleotide is a single-stranded oligonucleotide.
  • the nucleobase sequence of the modified oligonucleotide is 100% complementary to SEQ ID NOs: 1, 177, and 198.
  • At least one internucleoside linkage is a modified internucleoside linkage.
  • each internucleoside linkage is a phosphorothioate internucleoside linkage.
  • At least one nucleoside comprises a modified sugar.
  • At least one modified sugar is a bicyclic sugar.
  • At least one modified sugar comprises a 2′-O-methoxyethyl.
  • At least one nucleoside comprises a modified nucleobase.
  • the modified nucleobase is a 5-methylcytosine.
  • the modified oligonucleotide comprises:
  • a 5′ wing segment consisting of linked nucleosides
  • a 3′ wing segment consisting of linked nucleosides
  • each nucleoside of each wing segment comprises a modified sugar
  • the modified oligonucleotide comprises:
  • a 5′ wing segment consisting of five linked nucleosides
  • a 3′ wing segment consisting of five linked nucleosides
  • each nucleoside of each wing segment comprises a 2′-O-methoxyethyl sugar; and wherein each internucleoside linkage is a phosphorothioate linkage.
  • the modified oligonucleotide consists of 14 linked nucleosides.
  • the modified oligonucleotide consists of 16 linked nucleosides.
  • the modified oligonucleotide consists of 20 linked nucleosides.
  • Certain embodiments provide a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound as described herein.
  • Eukaryotic nuclei have a dynamic structural organization with several nuclear compartments and structures. The most prominent structure is the nucleolus, a non-membrane structure in which ribosomal RNA is transcribed and processed (Thiry, M. and Lanfontaine, D. L. J. Trends Cell Biol. 2005. 15: 194-199). Chromatin domains are also important structures which house the genomic DNA of the cell and regulate its expression (Cremer, T. et al., Crit. Rev. Eukaryotic Gene Expr. 2000. 10: 179-212).
  • the nucleus also contains speckles, or clusters of granules, of which interchromatin granules (ICGs) form a well-known class (Spector, D. L. et al., EMBO J. 1991. 10: 2467-3481), and which are the storage centres for various snRNAs, snRNPs (small nuclear RNA binding proteins), and RNA polymerase II (Fu, X. Y. and Maniatis, T. Nature. 1990. 343: 437-441). Many of the larger speckles correspond to interchromatin granule clusters (IGCs). These clusters measure 0.8-1.8 ⁇ m in diameter and are composed of 20-25-nm diameter particles that appear connected in places. IGCs have been proposed to be involved in the assembly and/or modification of pre-mRNA splicing factors.
  • ICGs interchromatin granules
  • Nuclear splicing speckles or interchromatin granule clusters also contain nuclear retained RNAs (Thiry, M. Eur. J. Cell. Biol. 1993. 62: 259-269). Certain nuclear retained RNAs remain in the nucleus for the duration of their life, and some of these may be released to the cytoplasm in response to certain signals, such as cellular stress. RNA is retained in the nucleus as a consequence of its editing by RNA adenosine deaminases and formation of large RNP complexes. Paraspeckles (PSs) are discrete nuclear bodies (Fox, A. H. et al., Mol. Biol. Cell 2005.
  • SNBs stress nuclear bodies
  • SNBs Similar to PSs are the formation of stress nuclear bodies (SNBs), which similarly takes place at specific transcription sites around satellite repeat transcripts (Denegri, M. et al., Mol. Biol. Cell 2002. 13: 2069-2079; Jolly, C. et al., J. Cell Biol. 2002. 156: 775-781; Rizzi, N. et al., Mol. Cell Biol. 2004. 15: 543-551). SNBs are associated with factors in the regulation of RNA transcription and processing, though their actual role has not yet been elucidated.
  • PCFs perichromatin fibrils
  • CBs may represent domains that snRNPs would enter for maturation/recycling and leave to eventually integrate other functional domains, such as the splicing speckles or active transcriptional units.
  • PNC perinuclear compartment
  • PML promyelocytic leukemia protein
  • the nrRNA targeted in the methods described herein is contained in one of the subnuclear structures described herein, including, but not limited to, nucleoli, Cajal bodies, speckles, paraspeckles, stress nuclear bodies, perichromatin fibrils and perinuclear compartments.
  • the nrRNA targeted in the methods described herein is associated with a ribonuclear protein or RNP complex.
  • the cell nucleus is a highly organized structure.
  • Specific proteins and nucleic acids are enriched in subnuclear structures such as nucleoli, Cajal bodies, paraspeckles, and nuclear speckles (Platini and Lamond, 2004). Many of these structures are involved in control of gene expression through retention of RNA.
  • the mechanism of nuclear retention is thought to be mediated by a number of structural features of RNA. For example, inosine-containing RNAs (or RNAs that undergo adenosine to inosine hyper editing) as well as RNAs with extended 3′UTRs and RNAs with inverted repeat elements, such as Alu elements, have been linked with nuclear retention (Bond and Fox 2009).
  • RNAs with inverted repeats elements such as Alu repeats
  • inverted repeats elements such as Alu repeats
  • These hairpins associate with ribonuclear proteins and can undergo adenosine to inosine (A to I) hyper editing (Zhang and Carmichael 2001; Bond and Fox, 2009).
  • a to I adenosine to inosine
  • Other studies have also shown the importance of A-to-I editing in human RNAs as a reason for their stability (Athanasiadis, 2004; Kim, 2004).
  • mutant expanded nucleotide repeat-containing RNAs form hairpins that associate with nuclear proteins or other proteins and thereby become sequestered or retained in the nucleus.
  • RNA may be major contributing factors to nuclear retention or the increased stability of nuclear-retained RNAs.
  • the nrRNA targeted or provided in the methods as described herein has an extended 3′ UTR.
  • the nrRNA has one or more inverted repeat elements.
  • the nrRNA contains inosine or undergoes A to I editing.
  • the nrRNA binds nucleoproteins, ribonucleoproteins or snRNPs or a complex of any one or more thereof.
  • nrRNAs are generally understood to have greater stability compared to protein-coding RNAs.
  • the comparative stability of nrRNAs is generally attributed to their structure as well as association with ribonucleoprotein complexes (Viegas, S. C. and Arraiano, C. M. RNA Biol. 2008. 5: 230-243).
  • the MALAT1 transcript which has a long half-life, has a conserved genomically encoded short poly(A)-rich tract which yields a short poly(A) tail-like moiety at its 3′-end in the mature transcript.
  • the presence of such short poly(A) tracts or tails have been previously shown to be effective at ensuring RNA stability (Peng, J. et al., RNA 2005.
  • U-rich motifs are also believed to play a role in RNA stability. The presence of a poly(A) tail-like moiety and nearby U-rich motifs are believed to be the reason for the long half-life of MALAT-1 and its resistance to exonucleases (Wilusz J. E. et al., Cell 2008. 135: 919-932).
  • the nrRNA targeted or provided in the methods described herein includes a poly(A) tail or U-rich motifs.
  • Long non-coding RNA may serve one of many functions, such as structural, house-keeping, silencing by antisense or repression, and/or regulation of other gene expression.
  • Mercer et al. Mercer, T. R. et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2008. 105: 716-721
  • 849 long ncRNAs that are expressed in the adult mouse brain and found that the majority of processed transcripts with no protein-coding capacity function intrinsically as RNAs.
  • Guttman et al. (Guttman, M. et al., Nature., 2009, 458, 223-227) have identified over a thousand long ncRNAs (large intervening non-coding RNAs or lincRNAs) and have assigned putative functions to each, demonstrating a diverse range of roles in processes from embryonic stem cell pluripotency to cell proliferation.
  • RNAs described in literature as possessing structural function are Neat1 (Clemson, C. M. et al., Mol. Cell 2009. 33: 717-726), Neat2/Malat-1 (Wilusz, J. E. et al., Cell 2008. 135: 919-932), hsr-omega (Lakhotia, S. C. et al., Curr. Sci. 1999. 77: 553-563), Xlsirt, which anchors other RNAs to the vegetal cortex in Xenopus oocytes (Kloc, M. and Etkin, L. D. Science 1994.
  • Satellite III which has been implicated in the establishment and maintenance of a specific chromatin structure at the 9q12 pericentromeric region during stress (Jolly, C. and Lakhotia, S. C. Nucleic Acids Res. 2006. 34: 5508-5514), and Men ⁇ (Sasaki, Y. T. et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2009. 106: 2525-2530).
  • Recent studies have implicated long ncRNAs as messengers of non-Mendelian inheritance of extragenomic information. Long ncRNAs hothead in Arapidopsis thaliana (Lolle, S. J. Nature 2005. 434: 505-509) and Kit in mouse (Rassoulzadegan, M. et al., Nature 2006. 441: 469-474) both function as alternate genome caches.
  • ZNF127AS which is antisense to the ZNF127 gene (Jong 1999); NESPAS, antisense to the NESP55 gene (Wroe, S. F. et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 2000. 97: 3342-3346); SRG1, which represses transcription of the SER3 gene in yeast (Martens, J. A. et al., Genes & Dev. 2004. 19: 2695-2704); antisense transcripts against the ErbA ⁇ 2 mRNA in B cells (Hastings, M. L. et al., Nucleic Acids Res. 1997.
  • Non-coding RNAs may also regulate gene expression as dsRNAs, which also induce gene silencing via RNAi pathways.
  • dsRNAs Such sense-antisense RNA-induced gene silencing has been well-documented (Aravin, A. A. Curr. Biol. 2001. 11: 1017-1027; Saito, K. et al., Genes & Dev. 2006. 20: 2214-2222; Vagin, V. V. et al., Science 2006. 313: 320-324).
  • These transcripts in mammals are called piRNAs (Aravin, A. et al., Nature 2006. 442: 203-207; Girard, A. et al., Nature 2006.
  • RNAs described in literature as possessing regulatory function are Evf (Feng, J. et al., Genes Dev. 2006. 20: 1470-1484), which interacts with homeobox transcription factor Dlx2; Glt2 (Schuster-Gossler, K. et al., Dev. Dyn. 1998. 212: 214-228),), which is involved in the regulation of the dwarfism phenotype; Gomafu (Sone, M. et al., J. Cell Sci. 2007. 120: 2498-2506), which is involved in gene expression in neurons; Sox2ot (Mikkelsen, T. S. et al., Nature 2007.
  • CAT2 transcribed nuclear RNA which regulates its protein-coding partner, the CAT2 gene (Prasanth, K. V. et al., Cell 2005. 123: 249-263), long ncRNAs Xite, Jpx and Ftx, which also regulates the Xist gene (Heard, E. and Disteche, C. M. Genes & Dev. 2006. 20: 1848-1867; Chureau, C. et al., Genome Res. 2002. 12: 894-908), long ncRNAs RoX1 and RoX2, which regulate expression of the male X chromosome (Deng, X. and Meller, V. H. Trends Biochem. Sci. 2006.
  • long ncRNAs H19 which is a maternally imprinted gene and its corresponding paternally imprinted long ncRNA, Igf2 (Brannan, C. I. et al., Mol. Cell. Biol. 1990. 10: 28-36), the long ncRNA involved in Prader-Willi/Angelman syndrome, IPW (imprinted in Prader-Willi) (Wevrick, R. et al., Hum. Mol. Genet. 1994. 3: 1877-1882), the long ncRNA UBE3A, a maternally transcribed gene (Albrecht, U. et al., Nat. Genet. 1997.
  • 7SK which binds to and inhibits RNA Pol II transcription elongation factor P-TEFb in mammals
  • 7SK which binds to and inhibits RNA Pol II transcription elongation factor P-TEFb in mammals
  • long ncRNA B2 which is upregulated during environmental stresses in mouse and which inhibits RNA Pol II
  • HSR-1 which activates heat-shock response (Shamovsky, I. et al., Nature 2006.
  • long ncRNAs BC1 and BC200 which are targeted to the dendritic domains in neurons and implicated in fragile X syndrome (O'Donell, W. T. and Warren, S. T. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 2002. 25: 315-338), NRSE which interacts with the NRSF/REST transcriptional machinery, resulting in the transition from neural stem cells to differentiated neurons (Kuwabara, T. et al., Cell 2004. 116: 779-793), viral long ncRNAs EBER1 and EBER2, which are expressed during viral latency in viruses like Epstein-Barr virus (Lerner, M. R. et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.
  • ncRNAs HAR1F and HAR1R both of which are implicated in human brain evolution (Pollard, K. S. et al., Nature 2006. 443: 167-172), and the long ncRNAs PROMPTs, which are produced upstream of active transcription sites and which positively correlated to gene activity (Preker, P. et al., Science 2008. 322: 1851-1854).
  • HIS-1 which is implicated in lymphomagenesis and erythroleukemogenesis (Tam, W. et al., J. Virol. 2002. 76: 4275-4286)
  • BC200 which is overexpressed in breast, cervix, esophagus, lung, ovary, parotid, and tongue cancers (Chen, W. et al., J. Pathol. 1997. 183: 345-351)
  • BCMS which is implicated in B-cell neoplasia (Wolf, S. et al., Hum. Mol. Genet. 2001.
  • CMPD Campomyelic dysplasia
  • HOST2 which is expressed in ovarian cancer cells
  • NC612 which is implicated in prostate cancer
  • SRA which is a steroid receptor activated RNA isoform expressed in breast cancer
  • TRNG10 which is implicated in various cancers
  • ncRNAs implicated in various disorders are BC200 in Alzheimer's disease (Lukiw, W. J. et al., Neurochem. Res. 1992. 17: 591-597), DISC2 in schizophrenia and bipolar affective disorder (Millar, J. K. et al., Hum. Mol. Genet. 2000. 9: 1415-1423; Millar J. K. et al., Ann. Med. 2004. 36: 367-378), IPW in Prader-Willi syndrome (Wevrick, R. et al., Hum. Mol. Genet. 1994. 3: 1877-1882), prion-associated RNAs in prion pathologies (Deleault, N. R. et al., Nature. 2003.
