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. 1995 Aug 29;92(18):8298–8302. doi: 10.1073/pnas.92.18.8298

Toward the therapeutic editing of mutated RNA sequences.

T M Woolf 1, J M Chase 1, D T Stinchcomb 1
PMCID: PMC41144  PMID: 7545300

Abstract

If RNA editing could be rationally directed to mutated RNA sequences, genetic diseases caused by certain base substitutions could be treated. Here we use a synthetic complementary RNA oligonucleotide to direct the correction of a premature stop codon mutation in dystrophin RNA. The complementary RNA oligonucleotide was hybridized to a premature stop codon and the hybrid was treated with nuclear extracts containing the cellular enzyme double-stranded RNA adenosine deaminase. When the treated RNAs were translated in vitro, a dramatic increase in expression of a downstream luciferase coding region was observed. The cDNA sequence data are consistent with deamination of the adenosine in the UAG stop codon to inosine by double-stranded RNA adenosine deaminase. Injection of oligonucleotide-mRNA hybrids into Xenopus embryos also resulted in an increase in luciferase expression. These experiments demonstrate the principle of therapeutic RNA editing.

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