National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Company, Limited

Hirotake Hayashi

Hidekazu Toyobuku

Hideki Ohba

Takanori Kubo

An object of the present invention is to provide a novel double-stranded RNA that has high resistance to nuclease and cellular uptake efficiency and that can produce an excellent RNA interference effect. The present invention provides a double-stranded lipid-modified RNA comprising an antisense strand having a nucleotide sequence complementary to a target sequence in a target gene, and a sense strand having a nucleotide sequence complementary to the antisense strand, the double-stranded RNA being capable of suppressing the expression of the target gene, and the sense strand having a double-stranded lipid bound directly or via a linker to at least one of the first to sixth nucleotides from the 5' end.

Double-stranded lipid-modified RNA having high RNA interference effect

An object of the present invention is to provide a novel double-stranded RNA that has high nuclease resistance and high cellular uptake efficiency, and that is capable of producing an excellent RNA interference effect. The present invention provides a lipid-modified double-stranded RNA comprising a sense strand having a nucleotide sequence complementary to a target sequence, and an antisense strand having a nucleotide sequence complementary to the sense strand, the double-stranded RNA being capable of inhibiting the expression of the target gene, the sense strand having a lipid linked to at least one of the first to sixth nucleotides from the 5' end side directly or via a linker.

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Hirotake Hayashi