  • PSZA11q14 which has reduced expression in the brains of schizophrenic patients (Polesskaya, O. O. et al., J. Neurosci. Res. 2003. 74: 111-122), RAY1/ST7 in autistic disorder (Vincent, J. B. et al., Genomics 2002. 80: 283-294), SCA8 in spinocerebellar ataxia type 8 (Nemes, J. P. et al., Hum. Mol. Genet. 2000. 9: 1543-1551), UBE3A-AS in Angelman syndrome (Chamberlain, S. J. and Brannan, C. I. Genomics 2001.
  • BIC is a nuclear non-coding pri-miRNA precursor which is overexpressed in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and Burkitt's lymphomas (van den Berg, A. et al., Genes Chromosomes Cancer 2003. 37: 20-28).
  • Small nucleolar RNAs are another type of nuclear-retained non-coding RNA localized to the nucleolus inside the nucleus of eukaryotic cells.
  • snoRNA have been shown to be associated with precursors of ribosomal RNA (rRNA). Accordingly, certain snoRNAs have been reported to be involved in nucleotide modification and processing of pre-rRNA.
  • the snoRNA U16 and U50 function in the modification of other small nuclear RNAs (Fragapane, P. et al., EMBO J. 12: 2921-2928, 1993; Tanaka, R. et al., Genes Cells. 5: 277-287, 2000).
  • RNA found in Cajal bodies have been referred to as small Cajal body-specific RNA (scaRNA).
  • scaRNA small Cajal body-specific RNA
  • Certain scaRNA have been reported to be involved in nucleotide modification of spliceosomal small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs).
  • SnoRNA machinery has been implicated in human diseases such as Dyskeratosis congenital and Prader-Willi syndrome (Meier, U. T., Chromosoma 2005 114: 1-14).
  • Mutant expanded nucleotide repeat-containing RNAs can form hairpins that associate with nuclear proteins or other proteins that become sequestered or retained in the nucleus.
  • These expanded nucleotide repeat-containing RNAs are also referred to in the art as “gain-of-function RNAs” that gain the ability to sequester ribonuclear proteins and impair the normal action of RNA processing in the nucleus (see Cooper, T. (2009) Cell 136, 777-793; O'Rourke, J R (2009) J. Biol. Chem. 284 (12), 7419-7423).
  • Several disease states are associated with enrRNAs, some of said diseases only occurring where a threshold number of repeats are contained within the enrRNA.
  • one disease state might be caused by 50-200 repeats in a particular gene, where a different disease or severity is caused by a different number of repeats >400 in the same gene.
  • Some mutations that caused enrRNAs can be heterozygous and therefore some copies of the gene can be functional and as a result, there is a need to interfere with the mutant version of the gene without affecting the wild type copy of the gene.
  • nucleotide repeat-containing RNA molecules that can have expanded repeat elements implicated in disease are the following:
  • NM_004576.2 ataxia 12 phosphatase 56: 397, 2001 PP2A (PPP2R2B) 7 to 28 66 to 78 Wikipedia Spinocerebellar CAG TATA box- 25 to 42 47 to 63 Eur. J. Hum. M55654.1 83 ataxia 17/ binding Genet. 9: 160, Huntington protein (TBP) 2001 disease- (NCBI/OMIM) like 4 (HDL4) Spinocerebellar CAG ATXN2 17 to 29 37 to 50 Nat. Genet. 14: NM_002973.3 84 ataxia 2 285, 1996 (NCBI/OMIM) 15 to 34 35 to 59 Nat. Genet.
  • DM1 myotonic dystrophy type 1
  • UTR 3′ untranslated region
  • Affected individuals typically have DMPK alleles with several thousand repeats in skeletal and cardiac muscle.
  • RNA dominance a disease process in which expression of RNA containing an expanded CUG repeat (CUGexp) induces cell dysfunction and ultimately cell degeneration in muscle.
  • CUGexp RNA containing an expanded CUG repeat
  • a critical step in this process is the interaction of CUG repeats with splicing factors in the Muscleblind-like (MBNL1) family. This interaction causes retention of CUGexp RNA in nuclear foci, which adversely effects transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of other genes.
  • Treatment of the disease is complicated because the drug or agent must be taken up by muscle tissue. Oligonucleotide uptake in muscle tissue is very low.
  • MALAT1 is stable over a period of at least 10 hours.
  • Subcutaneous administration of oligonucleotide targeting MALAT1 at doses commensurate with other oligonucleotide drugs (e.g., liver targeting drugs) achieved pharmacologically relevant reduction of MALAT1 in skeletal and cardiac muscle.
  • Dosing at 50 mg/kg biweekly for 3.5 weeks achieved a 89% and 85% reduction in gastrocnemius and quadriceps, respectively, and 54% reduction in heart (as compared to 95% reduction in liver).
  • Pharmacologically relevant reduction of MALAT1 has also been achieved in tumor xenograft models.
  • nuclear-retained RNA is a mutant RNA
  • this sensitivity also provides a means to selectively reduce mutant RNA over wild-type. This approach is advantageous as the risk of inducing functional protein deficiency is reduced.
  • Oligomeric compounds include, but are not limited to, oligonucleotides, oligonucleosides, oligonucleotide analogs, oligonucleotide mimetics, antisense compounds, antisense oligonucleotides, and siRNAs.
  • An oligomeric compound can be “antisense” to a target nucleic acid, meaning that is capable of undergoing hybridization to a target nucleic acid through hydrogen bonding.
  • an antisense compound has a nucleobase sequence that, when written in the 5′ to 3′ direction, comprises the reverse complement of the target segment of a target nucleic acid to which it is targeted.
  • an antisense oligonucleotide has a nucleobase sequence that, when written in the 5′ to 3′ direction, comprises the reverse complement of the target segment of a target nucleic acid to which it is targeted.
  • an antisense compound targeted to a nrRNA nucleic acid is 10 to 30 nucleotides in length.
  • antisense compounds are from 10 to 30 linked nucleobases.
  • the antisense compound comprises a modified oligonucleotide consisting of 8 to 80, 10-80, 12 to 50, 15 to 30, 18 to 24, 19 to 22, or 20 linked nucleobases.
  • the antisense compound comprises a modified oligonucleotide consisting of 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, or 80 linked nucleobases in length, or a range defined by any two of the above values.
  • the antisense compound comprises a shortened or truncated modified oligonucleotide.
  • the shortened or truncated modified oligonucleotide can have a single nucleoside deleted from the 5′ end (5′ truncation), or alternatively from the 3′ end (3′ truncation).
  • a shortened or truncated oligonucleotide can have two nucleosides deleted from the 5′ end, or alternatively can have two subunits deleted from the 3′ end.
  • the deleted nucleosides can be dispersed throughout the modified oligonucleotide, for example, in an antisense compound having one nucleoside deleted from the 5′ end and one nucleoside deleted from the 3′ end.
  • the additional nucleoside can be located at the 5′ or 3′ end of the oligonucleotide.
  • the added nucleosides can be adjacent to each other, for example, in an oligonucleotide having two nucleosides added to the 5′ end (5′ addition), or alternatively to the 3′ end (3′ addition), of the oligonucleotide.
  • the added nucleoside can be dispersed throughout the antisense compound, for example, in an oligonucleotide having one nucleoside added to the 5′ end and one subunit added to the 3′ end.
  • an antisense compound such as an antisense oligonucleotide
  • an antisense oligonucleotide it is possible to increase or decrease the length of an antisense compound, such as an antisense oligonucleotide, and/or introduce mismatch bases without eliminating activity.
  • an antisense compound such as an antisense oligonucleotide
  • a series of antisense oligonucleotides 13-25 nucleobases in length were tested for their ability to induce cleavage of a target RNA in an oocyte injection model.
  • Antisense oligonucleotides 25 nucleobases in length with 8 or 11 mismatch bases near the ends of the antisense oligonucleotides were able to direct specific cleavage of the target mRNA, albeit to a lesser extent than the antisense oligonucleotides that contained no mismatches. Similarly, target specific cleavage was achieved using 13 nucleobase antisense oligonucleotides, including those with 1 or 3 mismatches.
  • Gautschi et al demonstrated the ability of an oligonucleotide having 100% complementarity to the bcl-2 mRNA and having 3 mismatches to the bcl-xL mRNA to reduce the expression of both bcl-2 and bcl-xL in vitro and in vivo. Furthermore, this oligonucleotide demonstrated potent anti-tumor activity in vivo.
  • antisense compounds targeted to a nrRNA nucleic acid have chemically modified subunits arranged in patterns, or motifs, to confer to the antisense compounds properties such as enhanced the inhibitory activity, increased binding affinity for a target nucleic acid, or resistance to degradation by in vivo nucleases.
  • Chimeric antisense compounds typically contain at least one region modified so as to confer increased resistance to nuclease degradation, increased cellular uptake, increased binding affinity for the target nucleic acid, and/or increased inhibitory activity.
  • a second region of a chimeric antisense compound can optionally serve as a substrate for the nuclear ribonuclease RNase H, which cleaves the RNA strand of an RNA:DNA duplex.
  • Antisense compounds having a gapmer motif are considered chimeric antisense compounds.
  • a gapmer an internal region having a plurality of nucleotides that supports RNaseH cleavage is positioned between external regions having a plurality of nucleotides that are chemically distinct from the nucleosides of the internal region.
  • the gap segment In the case of an antisense oligonucleotide having a gapmer motif, the gap segment generally serves as the substrate for endonuclease cleavage, while the wing segments comprise modified nucleosides.
  • the regions of a gapmer are differentiated by the types of sugar moieties comprising each distinct region.
  • each distinct region comprises uniform sugar moieties.
  • wing-gap-wing motif is frequently described as “X-Y-Z”, where “X” represents the length of the 5′ wing region, “Y” represents the length of the gap region, and “Z” represents the length of the 3′ wing region.
  • a gapmer described as “X-Y-Z” has a configuration such that the gap segment is positioned immediately adjacent each of the 5′ wing segment and the 3′ wing segment. Thus, no intervening nucleotides exist between the 5′ wing segment and gap segment, or the gap segment and the 3′ wing segment.
  • Any of the antisense compounds described herein can have a gapmer motif.
  • X and Z are the same, in other embodiments they are different.
  • Y is between 8 and 15 nucleotides.
  • X, Y or Z can be any of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 30 or more nucleotides.
  • gapmers include, but are not limited to, for example 5-10-5, 4-8-4, 4-12-3, 4-12-4, 3-14-3, 2-13-5, 2-16-2, 1-18-1, 3-10-3, 2-10-2, 1-10-1, 2-8-2, 6-8-6, 5-8-5, 1-8-1, or 2-6-2.
  • the antisense compound as a “wingmer” motif, having a wing-gap or gap-wing configuration, i.e. an X-Y or Y-Z configuration as described above for the gapmer configuration.
  • wingmer configurations include, but are not limited to, for example 5-10, 8-4, 4-12, 12-4, 3-14, 16-2, 18-1, 10-3, 2-10, 1-10, 8-2, 2-13, or 5-13.
  • antisense compounds targeted to a nrRNA nucleic acid possess a 5-10-5 gapmer motif.
  • an antisense compound targeted to a nrRNA nucleic acid has a gap-widened motif.
  • Nucleotide sequences that encode a nrRNA include, without limitation, those described herein, including those listed in Table 1 and Table 2.
  • antisense compounds defined by a SEQ ID NO can comprise, independently, one or more modifications to a sugar moiety, an internucleoside linkage, or a nucleobase.
  • Antisense compounds described by Isis Number (Isis No) indicate a combination of nucleobase sequence and motif.
  • a target region is a structurally defined region of the target nucleic acid.
  • a target region can encompass a 3′ UTR, a 5′ UTR, an exon, an intron, an exon/intron junction, a coding region, a translation initiation region, translation termination region, or other defined nucleic acid region.
  • the structurally defined regions for a nrRNA can be obtained by accession number from sequence databases such as NCBI and such information is incorporated herein by reference.
  • a target region can encompass the sequence from a 5′ target site of one target segment within the target region to a 3′ target site of another target segment within the target region.
  • Targeting includes determination of at least one target segment to which an antisense compound hybridizes, such that a desired effect occurs.
  • the desired effect is a reduction in mRNA target nucleic acid levels.
  • the desired effect is reduction of levels of protein encoded by the target nucleic acid or a phenotypic change associated with the target nucleic acid.
  • a target region can contain one or more target segments. Multiple target segments within a target region can be overlapping. Alternatively, they can be non-overlapping. In certain embodiments, target segments within a target region are separated by no more than about 300 nucleotides. In certain embodiments, target segments within a target region are separated by a number of nucleotides that is, is about, is no more than, is no more than about, 250, 200, 150, 100, 90, 80, 70, 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, or 10 nucleotides on the target nucleic acid, or is a range defined by any two of the preceding values. In certain embodiments, target segments within a target region are separated by no more than, or no more than about, 5 nucleotides on the target nucleic acid. In certain embodiments, target segments are contiguous. Contemplated are target regions defined by a range having a starting nucleic acid that is any of the 5′ target sites or 3′ target sites listed herein.
  • Suitable target segments can be found within a 5′ UTR, a coding region, a 3′ UTR, an intron, an exon, or an exon/intron junction.
  • Target segments containing a start codon or a stop codon are also suitable target segments.
  • a suitable target segment can specifically exclude a certain structurally defined region such as the start codon or stop codon.
  • the determination of suitable target segments can include a comparison of the sequence of a target nucleic acid to other sequences throughout the genome.
  • the BLAST algorithm can be used to identify regions of similarity amongst different nucleic acids. This comparison can prevent the selection of antisense compound sequences that can hybridize in a non-specific manner to sequences other than a selected target nucleic acid (i.e., non-target or off-target sequences).
