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Regulatory RNA inhibition in human phagocytes using cell-penetrating PNA oligonucleotides

ABSTRACT: Here, we determined the ability of peptide nucleic acid (PNA) oligomers, coupled to different cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs), to interfere in regulatory RNA circuits of human blood-derived leukocytes. Using RNA-seq, FACS and confocal microscopy we identified octaarginin as a CPP enabling PNA delivery and sequence-dependent RNA inhibition in blood-derived myeloid cells at nanomolar concentration. At 200 nM, an R8-PNA targeting immune-regulatory microRNA-155 was delivered into nearly 100 % of human macrophages within 24 hours without apparent cytotoxicity, and globally de-repressed microRNA-155 target-mRNAs. This was not observed when coupling the PNA inhibitor to a K3 instead of the R8 peptide. We suggest that CPP choice is a fundamental success-determining factor for therapeutic RNA-inhibition in human myeloid leukocytes.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE152740 | GEO | 2021/03/01

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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