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Title: | Properties of Parallel Tetramolecular G-Quadruplex Carrying N-Acetylgalactosamine as Potential Enhancer for Oligonucleotide Delivery to Hepatocytes |
Author: | Clua, Anna Grijalvo, Santiago Erande, Namrata Gupta, Swati Yucius, Kristina Gargallo Gómez, Raimundo Mazzini, Stefania Manoharan, Muthiah Eritja i Casadellà, Ramon |
Keywords: | Oligonucleòtids ADN Molècules Oligonucleotides DNA Molecules |
Issue Date: | 20-Jun-2022 |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Abstract: | The development of oligonucleotide conjugates for in vivo targeting is one of the most exciting areas for oligonucleotide therapeutics. A major breakthrough in this field was the development of multifunctional GalNAc-oligonucleotides with high affinity to asialoglycoprotein receptors (ASGPR) that directed therapeutic oligonucleotides to hepatocytes. In the present study, we explore the use of G-rich sequences functionalized with one unit of GalNAc at the 3′-end for the formation of tetrameric GalNAc nanostructures upon formation of a parallel G-quadruplex. These compounds are expected to facilitate the synthetic protocols by providing the multifunctionality needed for the binding to ASGPR. To this end, several G-rich oligonucleotides carrying a TGGGGGGT sequence at the 3′-end functionalized with one molecule of N-acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc) were synthesized together with appropriate control sequences. The formation of a self-assembled parallel G-quadruplex was confirmed through various biophysical techniques such as circular dichroism, nuclear magnetic resonance, polyacrylamide electrophoresis and denaturation curves. Binding experiments to ASGPR show that the size and the relative position of the therapeutic cargo are critical for the binding of these nanostructures. The biological properties of the resulting parallel G-quadruplex were evaluated demonstrating the absence of the toxicity in cell lines. The internalization preferences of GalNAc-quadruplexes to hepatic cells were also demonstrated as well as the enhancement of the luciferase inhibition using the luciferase assay in HepG2 cell lines versus HeLa cells. All together, we demonstrate that tetramerization of G-rich oligonucleotide is a novel and simple route to obtain the beneficial effects of multivalent N-acetylgalactosamine functionalization |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27123944 |
It is part of: | Molecules, 2022, vol. 27, num. 12, p. 3944 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/189558 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27123944 |
ISSN: | 1420-3049 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Enginyeria Química i Química Analítica) |
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