  • phenotypic changes such as a treating, ameliorating, delaying or reducing a symptom of a disease or disorder associated with a nuclear-retained RNA, are indicative of inhibition of a nrRNA.
  • hybridization occurs between an antisense compound disclosed herein and a nrRNA.
  • the most common mechanism of hybridization involves hydrogen bonding (e.g., Watson-Crick, Hoogsteen or reversed Hoogsteen hydrogen bonding) between complementary nucleobases of the nucleic acid molecules.
  • Hybridization can occur under varying conditions. Stringent conditions are sequence-dependent and are determined by the nature and composition of the nucleic acid molecules to be hybridized.
  • the antisense compounds provided herein are specifically hybridizable with a nrRNA.
  • An antisense compound and a target nucleic acid are complementary to each other when a sufficient number of nucleobases of the antisense compound can hydrogen bond with the corresponding nucleobases of the target nucleic acid, such that a desired effect will occur (e.g., antisense inhibition of a target nucleic acid, such as a nrRNA).
  • An antisense compound can hybridize over one or more segments of a nrRNA such that intervening or adjacent segments are not involved in the hybridization event (e.g., a loop structure, mismatch or hairpin structure).
  • the antisense compounds provided herein, or a specified portion thereof are, or are at least 70%, 80%, 85%, 86%, 87%, 88, %, 89%, 90%, 91%, 92%, 93%, 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%, or 100% complementary to a nrRNA, a target region, target segment, or specified portion thereof.
  • the antisense compounds are at least 70%, at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 86%, at least 87%, at least 88%, at least 89%, at least 90%, at least 91%, at least 92%, at least 93%, at least 94%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or 100% complementary to a nrRNA, a target region, target segment, or specified portion thereof and contain at least 8, at least 9, at least 10, at least 11, at least 12, at least 13, at least 14, at least 15, at least 16, at least 17, at least 18, or at least 19, contiguous nucleobases of the nucleobase sequence of any of the exemplary antisense compounds described herein. Percent complementarity of an antisense compound with a target nucleic acid can be determined using routine methods.
  • an antisense compound in which 18 of 20 nucleobases of the antisense compound are complementary to a target region, and would therefore specifically hybridize would represent 90 percent complementarity.
  • the remaining noncomplementary nucleobases can be clustered or interspersed with complementary nucleobases and need not be contiguous to each other or to complementary nucleobases.
  • an antisense compound which is 18 nucleobases in length having 4 (four) noncomplementary nucleobases which are flanked by two regions of complete complementarity with the target nucleic acid would have 77.8% overall complementarity with the target nucleic acid and would thus fall within the scope of the present invention.
  • Percent complementarity of an antisense compound with a region of a target nucleic acid can be determined routinely using BLAST programs (basic local alignment search tools) and PowerBLAST programs known in the art (Altschul et al., J. Mol. Biol., 1990, 215, 403 410; Zhang and Madden, Genome Res., 1997, 7, 649 656). Percent homology, sequence identity or complementarity, can be determined by, for example, the Gap program (Wisconsin Sequence Analysis Package, Version 8 for Unix, Genetics Computer Group, University Research Park, Madison Wis.), using default settings, which uses the algorithm of Smith and Waterman (Adv. Appl. Math., 1981, 2, 482 489).
  • the antisense compounds provided herein, or specified portions thereof are fully complementary (i.e. 100% complementary) to a target nucleic acid, or specified portion thereof.
  • antisense compound can be fully complementary to target nucleic acid, or a target region, or a target segment or target sequence thereof.
  • “fully complementary” means each nucleobase of an antisense compound is capable of precise base pairing with the corresponding nucleobases of a target nucleic acid.
  • a 20 nucleobase antisense compound is fully complementary to a target sequence that is 400 nucleobases long, so long as there is a corresponding 20 nucleobase portion of the target nucleic acid that is fully complementary to the antisense compound.
  • Fully complementary can also be used in reference to a specified portion of the first and/or the second nucleic acid.
  • a 20 nucleobase portion of a 30 nucleobase antisense compound can be “fully complementary” to a target sequence that is 400 nucleobases long.
  • the 20 nucleobase portion of the 30 nucleobase oligonucleotide is fully complementary to the target sequence if the target sequence has a corresponding 20 nucleobase portion wherein each nucleobase is complementary to the 20 nucleobase portion of the antisense compound.
  • the entire 30 nucleobase antisense compound can be fully complementary to the target sequence, depending on whether the remaining 10 nucleobases of the antisense compound are also complementary to the target sequence.
  • non-complementary nucleobase can be at the 5′ end or 3′ end of the antisense compound.
  • the non-complementary nucleobase or nucleobases can be at an internal position of the antisense compound.
  • two or more non-complementary nucleobases are present, they can be either contiguous (i.e. linked) or non-contiguous.
  • a non-complementary nucleobase is located in the wing segment of a gapmer antisense oligonucleotide.
  • antisense compounds that are, or are up to 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, or 20 nucleobases in length comprise no more than 4, no more than 3, no more than 2, or no more than 1 non-complementary nucleobase(s) relative to a target nucleic acid, such as a nrRNA, or specified portion thereof.
  • antisense compounds that are, or are up to 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, or 30 nucleobases in length comprise no more than 6, no more than 5, no more than 4, no more than 3, no more than 2, or no more than 1 non-complementary nucleobase(s) relative to a target nucleic acid, such as a nrRNA, or specified portion thereof.
  • the antisense compounds provided herein also include those which are complementary to a portion of a target nucleic acid.
  • portion refers to a defined number of contiguous (i.e. linked) nucleobases within a region or segment of a target nucleic acid.
  • a “portion” can also refer to a defined number of contiguous nucleobases of an antisense compound.
  • the antisense compounds are complementary to at least an 8 nucleobase portion of a target segment.
  • the antisense compounds are complementary to at least a 10 nucleobase portion of a target segment.
  • the antisense compounds are complementary to at least a 15 nucleobase portion of a target segment.
  • antisense compounds that are complementary to at least an 8, at least a 9, at least a 10, at least an 11, at least a 12, at least a 13, at least a 14, at least a 15, at least a 16, at least a 17, at least a 18, at least a 19, at least a 20, or more nucleobase portion of a target segment, or a range defined by any two of these values.
  • the antisense compounds provided herein can also have a defined percent identity to a particular nucleotide sequence, SEQ ID NO, or compound represented by a specific Isis number, or portion thereof.
  • an antisense compound is identical to the sequence disclosed herein if it has the same nucleobase pairing ability.
  • a RNA which contains uracil in place of thymidine in a disclosed DNA sequence would be considered identical to the DNA sequence since both uracil and thymidine pair with adenine.
  • Shortened and lengthened versions of the antisense compounds described herein as well as compounds having non-identical bases relative to the antisense compounds provided herein also are contemplated.
  • the non-identical bases can be adjacent to each other or dispersed throughout the antisense compound. Percent identity of an antisense compound is calculated according to the number of bases that have identical base pairing relative to the sequence to which it is being compared.
  • the antisense compounds, or portions thereof are at least 70%, at least 75%, at least 80%, at least 85%, at least 90%, at least 95%, at least 96%, at least 97%, at least 98%, at least 99%, or 100%, identical to one or more of the antisense compounds or SEQ ID NOs, or a portion thereof, disclosed herein.
  • a nucleoside is a base-sugar combination.
  • the nucleobase (also known as base) portion of the nucleoside is normally a heterocyclic base moiety.
  • Nucleotides are nucleosides that further include a phosphate group covalently linked to the sugar portion of the nucleoside. For those nucleosides that include a pentofuranosyl sugar, the phosphate group can be linked to the 2′, 3′ or 5′ hydroxyl moiety of the sugar.
  • Oligonucleotides are formed through the covalent linkage of adjacent nucleosides to one another, to form a linear polymeric oligonucleotide. Within the oligonucleotide structure, the phosphate groups are commonly referred to as forming the internucleoside linkages of the oligonucleotide.
  • Modifications to antisense compounds encompass substitutions or changes to internucleoside linkages, sugar moieties, or nucleobases. Modified antisense compounds are often preferred over native forms because of desirable properties such as, for example, enhanced cellular uptake, enhanced affinity for nucleic acid target, increased stability in the presence of nucleases, or increased inhibitory activity.
  • Chemically modified nucleosides can also be employed to increase the binding affinity of a shortened or truncated antisense oligonucleotide for its target nucleic acid. Consequently, comparable results can often be obtained with shorter antisense compounds that have such chemically modified nucleosides.
  • RNA and DNA The naturally occurring internucleoside linkage of RNA and DNA is a 3′ to 5′ phosphodiester linkage.
  • Antisense compounds having one or more modified, i.e. non-naturally occurring, internucleoside linkages are often selected over antisense compounds having naturally occurring internucleoside linkages because of desirable properties such as, for example, enhanced cellular uptake, enhanced affinity for target nucleic acids, and increased stability in the presence of nucleases.
  • Oligonucleotides having modified internucleoside linkages include internucleoside linkages that retain a phosphorus atom as well as internucleoside linkages that do not have a phosphorus atom.
  • Representative phosphorus containing internucleoside linkages include, but are not limited to, phosphodiesters, phosphotriesters, methylphosphonates, phosphoramidate, and phosphorothioates. Methods of preparation of phosphorus-containing and non-phosphorus-containing linkages are well known.
  • antisense compounds targeted to a nrRNA comprise one or more modified internucleoside linkages.
  • the modified internucleoside linkages are phosphorothioate linkages.
  • each internucleoside linkage of an antisense compound is a phosphorothioate internucleoside linkage.
  • Antisense compounds of the invention can optionally contain one or more nucleosides wherein the sugar group has been modified.
  • Such sugar modified nucleosides may impart enhanced nuclease stability, increased binding affinity, or some other beneficial biological property to the antisense compounds.
  • nucleosides comprise a chemically modified ribofuranose ring moieties.
  • Examples of chemically modified ribofuranose rings include without limitation, addition of substitutent groups (including 5′ and 2′ substituent groups, bridging of non-geminal ring atoms to form bicyclic nucleic acids (BNA), replacement of the ribosyl ring oxygen atom with S, N(R), or C(R1)(R)2 (R ⁇ H, C1-C12 alkyl or a protecting group) and combinations thereof.
  • Examples of chemically modified sugars include 2′-F-5′-methyl substituted nucleoside (see PCT International Application WO 2008/101157 Published on Aug.
  • nucleosides having modified sugar moieties include without limitation nucleosides comprising 5′-vinyl, 5′-methyl (R or S), 4′-S, 2′-F, 2′-OCH3 and 2′-O(CH2)2OCH3 substituent groups.
  • the substituent at the 2′ position can also be selected from allyl, amino, azido, thio, O-allyl, O—C1-C10 alkyl, OCF3, O(CH2)2SCH3, O(CH2)2-O—N(Rm)(Rn), and O—CH2-C( ⁇ O)—N(Rm)(Rn), where each Rm and Rn is, independently, H or substituted or unsubstituted C1-C10 alkyl.
  • bicyclic nucleosides refer to modified nucleosides comprising a bicyclic sugar moiety.
  • examples of bicyclic nucleosides include without limitation nucleosides comprising a bridge between the 4′ and the 2′ ribosyl ring atoms.
  • antisense compounds provided herein include one or more bicyclic nucleosides wherein the bridge comprises a 4′ to 2′ bicyclic nucleoside.
  • 4′ to 2′ bicyclic nucleosides include but are not limited to one of the formulae: 4′-(CH 2 )—O-2′ (LNA); 4′-(CH 2 )—S-2′; 4′-(CH 2 ) 2 —O-2′ (ENA); 4′-CH(CH 3 )—O-2′ and 4′-CH(CH 2 OCH 3 )—O-2′ (and analogs thereof see U.S. Pat. No. 7,399,845, issued on Jul. 15, 2008); 4′-C(CH 3 )(CH 3 )—O-2′ (and analogs thereof see published International Application WO/2009/006478, published Jan.
  • Each of the foregoing bicyclic nucleosides can be prepared having one or more stereochemical sugar configurations including for example ⁇ -L-ribofuranose and ⁇ -D-ribofuranose (see PCT international application PCT/DK98/00393, published on Mar. 25, 1999 as WO 99/14226).
  • bicyclic sugar moieties of BNA nucleosides include, but are not limited to, compounds having at least one bridge between the 4′ and the 2′ position of the pentofuranosyl sugar moiety wherein such bridges independently comprises 1 or from 2 to 4 linked groups independently selected from —[C(R a )(R b )] n —, —C(R a ) ⁇ C(R b )—, —C(R a ) ⁇ N—, —C( ⁇ NR a )—, —C( ⁇ O)—, —C( ⁇ S)—, —O—, —Si(R a ) 2 —, —S( ⁇ O) x —, and —N(R a )—;
  • x 0, 1, or 2;
  • n 1, 2, 3, or 4;
  • each R a and R b is, independently, H, a protecting group, hydroxyl, C 1 -C 12 alkyl, substituted C 1 -C 12 alkyl, C 2 -C 12 alkenyl, substituted C 2 -C 12 alkenyl, C 2 -C 12 alkynyl, substituted C 2 -C 12 alkynyl, C 5 -C 20 aryl, substituted C 5 -C 20 aryl, heterocycle radical, substituted heterocycle radical, heteroaryl, substituted heteroaryl, C 5 -C 7 alicyclic radical, substituted C 5 -C 7 alicyclic radical, halogen, OJ 1 , NJ 1 J 2 , SJ 1 , N 3 , COOJ 1 , acyl (C( ⁇ O)—H), substituted acyl, CN, sulfonyl (S( ⁇ O) 2 -J 1 ), or sulfoxyl (S( ⁇ O)-J 1 ); and
  • each J 1 and J 2 is, independently, H, C 1 -C 12 alkyl, substituted C 1 -C 12 alkyl, C 2 -C 12 alkenyl, substituted C 2 -C 12 alkenyl, C 2 -C 12 alkynyl, substituted C 2 -C 12 alkynyl, C 5 -C 20 aryl, substituted C 5 -C 20 aryl, acyl (C( ⁇ O)—H), substituted acyl, a heterocycle radical, a substituted heterocycle radical, C 1 -C 12 aminoalkyl, substituted C 1 -C 12 aminoalkyl or a protecting group.
