Antisense Technology

'Switching' of Key Gene Demonstrated

Published in Vaccine Weekly, November 22nd, 1999

In the November 1, 1999, issue of Nature Biotechnology, scientists from Isis Pharmaceuticals, Carlsbad, California, published results from a study that could lead to the development of new drugs to treat cancer and drugs that could enhance current chemotherapy treatments.

Isis scientists successfully used an antisense oligonucleotide to both increase and decrease the levels of two functionally antagonistic proteins encoded by the Bcl-x gene, one of which is involved in the development of resistance in human tumors to chemotherapeutic agents used to treat cancer. Isis's antisense drugs exploiting this newly found mechanism and inhibiting Bcl-x have the potential to be...

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