Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) is a common, inherited, incurable, fatal muscle wasting disease caused by deletions that disrupt the reading frame of the DMD gene such that no functional dystrophin protein is produced. Antisense oligonucleotide (AO)-directed exon skipping restores the reading frame of the DMD gene, and truncated, yet functional dystrophin protein is expressed. The aim of this study was to assess the efficiency of two novel rigid, cationic carotenoid lipids, C30-20 and C20-20, in the delivery of a phosphorodiamidate morpholino (PMO) AO, specifically designed for the targeted skipping of exon 45 of DMD mRNA in normal human skeletal muscle primary cells (hSkMCs). The cationic carotenoid lipid/PMO-AO lipoplexes yielded significant exon 45 skipping relative to a known commercial lipid, 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-ethylphosphocholine (EPC).
杜氏肌营养不良症(Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy,
DMD)是一种常见、遗传性且无法治愈的致命肌肉萎缩疾病,由破坏
DMD
基因阅读框架的缺失引起,导致无法产生功能性dystrophin蛋白。反义寡核苷酸(antisense oligonucleotide, AO)介导的剪接位点跳跃可以恢复
DMD
基因的阅读框架,并表达截短但具有功能的dystrophin蛋白。本研究的目的是评估两种新型刚性阳离子类
胡萝卜素脂质C30-20和C20-20在正常人骨骼肌原代细胞(human skeletal muscle primary cells, hSkMCs)中递送针对
DMD mRNA外显子45跳跃设计的
磷酸二酰胺吗啉(phosphorodiamidate MOrpholino, PMO)AO的效率。阳离子类
胡萝卜素脂质/PMO-AO脂质体复合物相对于已知的商业脂质
1,2-二肉豆蔻酰-sn-甘油-3-乙基
磷酰
胆碱(1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-ethylphosphocholine, EPC)显著提高了外显子45的跳跃效率。