  • the bridge of a bicyclic sugar moiety is, —[C(R a )(R b )] n —, —[C(R a )(R b )] n —O—, —C(R a R b )—N(R)—O— or —C(R a R b )—O—N(R)—.
  • the bridge is 4′-CH 2 -2′, 4′-(CH 2 ) 2 -2′, 4′-(CH 2 ) 3 -2′, 4′-CH 2 —O-2′, 4′-(CH 2 ) 2 —O-2′, 4′-CH 2 —O—N(R)-2′ and 4′-CH 2 —N(R)—O-2′- wherein each R is, independently, H, a protecting group or C 1 -C 12 alkyl.
  • bicyclic nucleosides are further defined by isomeric configuration.
  • a nucleoside comprising a 4′-2′ methylene-oxy bridge may be in the ⁇ -L configuration or in the ⁇ -D configuration.
  • ⁇ -L-methyleneoxy (4′-CH 2 —O-2′) BNA's have been incorporated into antisense oligonucleotides that showed antisense activity (Frieden et al., Nucleic Acids Research, 2003, 21, 6365-6372).
  • bicyclic nucleosides include, but are not limited to, (A) ⁇ -L-Methyleneoxy (4′-CH 2 —O-2′) BNA, (B) ⁇ -D-Methyleneoxy (4′-CH 2 —O-2′) BNA, (C) Ethyleneoxy (4′-(CH 2 ) 2 —O2′) BNA, (D) Aminooxy (4′-CH 2 —O—N(R)-2′) BNA, (E) Oxyamino (4′-CH 2 —N(R)—O-2′) BNA, and (F) Methyl(methyleneoxy) (4′-CH(CH 3 )—O-2′) BNA, (G) methylene-thio (4′-CH 2 —S-2′) BNA, (H) methylene-amino (4′-CH2-N(R)-2′) BNA, (I) methyl carbocyclic (4′-CH 2 —CH(CH 3 )-2′) BNA
  • Bx is the base moiety and R is independently H, a protecting group or C 1 -C 12 alkyl.
  • bicyclic nucleoside having Formula I having Formula I:
  • Bx is a heterocyclic base moiety
  • -Q a -Q b -Q c - is —CH 2 —N(R c )—CH 2 —, —C( ⁇ O)—N(R c )—CH 2 —, —CH 2 —O—N(R c )—, —CH 2 —N(R c )—O— or —N(R c )—O—CH 2 ;
  • R c is C 1 -C 12 alkyl or an amino protecting group
  • T a and T b are each, independently H, a hydroxyl protecting group, a conjugate group, a reactive phosphorus group, a phosphorus moiety or a covalent attachment to a support medium.
  • bicyclic nucleoside having Formula II having Formula II:
  • Bx is a heterocyclic base moiety
  • T a and T b are each, independently H, a hydroxyl protecting group, a conjugate group, a reactive phosphorus group, a phosphorus moiety or a covalent attachment to a support medium;
  • Z a is C 1 -C 6 alkyl, C 2 -C 6 alkenyl, C 2 -C 6 alkynyl, substituted C 1 -C 6 alkyl, substituted C 2 -C 6 alkenyl, substituted C 2 -C 6 alkynyl, acyl, substituted acyl, substituted amide, thiol or substituted thio.
  • each of the substituted groups is, independently, mono or poly substituted with substituent groups independently selected from halogen, oxo, hydroxyl, OJ c , NJ c J d , SJ c , N 3 , OC( ⁇ X)J c , and NJ e C( ⁇ X)NJ c J d , wherein each J c , J d and J e is, independently, H, C 1 -C 6 alkyl, or substituted C 1 -C 6 alkyl and X is O or NJ c .
  • bicyclic nucleoside having Formula III having Formula III:
  • Bx is a heterocyclic base moiety
  • T a and T b are each, independently H, a hydroxyl protecting group, a conjugate group, a reactive phosphorus group, a phosphorus moiety or a covalent attachment to a support medium;
  • Z b is C 1 -C 6 alkyl, C 2 -C 6 alkenyl, C 2 -C 6 alkynyl, substituted C 1 -C 6 alkyl, substituted C 2 -C 6 alkenyl, substituted C 2 -C 6 alkynyl or substituted acyl (C( ⁇ O)—).
  • bicyclic nucleoside having Formula IV having Formula IV:
  • Bx is a heterocyclic base moiety
  • T a and T b are each, independently H, a hydroxyl protecting group, a conjugate group, a reactive phosphorus group, a phosphorus moiety or a covalent attachment to a support medium;
  • R d is C 1 -C 6 alkyl, substituted C 1 -C 6 alkyl, C 2 -C 6 alkenyl, substituted C 2 -C 6 alkenyl, C 2 -C 6 alkynyl or substituted C 2 -C 6 alkynyl;
  • each q a , q b , q c and q d is, independently, H, halogen, C 1 -C 6 alkyl, substituted C 1 -C 6 alkyl, C 2 -C 6 alkenyl, substituted C 2 -C 6 alkenyl, C 2 -C 6 alkynyl or substituted C 2 -C 6 alkynyl, C 1 -C 6 alkoxyl, substituted C 1 -C 6 alkoxyl, acyl, substituted acyl, C 1 -C 6 aminoalkyl or substituted C 1 -C 6 aminoalkyl;
  • bicyclic nucleoside having Formula V having Formula V:
  • Bx is a heterocyclic base moiety
  • T a and T b are each, independently H, a hydroxyl protecting group, a conjugate group, a reactive phosphorus group, a phosphorus moiety or a covalent attachment to a support medium;
  • q a , q b , q e and q f are each, independently, hydrogen, halogen, C 1 -C 12 alkyl, substituted C 1 -C 12 alkyl, C 2 -C 12 alkenyl, substituted C 2 -C 12 alkenyl, C 2 -C 12 alkynyl, substituted C 2 -C 12 alkynyl, C 1 -C 12 alkoxy, substituted C 1 -C 12 alkoxy, OJ j , SJ j , SOJ j , SO 2 J j , NJ j J k , N 3 , CN, C( ⁇ O)OJ j , C( ⁇ O)NJ j J k , C( ⁇ O)J j , O—C( ⁇ O)NJ j J k , N(H)C( ⁇ NH)NJ j J k , N(H)C( ⁇ O)NJ j J k or N(
  • q g and q h are each, independently, H, halogen, C 1 -C 12 alkyl or substituted C 1 -C 12 alkyl.
  • BNA methyleneoxy (4′-CH 2 —O-2′) BNA monomers adenine, cytosine, guanine, 5-methyl-cytosine, thymine and uracil, along with their oligomerization, and nucleic acid recognition properties have been described (Koshkin et al., Tetrahedron, 1998, 54, 3607-3630). BNAs and preparation thereof are also described in WO 98/39352 and WO 99/14226.
  • 2′-amino-BNA a novel comformationally restricted high-affinity oligonucleotide analog has been described in the art (Singh et al., J. Org. Chem., 1998, 63, 10035-10039).
  • 2′-Amino- and 2′-methylamino-BNA's have been prepared and the thermal stability of their duplexes with complementary RNA and DNA strands has been previously reported.
  • bicyclic nucleoside having Formula VI having Formula VI:
  • Bx is a heterocyclic base moiety
  • T a and T b are each, independently H, a hydroxyl protecting group, a conjugate group, a reactive phosphorus group, a phosphorus moiety or a covalent attachment to a support medium;
  • each q i , q j , q k and q l is, independently, H, halogen, C 1 -C 12 alkyl, substituted C 1 -C 12 alkyl, C 2 -C 12 alkenyl, substituted C 2 -C 12 alkenyl, C 2 -C 12 alkynyl, substituted C 2 -C 12 alkynyl, C 1 -C 12 alkoxyl, substituted C 1 -C 12 alkoxyl, OJ j , SJ j , SOJ j , SO 2 J j , NJ j J k , N 3 , CN, C( ⁇ O)OJ j , C( ⁇ O)NJ j J k , C( ⁇ O)J j , O—C( ⁇ O)NJ j J k , N(H)C( ⁇ NH)NJ j J k , N(H)C( ⁇ O)NJ j J k or
  • q i and q j or q l and q k together are ⁇ C(q g )(q h ), wherein q g and q h are each, independently, H, halogen, C 1 -C 12 alkyl or substituted C 1 -C 12 alkyl.
  • 4′-2′ bicyclic nucleoside or “4′ to 2′ bicyclic nucleoside” refers to a bicyclic nucleoside comprising a furanose ring comprising a bridge connecting two carbon atoms of the furanose ring connects the 2′ carbon atom and the 4′ carbon atom of the sugar ring.
  • nucleosides refer to nucleosides comprising modified sugar moieties that are not bicyclic sugar moieties.
  • sugar moiety, or sugar moiety analogue, of a nucleoside may be modified or substituted at any position.
  • 2′-modified sugar means a furanosyl sugar modified at the 2′ position.
  • modifications include substituents selected from: a halide, including, but not limited to substituted and unsubstituted alkoxy, substituted and unsubstituted thioalkyl, substituted and unsubstituted amino alkyl, substituted and unsubstituted alkyl, substituted and unsubstituted allyl, and substituted and unsubstituted alkynyl.
  • 2′ modifications are selected from substituents including, but not limited to: O[(CH 2 ) n O] m CH 3 , O(CH 2 ) n NH 2 , O(CH 2 ) n CH 3 , O(CH 2 ) n ONH 2 , OCH 2 C( ⁇ O)N(H)CH 3 , and O(CH 2 ) n ON[(CH 2 ) n CH 3 ] 2 , where n and m are from 1 to about 10.
  • 2′-substituent groups can also be selected from: C 1 -C 12 alkyl, substituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, alkaryl, aralkyl, O-alkaryl or O-aralkyl, SH, SCH 3 , OCN, Cl, Br, CN, CF 3 , OCF 3 , SOCH 3 , SO 2 CH 3 , ONO 2 , NO 2 , N 3 , NH 2 , heterocycloalkyl, heterocycloalkaryl, aminoalkylamino, polyalkylamino, substituted silyl, an RNA cleaving group, a reporter group, an intercalator, a group for improving pharmacokinetic properties, or a group for improving the pharmacodynamic properties of an antisense compound, and other substituents having similar properties.
  • modified nucleosides comprise a 2′-MOE side chain (Baker et al., J. Biol. Chem., 1997, 272, 11944-12000).
  • 2′-MOE substitution have been described as having improved binding affinity compared to unmodified nucleosides and to other modified nucleosides, such as 2′-O-methyl, O-propyl, and O-aminopropyl.
  • Oligonucleotides having the 2′-MOE substituent also have been shown to be antisense inhibitors of gene expression with promising features for in vivo use (Martin, P., Helv. Chim.
  • a “modified tetrahydropyran nucleoside” or “modified THP nucleoside” means a nucleoside having a six-membered tetrahydropyran “sugar” substituted in for the pentofuranosyl residue in normal nucleosides (a sugar surrogate).
  • Modified THP nucleosides include, but are not limited to, what is referred to in the art as hexitol nucleic acid (HNA), anitol nucleic acid (ANA), manitol nucleic acid (MNA) (see Leumann, C J. Bioorg. & Med. Chem. (2002) 10:841-854), fluoro HNA (F-HNA) or those compounds having Formula X:
  • Bx is a heterocyclic base moiety
  • T 3 and T 4 are each, independently, an internucleoside linking group linking the tetrahydropyran nucleoside analog to the antisense compound or one of T 3 and T 4 is an internucleoside linking group linking the tetrahydropyran nucleoside analog to the antisense compound and the other of T 3 and T 4 is H, a hydroxyl protecting group, a linked conjugate group or a 5′ or 3′-terminal group;
  • q 1 , q 2 , q 3 , q 4 , q 5 , q 6 and q 7 are each independently, H, C 1 -C 6 alkyl, substituted C 1 -C 6 alkyl, C 2 -C 6 alkenyl, substituted C 2 -C 6 alkenyl, C 2 -C 6 alkynyl or substituted C 2 -C 6 alkynyl; and each of R 1 and R 2 is selected from hydrogen, hydroxyl, halogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy, NJ 1 J 2 , SJ 1 , N 3 , OC( ⁇ X)J 1 , OC( ⁇ X)NJ 1 J 2 , NJ 3 C( ⁇ X)NJ 1 J 2 and CN, wherein X is O, S or NJ 1 and each J 1 , J 2 and J 3 is, independently, H or C 1 -C 6 alkyl.
  • the modified THP nucleosides of Formula X are provided wherein q m , q n , q p , q r , q s , q t and q u are each H. In certain embodiments, at least one of q m , q n , q p , q r , q s , q t and q u is other than H. In certain embodiments, at least one of q m , q n , q p , q r , q s , q t and q u is methyl.
  • THP nucleosides of Formula X are provided wherein one of R 1 and R 2 is F.
  • R 1 is fluoro and R 2 is H; R 1 is methoxy and R 2 is H, and R 1 is methoxyethoxy and R 2 is H.
  • 2′-modified or “2′-substituted” refers to a nucleoside comprising a sugar comprising a substituent at the 2′ position other than H or OH.
  • 2′-modified nucleosides include, but are not limited to, bicyclic nucleosides wherein the bridge connecting two carbon atoms of the sugar ring connects the 2′ carbon and another carbon of the sugar ring; and nucleosides with non-bridging 2′substituents, such as allyl, amino, azido, thio, O-allyl, O—C 1 -C 10 alkyl, —OCF 3 , O—(CH 2 ) 2 —O—CH 3 , 2′-O(CH 2 ) 2 SCH 3 , O—(CH 2 ) 2 —O—N(R m )(R n ), or O—CH 2 —C( ⁇ O)—N(R m )(R n ), where
  • 2′-F refers to a nucleoside comprising a sugar comprising a fluoro group at the 2′ position.
