Morita Koji, Yamate Koji, Kurakata Shin-ichi, Watanabe Kenji, Imanishi Takeshi, Koizumi Makoto
Exploratory Chemistry Research Laboratories, Sankyo Co., Limited, Tokyo, Japan.
Nucleosides Nucleotides Nucleic Acids. 2003 May-Aug;22(5-8):1619-21. doi: 10.1081/NCN-120023082.
ENA antisense oligonucleotides for vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) mRNA were synthesized and evaluated in A549 lung cancer cells. It was found that the VEGF ENA-antisense inhibited not only the expression of VEGF, but also the expression of three genes, which were found in Genbank by BLAST and Clustal W search and considered likely to bind to the VEGF ENA-antisense. These results indicate that ENA-antisense oligonucleotides act in a sequence-specific manner, and could be used as effective antisense drugs.