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Yan-Li Li1, Jacques Vergne, Claire Torchet
1Institut Jacques-Monod, Laboratoire de Biochimie de l'Evolution et Adaptabilité Moléculaire, UPMC Université Paris 06, Paris, France.
Abstract:
Hairpin ribozymes possess the properties of RNA sequence-specific recognition and site-specific cleavage. These properties make them a powerful extension of the antisense approach for the inhibition of gene expression. From a randomized RNA pool of hairpin ribozymes, using the systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment, we have obtained an adenine-dependent hairpin ribozyme, Tpl2/Cot (tumour progression locus 2) ribozyme, which cleaves the Tpl2/Cot kinase mRNA sequence at nucleotides A225/G226 relative to the start codon of translation. This serine/threonine kinase activates the mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway implicated in cell proliferation in cancer. The selected 'Tpl2/Cot-YL ribozyme' efficiently cleaves its target sequence in cis and in trans; furthermore, the ribozyme efficiently cleaves a longer target sequence of 54 nucleotides in trans, as well as the full-length mRNA.
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