  • 2′-OMe or “2′-OCH 3 ” or “2′-O-methyl” each refers to a nucleoside comprising a sugar comprising an —OCH 3 group at the 2′ position of the sugar ring.
  • MOE or “2′-MOE” or “2′-OCH 2 CH 2 OCH 3 ” or “2′-O-methoxyethyl” each refers to a nucleoside comprising a sugar comprising a —OCH 2 CH 2 OCH 3 group at the 2′ position of the sugar ring.
  • oligonucleotide refers to a compound comprising a plurality of linked nucleosides. In certain embodiments, one or more of the plurality of nucleosides is modified. In certain embodiments, an oligonucleotide comprises one or more ribonucleosides (RNA) and/or deoxyribonucleosides (DNA).
  • RNA ribonucleosides
  • DNA deoxyribonucleosides
  • bicyclo and tricyclo sugar surrogate ring systems are also known in the art that can be used to modify nucleosides for incorporation into antisense compounds (see for example review article: Leumann, J. C, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 2002, 10, 841-854). Such ring systems can undergo various additional substitutions to enhance activity.
  • nucleobase moieties In nucleotides having modified sugar moieties, the nucleobase moieties (natural, modified or a combination thereof) are maintained for hybridization with an appropriate nucleic acid target.
  • antisense compounds comprise one or more nucleotides having modified sugar moieties.
  • the modified sugar moiety is 2′-MOE.
  • the 2′-MOE modified nucleotides are arranged in a gapmer motif.
  • the modified sugar moiety is a cEt.
  • the cEt modified nucleotides are arranged throughout the wings of a gapmer motif.
  • Nucleobase (or base) modifications or substitutions are structurally distinguishable from, yet functionally interchangeable with, naturally occurring or synthetic unmodified nucleobases. Both natural and modified nucleobases are capable of participating in hydrogen bonding. Such nucleobase modifications can impart nuclease stability, binding affinity or some other beneficial biological property to antisense compounds.
  • Modified nucleobases include synthetic and natural nucleobases such as, for example, 5-methylcytosine (5-me-C). Certain nucleobase substitutions, including 5-methylcytosine substitutions, are particularly useful for increasing the binding affinity of an antisense compound for a target nucleic acid. For example, 5-methylcytosine substitutions have been shown to increase nucleic acid duplex stability by 0.6-1.2° C. (Sanghvi, Y. S., Crooke, S. T. and Lebleu, B., eds., Antisense Research and Applications, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1993, pp. 276-278).
  • Additional unmodified nucleobases include 5-hydroxymethyl cytosine, xanthine, hypoxanthine, 2-aminoadenine, 6-methyl and other alkyl derivatives of adenine and guanine, 2-propyl and other alkyl derivatives of adenine and guanine, 2-thiouracil, 2-thiothymine and 2-thiocytosine, 5-halouracil and cytosine, 5-propynyl (—C ⁇ C—CH3) uracil and cytosine and other alkynyl derivatives of pyrimidine bases, 6-azo uracil, cytosine and thymine, 5-uracil (pseudouracil), 4-thiouracil, 8-halo, 8-amino, 8-thiol, 8-thioalkyl, 8-hydroxyl and other 8-substituted adenines and guanines, 5-halo particularly 5-bromo, 5-trifluoromethyl and other 5-sub
  • Heterocyclic base moieties can also include those in which the purine or pyrimidine base is replaced with other heterocycles, for example 7-deaza-adenine, 7-deazaguanosine, 2-aminopyridine and 2-pyridone.
  • Nucleobases that are particularly useful for increasing the binding affinity of antisense compounds include 5-substituted pyrimidines, 6-azapyrimidines and N-2, N-6 and O-6 substituted purines, including 2 aminopropyladenine, 5-propynyluracil and 5-propynylcytosine.
  • antisense compounds targeted to a nrRNA comprise one or more modified nucleobases.
  • gap-widened antisense oligonucleotides targeted to a nrRNA comprise one or more modified nucleobases.
  • the modified nucleobase is 5-methylcytosine.
  • each cytosine is a 5-methylcytosine.
  • Antisense oligonucleotides can be admixed with pharmaceutically acceptable active or inert substance for the preparation of pharmaceutical compositions or formulations.
  • Compositions and methods for the formulation of pharmaceutical compositions are dependent upon a number of criteria, including, but not limited to, route of administration, extent of disease, or dose to be administered.
  • Antisense compound targeted to a nrRNA can be utilized in pharmaceutical compositions by combining the antisense compound with a suitable pharmaceutically acceptable diluent or carrier.
  • a pharmaceutically acceptable diluent includes phosphate-buffered saline (PBS).
  • PBS is a diluent suitable for use in compositions to be delivered parenterally.
  • employed in the methods described herein is a pharmaceutical composition comprising an antisense compound targeted to a nrRNA and a pharmaceutically acceptable diluent.
  • the pharmaceutically acceptable diluent is PBS.
  • the antisense compound is an antisense oligonucleotide.
  • compositions comprising antisense compounds encompass any pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, or salts of such esters, or any other oligonucleotide which, upon administration to an animal, including a human, is capable of providing (directly or indirectly) the biologically active metabolite or residue thereof. Accordingly, for example, the disclosure is also drawn to pharmaceutically acceptable salts of antisense compounds, prodrugs, pharmaceutically acceptable salts of such prodrugs, and other bioequivalents. Suitable pharmaceutically acceptable salts include, but are not limited to, sodium and potassium salts.
  • a prodrug can include the incorporation of additional nucleosides at one or both ends of an antisense compound which are cleaved by endogenous nucleases within the body, to form the active antisense compound.
  • Antisense compounds can be covalently linked to one or more moieties or conjugates which enhance the activity, cellular distribution or cellular uptake of the resulting antisense oligonucleotides.
  • Typical conjugate groups include cholesterol moieties and lipid moieties.
  • Additional conjugate groups include carbohydrates, phospholipids, biotin, phenazine, folate, phenanthridine, anthraquinone, acridine, fluoresceins, rhodamines, coumarins, and dyes.
  • Antisense compounds can also be modified to have one or more stabilizing groups that are generally attached to one or both termini of antisense compounds to enhance properties such as, for example, nuclease stability. Included in stabilizing groups are cap structures. These terminal modifications protect the antisense compound having terminal nucleic acid from exonuclease degradation, and can help in delivery and/or localization within a cell. The cap can be present at the 5′-terminus (5′-cap), or at the 3′-terminus (3′-cap), or can be present on both termini. Cap structures are well known in the art and include, for example, inverted deoxy abasic caps. Further 3′ and 5′-stabilizing groups that can be used to cap one or both ends of an antisense compound to impart nuclease stability include those disclosed in WO 03/004602 published on Jan. 16, 2003.
  • nrRNA The effects of antisense compounds on the level or activity of a nrRNA can be tested in vitro in a variety of cell types.
  • Cell types used for such analyses are available from commercial vendors (e.g. American Type Culture Collection, Manassus, Va.; Zen-Bio, Inc., Research Triangle Park, N.C.; Clonetics Corporation, Walkersville, Md.) and cells are cultured according to the vendor's instructions using commercially available reagents (e.g. Invitrogen Life Technologies, Carlsbad, Calif.).
  • Illustrative cell types include, but are not limited to, HepG2 cells, Hep3B cells, primary hepatocytes, A549 cells, GM04281 fibroblasts and LLC-MK2 cells.
  • Described herein are methods for treatment of cells with antisense oligonucleotides, which can be modified appropriately for treatment with other antisense compounds.
  • cells are treated with antisense oligonucleotides when the cells reach approximately 60-80% confluence in culture.
  • One reagent commonly used to introduce antisense oligonucleotides into cultured cells includes the cationic lipid transfection reagent LIPOFECTIN® (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, Calif.).
  • Antisense oligonucleotides are mixed with LIPOFECTIN® in OPTI-MEM® 1 (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, Calif.) to achieve the desired final concentration of antisense oligonucleotide and a LIPOFECTIN® concentration that typically ranges 2 to 12 ug/mL per 100 nM antisense oligonucleotide.
  • Another reagent used to introduce antisense oligonucleotides into cultured cells includes LIPOFECTAMINE 2000® (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, Calif.).
  • Antisense oligonucleotide is mixed with LIPOFECTAMINE 2000® in OPTI-MEM® 1 reduced serum medium (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, Calif.) to achieve the desired concentration of antisense oligonucleotide and a LIPOFECTAMINE® concentration that typically ranges 2 to 12 ug/mL per 100 nM antisense oligonucleotide.
  • Another reagent used to introduce antisense oligonucleotides into cultured cells includes Cytofectin® (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, Calif.). Antisense oligonucleotide is mixed with Cytofectin® in OPTI-MEM® 1 reduced serum medium (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, Calif.) to achieve the desired concentration of antisense oligonucleotide and a Cytofectin® concentration that typically ranges 2 to 12 ug/mL per 100 nM antisense oligonucleotide.
  • Another technique used to introduce antisense oligonucleotides into cultured cells includes electroporation.
  • Cells are treated with antisense oligonucleotides by routine methods. Cells are typically harvested 16-24 hours after antisense oligonucleotide treatment, at which time RNA or protein levels of target nucleic acids are measured by methods known in the art and described herein. In general, when treatments are performed in multiple replicates, the data are presented as the average of the replicate treatments.
  • the concentration of antisense oligonucleotide used varies from cell line to cell line. Methods to determine the optimal antisense oligonucleotide concentration for a particular cell line are well known in the art. Antisense oligonucleotides are typically used at concentrations ranging from 1 nM to 300 nM when transfected with LIPOFECTAMINE2000®, Lipofectin or Cytofectin. Antisense oligonucleotides are used at higher concentrations ranging from 625 to 20,000 nM when transfected using electroporation.
  • RNA analysis can be performed on total cellular RNA or poly(A)+ mRNA. Methods of RNA isolation are well known in the art. RNA is prepared using methods well known in the art, for example, using the TRIZOL® Reagent (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, Calif.) according to the manufacturer's recommended protocols.
  • Target nucleic acid levels can be quantitated by, e.g., Northern blot analysis, competitive polymerase chain reaction (PCR), or quantitative real-time PCR.
  • RNA analysis can be performed on total cellular RNA or poly(A)+ mRNA. Methods of RNA isolation are well known in the art. Northern blot analysis is also routine in the art. Quantitative real-time PCR can be conveniently accomplished using the commercially available ABI PRISM® 7600, 7700, or 7900 Sequence Detection System, available from PE-Applied Biosystems, Foster City, Calif. and used according to manufacturer's instructions.
  • Quantitation of target RNA levels can be accomplished by quantitative real-time PCR using the ABI PRISM® 7600, 7700, or 7900 Sequence Detection System (PE-Applied Biosystems, Foster City, Calif.) according to manufacturer's instructions. Methods of quantitative real-time PCR are well known in the art.
  • RNA Prior to real-time PCR, the isolated RNA is animaled to a reverse transcriptase (RT) reaction, which produces complementary DNA (cDNA) that is then used as the substrate for the real-time PCR amplification.
  • RT reverse transcriptase
  • cDNA complementary DNA
  • the RT and real-time PCR reactions are performed sequentially in the same sample well.
  • RT and real-time PCR reagents are obtained from Invitrogen (Carlsbad, Calif.). RT, real-time-PCR reactions are carried out by methods well known to those skilled in the art.
  • Gene (or RNA) target quantities obtained by real time PCR are normalized using either the expression level of a gene whose expression is constant, such as cyclophilin A, or by quantifying total RNA using RIBOGREEN® (Invitrogen, Inc. Carlsbad, Calif.). Cyclophilin A expression is quantified by real time PCR, by being run simultaneously with the target, multiplexing, or separately. Total RNA is quantified using RIBOGREEN® RNA quantification reagent (Invitrogen, Inc. Eugene, Oreg.). Methods of RNA quantification by RIBOGREEN® are taught in Jones, L. J., et al, (Analytical Biochemistry, 1998, 265, 368-374). A CYTOFLUOR® 4000 instrument (PE Applied Biosystems) is used to measure RIBOGREEN® fluorescence.
  • Probes and primers are designed to hybridize to a nrRNA sequence.
  • Methods for designing real-time PCR probes and primers are well known in the art, and can include the use of software such as PRIMER EXPRESS® Software (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, Calif.).
  • immunofluorescence can be used (see e.g, Example 26).
  • In situ hybridization can also be used to measure RNA.
  • Antisense inhibition of certain nrRNAs can be assessed by measuring associated protein levels. Protein levels can be evaluated or quantitated in a variety of ways well known in the art, such as immunoprecipitation, Western blot analysis (immunoblotting), enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), quantitative protein assays, protein activity assays (for example, caspase activity assays), immunohistochemistry, immunocytochemistry or fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS). Antibodies directed to a target can be identified and obtained from a variety of sources, such as the MSRS catalog of antibodies (Aerie Corporation, Birmingham, Mich.), or can be prepared via conventional monoclonal or polyclonal antibody generation methods well known in the art.
  • Antisense compounds for example, antisense oligonucleotides, are tested in animals to assess their ability to inhibit a nrRNA and produce phenotypic changes. Testing can be performed in normal animals, or in experimental disease models.
  • antisense oligonucleotides are formulated in a pharmaceutically acceptable diluent, such as phosphate-buffered saline. Administration includes parenteral routes of administration. Following a period of treatment with antisense oligonucleotides, RNA is isolated from tissue and changes in nrRNA levels or activity are measured. In certain embodiments, changes in associated protein levels are also measured.
  • provided herein are methods of treating an individual comprising administering one or more pharmaceutical compositions as described herein.
  • the individual has a disease or condition associated with a nuclear-retained RNA.
