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Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015

Filed:

Apr. 04, 2014
Applicant:

Santaris Pharma A/s, Hørsholm, DK;

Inventors:

Joacim Elmén, Malmö, SE;

Phil Kearney, Picton, AU;

Sakari Kauppinen, Smørum, DK;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07H 21/04 (2006.01); C12N 15/113 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 15/113 (2013.01); C12N 2310/113 (2013.01); C12N 2310/321 (2013.01); C12N 2310/322 (2013.01); C12N 2310/3231 (2013.01); C12N 2310/3515 (2013.01);
Abstract

The invention provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising short single stranded oligonucleotides, of length of between 8 and 26 nucleobases which are complementary to human microRNAs selected from the group consisting of miR19b, miR21, miR122a, miR155 and miR375. The short oligonucleotides are particularly effective at alleviating miRNA repression in vivo. It is found that the incorporation of high affinity nucleotide analogs into the oligonucleotides results in highly effective anti-microRNA molecules which appear to function via the formation of almost irreversible duplexes with the miRNA target, rather than RNA cleavage based mechanisms, such as mechanisms associated with RNaseH or RISC.


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