Quimera de morfolino-siRNA ligado al guanidinium: síntesis, propiedades biofísicas y actividad in vitro

Shalini Gupta1, Atanu Ghosh1, Subhamoy Pratihar1

  • 1School of Applied and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700032, India. ocss5@iacs.res.in.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
|August 22, 2025
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores desarrollaron ARN morfolino de guanidinium (ARN-OGM), un nuevo análogo de ARN que mejora la entrada celular, la estabilidad y el silenciamiento de genes. Las quimeras de OGM-ARN son prometedoras para aplicaciones terapéuticas, particularmente en el tratamiento del cáncer.

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