  • provided herein are methods for ameliorating a symptom associated with a disease or condition associated with a nuclear-retained RNA in an animal in need thereof.
  • a method for reducing the rate of onset of a symptom associated with a disease or condition associated with a nuclear-retained RNA In certain embodiments, provided is a method for reducing the severity of a symptom associated with a disease or condition associated with a nuclear-retained RNA.
  • the methods comprise administering to an individual in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of a compound targeted to a nrRNA.
  • administration of an antisense compound targeted to a nrRNA results in reduction of nrRNA levels by at least about 15%, at least about 20%, at least about 25%, at least about 30%, at least about 35%, at least about 40%, at least about 45%, at least about 50%, at least about 55%, at least about 60%, at least about 65%, at least about 70%, at least about 75%, at least about 80%, at least about 85%, at least about 90%, at least about 95% or at least about 99%, or a range defined by any two of these values.
  • compositions comprising an antisense compound targeted to a nrRNA are used for the preparation of a medicament for treating a patient suffering or susceptible to a disease or condition associated with a nuclear-retained RNA.
  • the compounds and compositions as described herein are administered parenterally.
  • parenteral administration is by injection.
  • the injection can be delivered with a syringe.
  • a first agent comprising the modified oligonucleotide of the invention is co-administered with one or more secondary agents.
  • such second agents are designed to treat the same a disease or condition associated with a nuclear-retained RNA as the first agent described herein.
  • such second agents are designed to treat a different disease, disorder, or condition as the first agent described herein.
  • such second agents are designed to treat an undesired side effect of one or more pharmaceutical compositions as described herein.
  • second agents are co-administered with the first agent to treat an undesired effect of the first agent.
  • second agents are co-administered with the first agent to produce a combinational effect.
  • second agents are co-administered with the first agent to produce a synergistic effect.
  • a first agent and one or more second agents are administered at the same time. In certain embodiments, the first agent and one or more second agents are administered at different times. In certain embodiments, the first agent and one or more second agents are prepared together in a single pharmaceutical formulation. In certain embodiments, the first agent and one or more second agents are prepared separately.
  • the human primer probe set RTS2736 (forward sequence AAAGCAAGGTCTCCCCACAAG, designated herein as SEQ ID NO: 89; reverse sequence TGAAGGGTCTGTGCTAGATCAAAA, designated herein as SEQ ID NO: 90; probe sequence TGCCACATCGCCACCCCGTX, designated herein as SEQ ID NO: 91) was used to quantitated MALAT1 RNA.
  • MALAT1 RNA transcript levels were adjusted according to total RNA content, as measured by RIBOGREEN®. Results are presented as percent inhibition of MALAT1, relative to untreated control cells.
  • the antisense oligonucleotides in Table 3 are 5-10-5 gapmers, where the gap segment comprises ten 2′-deoxynucleosides and each wing segment comprises five 2′-MOE nucleosides. Each nucleotide in the 5′ wing segment and each nucleotide in the 3′ wing segment has a 2′-MOE modification.
  • the internucleoside linkages throughout each gapmer are phosphorothioate (P ⁇ S) linkages. All cytidine residues throughout each gapmer are 5-methylcytidines.
  • ‘Target start site’ indicates the 5′-most nucleotide to which the antisense oligonucleotide is targeted.
  • Target stop site indicates the 3′-most nucleotide to which the antisense oligonucleotide is targeted. All the antisense oligonucleotides listed in Table 3 target SEQ ID NO: 1 (GENBANK Accession No. EF177381).
  • Antisense oligonucleotides targeted to a MALAT1 nucleic acid were tested for their effects on MALAT1 RNA in vitro.
  • Cultured A549 cells at a density of 5,000 cells per well were transfected using Lipofectin reagent with 150 nM antisense oligonucleotide. After approximately 24 hours, RNA was isolated from the cells and MALAT1 RNA transcript levels were measured by quantitative real-time PCR. Human primer probe set RTS2736 was used to quantitate MALAT1 RNA.
  • MALAT1 RNA transcript levels were adjusted according to total RNA content, as measured by RIBOGREEN®. Results are presented as percent inhibition of MALAT1, relative to untreated control cells.
  • the antisense oligonucleotides in Table 4 are 5-10-5 gapmers, where the gap segment comprises ten 2′-deoxynucleosides and each wing segment comprises five 2′-MOE nucleosides. Each nucleotide in the 5′ wing segment and each nucleotide in the 3′ wing segment has a 2′-MOE modification.
  • the internucleoside linkages throughout each gapmer are phosphorothioate (P ⁇ S) linkages. All cytidine residues throughout each gapmer are 5-methylcytidines.
  • ‘Target start site’ indicates the 5′-most nucleotide to which the antisense oligonucleotide is targeted.
  • Target stop site indicates the 3′-most nucleotide to which the antisense oligonucleotide is targeted. All the antisense oligonucleotides listed in Table 4 target SEQ ID NO: 1 (GENBANK Accession No. EF177381).
  • Probe set RTS 2738 has forward sequence of GAATTGCGTCATTTAAAGCCTAGTT, SEQ ID NO: 111; reverse sequence of TCATCCTACCACTCCCAATTAATCT, SEQ ID NO: 112; and a probe sequence of ACGCATTTACTAAACGCAGACGAAAATGGAX, SEQ ID NO: 113.
  • Probe set RTS 2739 has a forward sequence of AGGCGTTGTGCGTAGAGGAT, SEQ ID NO: 114; a reverse sequence of AAAGGTTACCATAAGTAAGTTCCAGAAAA, SEQ ID NO: 115; and a probe sequence of AGTGGTTGGTAAAAATCCGTGAGGTCGGX, SEQ ID NO: 116.
  • Results are presented in Tables 6 and 7 as percent inhibition of MALAT1, relative to untreated control cells.
  • Human MALAT1 primer probe set RTS2736 and RTS2738 were used to measure RNA transcript levels.
  • MALAT1 RNA transcript levels were adjusted according to total RNA content, as measured by RIBOGREEN®. Results are presented as percent inhibition of MALAT1, relative to untreated control cells. As illustrated in Tables 8 and 9, MALAT1 RNA transcript levels were reduced in a dose-dependent manner.
  • MALAT1 RNA transcript levels were adjusted according to total RNA content, as measured by RIBOGREEN®. Results are presented as percent inhibition of MALAT1, relative to untreated control cells. As illustrated in Table 10, MALAT1 RNA transcript levels were reduced in a dose-dependent manner.
  • siRNAs specific for human MALAT1 RNA transcript were tested at various doses in the HeLa cell line.
  • Cells were plated at a density of 5,000 cells per well and transfected using LipofectAMINE2000® reagent with 0.78 nM, 1.56 nM, 3.13 nM, 6.25 nM, 12.5 nM, 25 nM, 50 nM, 100 nM concentrations of each siRNA. After incubation for approximately 4 hours, transfection media was discarded, fresh media added, and the cells were further incubated for 18 hours.
  • RNA was isolated from the cells and MALAT1 RNA transcript levels were measured by quantitative real-time PCR. Primer probe set RTS2739 was used to measure RNA transcript levels. Table 12 presents the results of inhibition compared to untreated control cells.
  • Antisense oligonucleotides ISIS 395251 (CCAGGCTGGTTATGACTCAG; target site 3338), incorporated herein as SEQ ID NO: 96; ISIS 399462 (GGGTCAGCTGCCAATGCTAG, target site 1280), incorporated herein as SEQ ID NO: 117; ISIS 399479 (CGGTGCAAGGCTTAGGAATT, target site 4004), incorporated herein as SEQ ID NO: 118; ISIS 399488 (TTACCCTAGATGTTTAGCCA, target site 4621), incorporated herein as SEQ ID NO: 119; ISIS 399495 (GAAAATGGCATGTCTGCTTC, target site 120), incorporated herein as SEQ ID NO: 120; ISIS 399462 (GGGTCAGCTGCCAATGCTAG, target site 1280), incorporated herein as SEQ ID NO: 117; ISIS 395290 (TAAGATGCTAGCTTGGCCAA, target site 6552), incorporated herein as SEQ ID NO: 121;
  • 3144 — 097A, designated herein as SEQ ID NO: 125) were tested at various doses.
  • b.END cells were plated at a density of 4,000 cells per well and transfected using Cytofectin reagent with 3.125 nM, 6.25 nM, 12.5 nM, 25 nM, 50 nM, and 100 nM concentrations of each antisense oligonucleotide.
  • MALAT1 RNA transcript levels were normalized to total RNA content, as measured by RIBOGREEN®. Results are presented in Table 13 as percent inhibition of MALAT1, relative to untreated control cells.
  • All the gapmers of Table 13 are 5-10-5 gapmers, where the gap segment comprises ten 2′-deoxynucleosides and each wing segment comprises five 2′-MOE nucleosides.
  • the internucleoside linkages throughout each gapmer are phosphorothioate (P ⁇ S) linkages. All cytidine residues throughout each gapmer are 5-methylcytidines.
  • b.END cells were treated with 8 ⁇ g/mL of actinomycin D over a period of 10 hours. Another set of cells were treated with 75 ⁇ M 5,6-dichloro-1- ⁇ -D-ribofuranosyl-benzimidazole (DRB) for the same time period. Both RNA synthesis inhibitors gave similar results, as presented in Table 14. Table 14 presents the percent mRNA levels compared to the PBS control after treatment with actinomycin D or DRB at different time points. The data demonstrates that the MALAT1 RNA does not get degraded and is therefore stable for the period of treatment.
  • DRB 5,6-dichloro-1- ⁇ -D-ribofuranosyl-benzimidazole
  • Antisense oligonucleotides, ISIS 5, ISIS 6, ISIS 7, ISIS 8, ISIS 9, ISIS 10, ISIS 11, ISIS 12, ISIS 13, and ISIS 14 targeting ‘Target 3’ gene sequence were tested at various doses.
  • b.END cells were plated at a density of 4,000 cells per well and transfected using Cytofectin reagent with 6.25 nM, 12.5 nM, 25 nM, 50 nM, 100 nM, and 200 nM concentrations of each antisense oligonucleotide. After approximately 16 hours, RNA was isolated from the cells and ‘Target 3’ RNA transcript levels were measured by quantitative real-time PCR. ‘Target 3’ RNA transcript levels were normalized to total RNA content, as measured by RIBOGREEN®. Results are presented in Table 15 as percent inhibition of ‘Target 3’, relative to untreated control cells.
  • Antisense oligonucleotides, ISIS F, ISIS G, ISIS H , ISIS I, ISIS J, ISIS K, ISIS L, ISIS M, ISIS N, and ISIS O targeting ‘Target 4’ mRNA were tested at various doses.
  • b.END cells were plated at a density of 4,000 cells per well and transfected using Cytofectin reagent with 1.4063 nM, 2.8125 nM, 5.625 nM, 11.25 nM, 22.5 nM and 45 nM concentrations of each antisense oligonucleotide. After approximately 16 hours, RNA was isolated from the cells and ‘Target 4’ RNA transcript levels were measured by quantitative real-time PCR. ‘Target 4’ RNA transcript levels were normalized to total RNA content, as measured by RIBOGREEN®. Results are presented in Table 16 as percent inhibition of ‘Target 4’, relative to untreated control cells.
  • All the gapmers of Tables 15 and 16 are 5-10-5 gapmers, where the gap segment comprises ten 2′-deoxynucleosides and each wing segment comprises five 2′-MOE nucleosides.
  • the internucleoside linkages throughout each gapmer are phosphorothioate (P ⁇ S) linkages. All cytidine residues throughout each gapmer are 5-methylcytidines.
  • b.END cells were treated with 8 ⁇ g/mL of actinomycin D over a period of 9 hours. Another set of cells were treated with 75 ⁇ M 5,6-dichloro-1- ⁇ -D-ribofuranosyl-benzimidazole (DRB) for the same time period. Both RNA synthesis inhibitors gave similar results, as presented in Tables 17 and 18. Tables 17 and 18 present the percent mRNA levels compared to the PBS control after treatment with actinomycin D or DRB at different time points. The data demonstrates that ‘Target 3’ mRNA has significantly less stability than ‘Target 4’ mRNA.
  • b.END cells were treated with 8 ⁇ g/mL of actinomycin D over a period of 10 hours. Another set of cells were treated with 75 ⁇ M 5,6-dichloro-1- ⁇ -D-ribofuranosyl-benzimidazole (DRB) for the same time period. Both RNA synthesis inhibitors gave similar results, as presented in Table 19. Table 19 presents the percent mRNA levels compared to the PBS control after treatment with actinomycin D or DRB at different time points. The data demonstrates that SR-B1 mRNA does not get significantly degraded upto 10 hours of the treatment and is therefore stable for the period of treatment.
  • DRB 5,6-dichloro-1- ⁇ -D-ribofuranosyl-benzimidazole
  • Antisense oligonucleotides, ISIS 1, ISIS 2, ISIS 3, and ISIS 4, targeting ‘Target 1’ mRNA were tested at various doses.
  • HUVEC cells were plated at a density of 5,000 cells per well and transfected using LipoectAMINE2000® reagent with 0.0069 nM, 0.0206 nM, 0.0617 nM, 0.1852 nM, 0.5556 nM, 1.6667 nM, 5 nM and 15 nM concentrations of each antisense oligonucleotide.
  • RNA was isolated from the cells and ‘Target 1’ RNA transcript levels were measured by quantitative real-time PCR.
  • ‘Target 1’ RNA transcript levels were normalized to total RNA content, as measured by RIBOGREEN®. Results are presented in Table 20 as percent inhibition of ‘Target 1’, relative to untreated control cells.
  • Antisense oligonucleotides, ISISA, ISIS B, ISIS C, ISIS D, and ISIS E targeting ‘Target 2’ mRNA were tested at various doses.
  • HUVEC cells were plated at a density of 5,000 cells per well and transfected using LipoectAMINE2000® reagent with 0.6173 nM, 1.8519 nM, 5:5556 nM, 16.6667 nM, 50 nM and 150 nM concentrations of each antisense oligonucleotide. After approximately 16 hours, RNA was isolated from the cells and ‘Target 2’ RNA transcript levels were measured by quantitative real-time PCR.
  • RNA transcript levels were normalized to total RNA content, as measured by RIBOGREEN®. Results are presented in Table 21 as percent inhibition of ‘Target 2’, relative to untreated control cells.
  • All the gapmers of Tables 20 and 21 are 2-13-5 gapmers, where the gap segment comprises thirteen 2′-deoxynucleosides and the 5′ wing segment comprises two 2′-MOE nucleosides and the 3′ wing segment comprises five 2′-MOE nucleosides.
  • the internucleoside linkages throughout each gapmer are phosphorothioate (P ⁇ S) linkages. All cytidine residues throughout each gapmer are 5-methylcytidines.
  • HUVEC cells were treated with 8 ⁇ g/mL of actinomycin D over a period of 9 hours. Another set of cells were treated with 75 ⁇ M 5,6-dichloro-1- ⁇ -D-ribofuranosyl-benzimidazole (DRB) for the same time period. Another set of cells were 30 ⁇ g/mL of ⁇ -amanitin for the same time period.
  • DRB 5,6-dichloro-1- ⁇ -D-ribofuranosyl-benzimidazole
  • Another set of cells were 30 ⁇ g/mL of ⁇ -amanitin for the same time period.
  • mRNA was harvested and ‘Target 1’ or ‘Target 2’ mRNA levels were quantified by RT-PCR. All three RNA synthesis inhibitors gave similar results, as presented in Tables 22 and 23.
  • Table 22 presents the percent mRNA levels compared to the PBS control after treatment with actinomycin D or DRB at different time points.
  • Table 23 presents the percent mRNA levels compared to the PBS control after treatment with DRB and ⁇ -amanitin at different time points. Based on the results from the two different assays, the half-life of ‘Target 2’ mRNA is calculated to be within 2-4 hours. The half-life of ‘Target 1’ mRNA could not be calculated with the available data and is therefore beyond 9 hours. Therefore, the data in Tables 22 and 23 demonstrates that the ‘Target 2’ mRNA has significantly less stability than ‘Target 1’ mRNA.
  • RNA stability of the non-nuclear-retained target molecule, STAT3 was studied.
  • Antisense oligonucleotides ISIS 337332 (GAAGCCCTTGCCAGCCATGT, designated herein as SEQ ID NO: 129), ISIS 345785 (TGCCTCCTCCTTGGGAATGT, designated herein as SEQ ID NO: 130), ISIS 455269 (GCTTAGATTCTCCTTAAACC, designated herein as SEQ ID NO: 131), ISIS 455271 (AAATGCTTAGATTCTCCTTA, designated herein as SEQ ID NO: 132), ISIS 455272 (TAAAATGCTTAGATTCTCCT, designated herein as SEQ ID NO: 133), ISIS 455291 (CAGCAGATCAAGTCCAGGGA, designated herein as SEQ ID NO: 134), ISIS 455370 (TAGGTGTTCCCATACGCACA, designated herein as SEQ ID NO: 135), ISIS 455371 (GCTAGGTGTTCCCATACGCA, designated herein as SEQ ID NO: 136), ISIS 455391 (TCAACTGTCTCCAGGC
  • HUVEC cells were plated at a density of 5,000 cells per well and transfected using Lipofectamine2000® reagent with 1.111 nM, 3.333 nM, 10 nM, and 30 nM concentrations of each antisense oligonucleotide. After approximately 16 hours, RNA was isolated from the cells and STAT3 RNA transcript levels were measured by quantitative real-time PCR. STAT3 RNA transcript levels were normalized to total RNA content, as measured by RIBOGREEN®. Results are presented in Table 24 as percent inhibition of STAT3, relative to untreated control cells.
  • All the gapmers of Table 24 are 5-10-5 gapmers, where the gap segment comprises ten 2′-deoxynucleosides and each wing segment comprises five 2′-MOE nucleosides.
  • the internucleoside linkages throughout each gapmer are phosphorothioate (P′S) linkages. All cytidine residues throughout each gapmer are 5-methylcytidines.
  • HUVEC cells were treated with 8 ⁇ g/mL of actinomycin D over a period of 10 hours. Another set of cells were treated with 75 ⁇ M 5,6-dichloro-1- ⁇ -D-ribofuranosyl-benzimidazole (DRB) for the same time period. Both RNA synthesis inhibitors gave similar results, as presented in Table 25. Table 25 presents the percent mRNA levels compared to the PBS control after treatment with actinomycin D or DRB at different time points. The data demonstrates that STAT3 mRNA does not get degraded and is therefore stable for the period of treatment.
  • DRB 5,6-dichloro-1- ⁇ -D-ribofuranosyl-benzimidazole
  • ISIS 395251 (CCAGGCTGGTTATGACTCAG; target site 3338), incorporated herein as SEQ ID NO: 96; ISIS 399462 (GGGTCAGCTGCCAATGCTAG, target site 1280), incorporated herein as SEQ ID NO: 117; ISIS 399479 (CGGTGCAAGGCTTAGGAATT, target site 4004), incorporated herein as SEQ ID NO: 118; and ISIS 399484 (ACAAGTACATTGGAGCACAT, target site 4206), incorporated herein as SEQ ID NO: 124; all targeting murine MALAT1 RNA transcript (GENBANK Accession No. 3144 — 097A, designated herein as SEQ ID NO: 125) and which demonstrated statistically significant dose-dependent inhibition in vitro, were evaluated for their ability to reduce murine MALAT1 RNA transcript in vivo.
  • ASOs Antisense oligonucleotides
  • PBS buffered saline
  • mice were divided into six treatment groups.
  • the first four groups received intraperitoneal injections of ISIS 395251, ISIS 399462, ISIS 399479, or ISIS 399484 at a dose of 50 mg/kg twice per week for 3 weeks.
  • the fifth group received intraperitoneal injections of control oligonucleotide ISIS 141923 at a dose of 50 mg/kg twice weekly for 3 weeks.
  • the sixth group received intraperitoneal injections of saline twice weekly for 3 weeks.
  • the saline-injected group served as the control group to which the oligonucleotide-treated group was compared.
  • liver tissue was isolated. Liver RNA was isolated for real-time PCR analysis of MALAT1. As presented in Table 26, treatment with antisense oligonucleotides reduced MALAT1 RNA transcript expression. The results are expressed as percent inhibition of MALAT1 RNA transcript, relative to the PBS control. The control oligonucleotide, ISIS 141923, did not demonstrate significant inhibition of MALAT1 RNA, as expected.
  • ISIS 399462 and ISIS 399479 which showed statistically significant in vivo inhibition of MALAT1, were further evaluated in a dose response study.
  • mice were injected with 10 mg/kg, 20 mg/kg, or 40 mg/kg of ISIS 399462 or ISIS 399479 twice a week for 3 weeks.
  • ISIS 141923 was injected in another group of mice at 50 mg/kg twice a week for 3 weeks.
  • a control group of mice was injected with PBS twice a week for 3 weeks.
  • ISIS 399462 which showed statistically significant in vivo inhibition of MALAT1, was further evaluated in a dose response study.
  • mice were injected with 12.5 mg/kg, 25 mg/kg, or 50 mg/kg of ISIS 399462 twice a week for 3.5 weeks.
  • a control group of mice was injected with PBS twice a week for 3.5 weeks.
  • ISIS 399462 achieved dose-dependent reduction of murine MALAT1 in all tissues over the PBS control. Results are presented as percent inhibition of MALAT1, relative to the PBS control.
  • MHT2W cells were plated at a density of 4,500 cells per well in a 96-well plate. The cells were treated the next day with 0.02 ⁇ M, 0.1 ⁇ M, 0.5 ⁇ M, 2.5 ⁇ M, and 10 ⁇ M concentrations of ISIS 15 (5-10-5 MOE gapmer targeting SR-B1), ISIS 19 (5-10-5 MOE gapmer targeting MALAT-1), ISIS 20 (5-10-5 MOE gapmer targeting MALAT-1), ISIS 21 (3-10-3 (S)-cEt gapmer targeting STAT3), or ISIS 22 (5-10-5 MOE gapmer targeting STAT3). After approximately 16 hours, RNA was isolated from the cells and target mRNA transcript levels were measured by quantitative real-time PCR. Each target mRNA transcript levels were normalized to total RNA content, as measured by RIBOGREEN®. Results are presented in Table 29 as percent inhibition of SR-B1 or PTEN, relative to untreated control cells.
  • the 5-10-5 gapmers in Table 29 are oligonucleotides where the gap segment comprises ten 2′-deoxynucleosides and each wing segment comprises five 2′-MOE nucleosides.
  • the internucleoside linkages throughout each gapmer are phosphorothioate (P ⁇ S) linkages. All cytidine residues throughout each gapmer are 5-methylcytidines.
  • the 3-10-3 gapmers are oligonucleotides where the gap segment comprises ten 2′-deoxynucleosides and each wing segment comprises three deoxynucleosides linked to (S)-cEt sugars.
  • SNB19 cells were plated at a density of 4,500 cells per well in a 96-well plate. The cells were treated the next day with 0.02 ⁇ M, 0.1 ⁇ M, 0.5 ⁇ M, 2.5 ⁇ M and 10 ⁇ M concentrations of ISIS 23 (5-10-5 MOE gapmer targeting STAT3), ISIS 21 (3-10-3 (S)-cEt gapmer targeting STAT3), ISIS 24 (5-10-5 MOE gapmer targeting STAT3), ISIS 20 (5-10-5 MOE gapmer targeting MALAT-1), or ISIS 25 (5-10-5 MOE gapmer targeting kinesin family member 11 or Eg5). After approximately 16 hours, RNA was isolated from the cells and target mRNA transcript levels were measured by quantitative real-time PCR. Each target mRNA transcript levels were normalized to total RNA content, as measured by RIBOGREEN®. Results are presented in Table 30 as percent inhibition of STAT3, MALAT-1 or Eg5, relative to untreated control cells.
  • U251 cells were plated at a density of 4,500 cells per well in a 96-well plate. The cells were treated the next day with 0.02 ⁇ M, 0.1 ⁇ M, 0.5 ⁇ M, 2.5 ⁇ M and 10 ⁇ M concentrations of ISIS 23 (5-10-5 MOE gapmer targeting STAT3), ISIS 21 (3-10-3 (S)-cEt gapmer targeting STAT3), ISIS 24 (5-10-5 MOE gapmer targeting STAT3), ISIS 20 (5-10-5 MOE gapmer targeting MALAT-1), or ISIS 25 (5-10-5 MOE gapmer targeting kinesin family member 11 or Eg5). After approximately 16 hours, RNA was isolated from the cells and target mRNA transcript levels were measured by quantitative real-time PCR. Each target mRNA transcript levels were normalized to total RNA content, as measured by RIBOGREEN®. Results are presented in Table 31 as percent inhibition of STAT3, MALAT-1 or Eg5, relative to untreated control cells.
  • the 5-10-5 gapmers in Tables 30 and 31 are oligonucleotides where the gap segment comprises ten 2′-deoxynucleosides and each wing segment comprises five 2′-MOE nucleosides.
  • the internucleoside linkages throughout each gapmer are phosphorothioate (P ⁇ S) linkages. All cytidine residues throughout each gapmer are 5-methylcytidines.
  • the 3-10-3 gapmers are oligonucleotides where the gap segment comprises ten 2′-deoxynucleosides and each wing segment comprises three deoxynucleosides linked to (S)-cEt sugars.
  • MHT2W tumor cells (1 ⁇ 10 6 , of human origin) were injected subcutaneously in female Balb/c nu/nu mice. After 4-7 days, ISIS 395251 (CCAGGCTGGTTATGACTCAG (SEQ ID NO: 96), targeting nuclear-retained RNA, MALAT1) or ISIS 383741 (GACTCTTGCAGGAATCGGCT (SEQ ID NO: 149), targeting non-nuclear-retained RNA, Stat3) at a dose of 50 mg/kg was injected intraperitoneally two times per week for a total of 7 doses. The mice were euthanized one day after the last dose.
  • mice were treated with ISIS 19 (5-10-5 MOE gapmer targeting MALAT-1), ISIS 23 (5-10-5 MOE gapmer targeting STAT3) or ISIS 15 (5-10-5 MOE gapmer targeting SR-B1) at a dose of 40 mg/kg injected intravenously daily for 4 days.
  • a control group of mice was injected with PBS intravenously daily for 4 days. The mice were euthanized one day after the last dose. Bone marrow and liver tissue was collected from the mice. CD45 + leukocytes were isolated from the bone marrow for analysis.
  • Table 33 presents the percent inhibition of the murine RNA transcript, relative to the PBS control.
  • the data demonstrates that antisense oligonucleotides targeting SR-B1 and STAT3, although potent in the liver, are not able to diffuse into tumor cells easily.
  • Antisense oligonucleotides targeting a nuclear-retained target, MALAT-1 were able to diffuse into the bone marrow cells and cause potent inhibition of target RNA.
  • Antisense oligonucleotides targeted to a human alpha1 skeletal actin nucleic acid were tested for their effect on alpha1 actin RNA transcript in vitro.
  • Cultured HepG2 cells at a density of 20,000 cells per well were transfected using electroporation with 10,000 nM antisense oligonucleotide. After approximately 24 hours, RNA was isolated from the cells and alpha1 actin RNA transcript levels were measured by quantitative real-time PCR. Alpha1 actin RNA transcript levels were adjusted according to total RNA content, as measured by RIBOGREEN®. Results are presented as percent inhibition of alpha1 actin, relative to untreated control cells.
  • the antisense oligonucleotides in Table 34 are 5-10-5 gapmers, where the gap segment comprises ten 2′-deoxynucleosides and each wing segment comprises five 2′-MOE nucleosides.
  • the internucleoside linkages throughout each gapmer are phosphorothioate (P ⁇ S) linkages. All cytidine residues throughout each gapmer are 5-methylcytidines.
  • Tiget start site indicates the 5′-most nucleotide to which the antisense oligonucleotide is targeted.
  • ‘Target stop site’ indicates the 3′-most nucleotide to which the antisense oligonucleotide is targeted. All the antisense oligonucleotides listed in Table 34 target SEQ ID NO: XXX (GENBANK Accession No. NM — 001100.3).
  • Alpha1 actin RNA transcript levels were normalized to total RNA content, as measured by RIBOGREEN®. Results are presented in Table 35 as percent inhibition of alpha1 actin, relative to untreated control cells.
  • HSA human skeletal actin
  • LR long repeat mice
  • the transgene is expressed in the mice as a CUG repeat RNA, which is retained in the nucleus, forming nuclear inclusions or foci, similar to that seen in human tissue samples of patients with myotonic dystrophy.
  • ISIS 190403, ISIS 445236 and ISIS 445238 which demonstrated statistically significant dose-dependent inhibition in vitro, were evaluated for their ability to reduce human alpha1 actin RNA transcript in vivo.
  • HSA LR mice were maintained on a 12-hour light/dark cycle and fed ad libitum normal Purina mouse chow. Animals were acclimated for at least 7 days in the research facility before initiation of the experiment.
  • Antisense oligonucleotides were prepared in PBS and sterilized by filtering through a 0.2 micron filter. Oligonucleotides were dissolved in 0.9% PBS for injection.
  • mice were divided into four treatment groups.
  • the first three groups received subcutaneous injections of ISIS 190403, ISIS 445236 or ISIS 445238 at a dose of 25 mg/kg twice per week for 4 weeks.
  • the fourth group received subcutaneous injections of PBS twice weekly for 4 weeks.
  • the PBS-injected group served as the control group to which the oligonucleotide-treated group was compared.
  • Frozen muscle tissue sections were fixed in fresh 3% paraformaldehyde in PBS solution for 15-20 minutes, after which they were rinsed twice with PBS for 5 minutes.
  • the nuclei were permeabilized with 0.5% Triton X-100 for 5 minutes after which the tissue was blocked with normal goat serum for 30 minutes.
  • the sections were incubated a 2′-O-methyl RNA targeted to alpha1 actin that is 5′-labeled with Texas Red (Integrated DNA Technologies).
  • the sections were counter-stained with DAPI to label the nuclei.
  • the sections were mounted and viewed with a standard fluorescence microscope. Image acquisition was by Metavue software and deconvolution was achieved by Autoquant software.
  • mice treated with ISIS 445236 and ISIS 445238 displayed reduced fluorescent intensity of alpha1 actin signal at the ribonuclear foci, indicating antisense inhibition of human alpha1 actin mRNA and reduction of the RNA in the nuclear foci.
  • Myotonia refers to repetitive action potential that is due to delayed relaxation of muscle fibers. This phenomenon is observed in patients of myotonic dystrophy as well as in the HSA LR mice. When the EMG needle is inserted into a myotonic muscle, the electrical activity is prolonged for up to several seconds past when the insertional activity should normally cease. The frequency of myotonic discharges ranges from 50 to 100 impulses per second.
  • Myotonia may be measured via electromyography and is graded in the following manner: grade 0 refers to no myotonia elicited by any needle insertion (0%); grade 1 refers to myotonia elicited by less than 50% needle insertions; grade 2 refers to myotonia elicited by more than 50% needle insertions; and grade 3 refers to mytonia elicited by 100% needle insertions.
  • mice were anesthetized by using i.p. 100 mg_kg ketamine, 10 mg_kg xylazine, and 3 mg_kg acepromazine or 250 mg_kg 2,2,2 tribromoethanol.
  • Electromyography on left and right quadriceps, left and right gastrocnemius muscles, left and right tibialis anterior muscles and lumbar paraspinals muscles was performed as previously described (Kanadia et al, 2003, Science, 302: 1978-1980) by using 30 gauge concentric needle electrodes and a minimum of 10 needle insertions for each muscle.
  • the data is presented in Table 37 as the average myotonia grade observed in four mice of each group and demonstrates significant reduction of myotonia in mice treated with ISIS 445236 and ISIS 445238.
  • HSA-short repeat mice express the identical transgene as the HSA LR mice, except that 5 instead of 250 CUG repeats are inserted in the 3′ UTR. HSA SR mice do not have myotonia, splicing changes, or any other observable myotonia phenotype. ISIS 445236 was used in this assay.
  • HSA LR mice were divided into four treatment groups. The first three groups received subcutaneous injections of ISIS 445236 at doses of 2.5 mg/kg, 8.5 mg/kg or 25 mg/kg twice per week for 4 weeks. The fourth group received subcutaneous injections of PBS twice per week for 4 weeks. The PBS-injected group served as the control group to which the oligonucleotide-treated group was compared. HSA SR mice were also divided into four groups and similarly treated.
  • mutant form of the DMPK mRNA harboring large CUG repeats, are fully transcribed and polyadenylated, but remained trapped in the nucleus (Davis et al, 1997, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 94, 7388-7393). These mutant nuclear-retained mRNA are one of the most important pathological features of myotonic dystrophy 1 (DM1). Antisense inhibition of mutant DMPK mRNA in DM1 fibroblast cells was studied.
  • DM1 fibroblast cells were plated at a density of 4,500 cells per well and transfected using Cytofectin reagent with 9.375 nM, 18.75 nM, 37.5 nM, 75 nM, 150 nM, and 300 nM concentrations of each antisense oligonucleotide.
  • DMPK RNA transcript levels were normalized to total RNA content, as measured by RIBOGREEN®. Results are presented in Table 41 as percent inhibition of DMPK, relative to untreated control cells.
  • primer probe set RTS3162 forward sequence CGGGCCGTCCGTGTT, designated herein as SEQ ID NO: 167; reverse sequence CTTTGCACTTTGCGAACCAA, designated herein as SEQ ID NO: 168; and probe sequence CATCCTCCACGCACCCCCACCX, designated herein as SEQ ID NO: 169
  • results are presented in Table 42 as percent inhibition of DMPK, relative to untreated control cells.
  • gapmers assayed are described in Table 40 and are 5-10-5 gapmers, where the gap segment comprises ten 2′-deoxynucleosides and each wing segment comprises five 2′-MOE nucleosides.
  • the internucleoside linkages throughout each gapmer are phosphorothioate (P ⁇ S) linkages.
  • All cytidine residues throughout each gapmer are 5-methylcytidines.
  • All the gapmers target SEQ ID NO: 170 (the complement of GENBANK Accession No. NT — 011109.15 truncated at nucleotides 18540696 to 18555106).
  • Target start site indicates the 5′-most nucleotide to which the antisense oligonucleotide is targeted.
  • Target stop site indicates the 3′-most nucleotide to which the antisense oligonucleotide is targeted.
  • LC15 mice, Line A are transgenic mice containing the entire human DMPK 3′UTR (developed by Wheeler et al, University of Rochester). The mice are the second generation of mice backcrossed to an FVB background. The transgene is expressed in the mice as a CUG repeat RNA, which is retained in the nucleus, forming nuclear inclusions or foci, similar to that seen in human tissue samples of patients with myotonic dystrophy (DM1). There are 350-400 CUG repeats in the DMPK transgene. These mice display early signs of DM1 and do not display any myotonia in their muscle tissues.
  • ISIS 445569, ISIS 444404, ISIS 444436 and ISIS 473810 which demonstrated statistically significant dose-dependent inhibition in vitro (see Example 5), were evaluated for their ability to reduce human DMPK RNA transcript in vivo.
  • LC15 Line A mice were maintained on a 12-hour light/dark cycle and fed ad libitum normal Purina mouse chow. Animals were acclimated for at least 7 days in the research facility before initiation of the experiment.
  • Antisense oligonucleotides were prepared in PBS and sterilized by filtering through a 0.2 micron filter. Oligonucleotides were dissolved in 0.9% PBS for injection.
  • mice were divided into five treatment groups.
  • the first three groups received subcutaneous injections of ISIS 445569, ISIS 444404 or ISIS 444436 at a dose of 25 mg/kg twice per week for 4 weeks.
  • the fourth group received subcutaneous injections of ISIS 473810 at a dose of 12.5 mg/kg twice per week for 4 weeks.
  • the fifth group received subcutaneous injections of PBS twice weekly for 4 weeks.
  • the PBS-injected group served as the control group to which the oligonucleotide-treated group was compared.
  • Electromyography on left and right quadriceps, left and right gastrocnemius muscles, left and right tibialis anterior muscles and lumbar paraspinals muscles was performed as previously described (Kanadia et al, 2003, Science, 302: 1978-1980) by using 30 gauge concentric needle electrodes and a minimum of 10 needle insertions for each muscle. Since LC15 mice do not have myotonia, neither the control group nor the treatment groups displayed any myotonia in any muscle tested.
  • mice, Line D are transgenic mice containing the entire human DMPK 3′UTR (developed by Wheeler et al, University of Rochester). The mice are the third generation of mice backcrossed to an FVB background. The transgene is expressed in the mice as a CUG repeat RNA, which is retained in the nucleus, forming nuclear inclusions or foci, similar to that seen in human tissue samples of patients with myotonic dystrophy (DM1). There are 350-400 CUG repeats in the DMPK transgene. These mice display early signs of DM1 and do not display any myotonia in their muscle tissues.
  • ISIS 445569, ISIS 444404, ISIS 444436 and ISIS 473810 were further evaluated for their ability to reduce human DMPK RNA transcript in vivo.
  • LC15 Line A mice were maintained on a 12-hour light/dark cycle and fed ad libitum normal Purina mouse chow. Animals were acclimated for at least 7 days in the research facility before initiation of the experiment.
  • Antisense oligonucleotides were prepared in PBS and sterilized by filtering through a 0.2 micron filter. Oligonucleotides were dissolved in 0.9% PBS for injection.
  • mice were divided into six treatment groups.
  • the first three groups received subcutaneous injections of ISIS 445569, ISIS 444404 or ISIS 444436 at a dose of 25 mg/kg twice per week for 4 weeks.
  • the fourth group received subcutaneous injections of ISIS 473810 at a dose of 12.5 mg/kg twice per week for 4 weeks.
  • the fifth group received subcutaneous injections of ISIS 473810 at a dose of 6.25 mg/kg twice per week for 4 weeks.
  • the sixth group received subcutaneous injections of PBS twice weekly for 4 weeks.
  • the PBS-injected group served as the control group to which the oligonucleotide-treated group was compared.
  • Electromyography on left and right quadriceps, left and right gastrocnemius muscles, left and right tibialis anterior muscles and lumbar paraspinals muscles was performed as previously described (Kanadia et al, 2003, Science, 302: 1978-1980) by using 30 gauge concentric needle electrodes and a minimum of 10 needle insertions for each muscle. Since LC15 mice do not have myotonia, neither the control group nor the treatment groups displayed any myotonia in any muscle tested.
  • hDMPK-targeting ASOs 444401 and 299471 target knockdown in soleus muscle was measured in SXL mice.
  • the SXL mouse is transgenic for the entire DMPK gene and promoter and contains a 1000 CUG repeat sequence in the 3′UTR of DMPK gene.
  • Results of Taqman assays are shown in FIG. 1 for mut-hDMPK mRNA ( FIG. 1A ) and endogenous mouse Dmpk mRNA ( FIG. 1B ).
  • ISIS 462026 (targeting U16) and ISIS 477499 (targeting U50), demonstrating significant inhibition of their respective snoRNAs, were tested in mice and the efficacy of the gapmers was evaluated.
  • mice Two groups of five seven-week old balb-c mice were each administered subcutaneously with 100 mg/kg of ISIS 462026 or ISIS 477499. Another group of five mice was injected with 100 mg/kg of control oligonucleotide ISIS 141923 (CCTTCCCTGAAGGTTCCTCC, designated herein as SEQ ID NO: 176). Another group of five mice were injected subcutaneously with PBS. The mice injected with PBS served as a control group. The mice were sacrificed 72 hours later and several tissues were harvested for target mRNA analysis. Tissues harvested were: liver, heart, spleen, white adipose tissue (WAT), kidney, and muscle.
  • WAT white adipose tissue
  • RNA from each of the various tissues was separately prepared using Tri-Reagent, based on the manufacturer's instructions. Five micrograms of total RNA was separated in 8% polyacrylamide-7M urea gels and was transferred onto a membrane, using semi-dry transfer apparatus. Northern hybridization was performed using U16 snoRNA-specific 5′-end labeled oligonucleotide probe (5′-TTGCTCAGTAAGAATTTTCG-3′, designated herein as SEQ ID NO: 177), and U50 snoRNA-specific 5′-end labeled oligonucleotide probe (5′-GGTTCGGGATAAGATCATCACA-3′, designated herein as SEQ ID NO: 178).
  • RNA from liver samples was pooled for each group and subjected to primer extension analysis to detect rRNA methylation at positions A485 in 18S rRNA, targeted by U16 snoRNA, or C2613 in 28S rRNA, targeted by U50 snoRNA.
  • the results are presented in Table 45 and demonstrate significant inhibition at 0.05 mM dNTP concentration, compared to the PBS control.
  • Antisense oligonucleotides were designed targeting lincRNA_SFPQE, lincRNA_p21, lincRNA_HOXA1, HOTAIR, PCGEM1, and MIAT mRNA sequences. The antisense oligonucleotides were tested in vitro. Various doses of antisense oligonucleotides were individually tested in various cells and the mRNA expression levels of the corresponding targets were analyzed by RT-PCR.
  • RNAs such as lincRNA_SFPQE, lincRNA_p21, lincRNA_HOXA1, HOTAIR, PCGEM1, and MIAT.

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