Immortalized Canine Dystrophic Myoblast Cell Lines for Development of Peptide-Conjugated Splice-Switching Oligonucleotides

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a severe muscle-wasting disease caused by frameshift or nonsense mutations in the DMD gene, resulting in the loss of dystrophin from muscle membranes. Exon skipping using splice-switching oligonucleotides (SSOs) restores the reading frame of DMD pre-mRNA by generating internally truncated but functional dystrophin protein. To potentiate effective tissue-specific targeting by functional SSOs, it is essential to perform accelerated and reliable in vitro screening-based assessment of novel oligonucleotides and drug delivery technologies, such as cell-penetrating peptides, before their in vivo pharmacokinetic and toxicity evaluation. We have established novel canine immortalized myoblast lines by transducing murine cyclin-dependent kinase-4 and human telomerase reverse transcriptase genes into myoblasts isolated from beagle-based wild-type or canine X-linked muscular dystrophy in Japan (CXMDJ) dogs. These myoblast lines exhibited improved myogenic differentiation and increased proliferation rates compared with passage-15 primary parental myoblasts, and their potential to differentiate into myotubes was maintained in later passages. Using these dystrophin-deficient immortalized myoblast lines, we demonstrate that a novel cell-penetrating peptide (Pip8b2)-conjugated SSO markedly improved multiexon skipping activity compared with the respective naked phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomers. In vitro screening using immortalized canine cell lines will provide a basis for further pharmacological studies on drug delivery tools.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:31

Enthalten in:

Nucleic acid therapeutics - 31(2021), 2 vom: 01. Apr., Seite 172-181

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tone, Yuichiro [VerfasserIn]
Mamchaoui, Kamel [VerfasserIn]
Tsoumpra, Maria K [VerfasserIn]
Hashimoto, Yasumasa [VerfasserIn]
Terada, Reiko [VerfasserIn]
Maruyama, Rika [VerfasserIn]
Gait, Michael J [VerfasserIn]
Arzumanov, Andrey A [VerfasserIn]
McClorey, Graham [VerfasserIn]
Imamura, Michihiro [VerfasserIn]
Takeda, Shin'ichi [VerfasserIn]
Yokota, Toshifumi [VerfasserIn]
Wood, Matthew J A [VerfasserIn]
Mouly, Vincent [VerfasserIn]
Aoki, Yoshitsugu [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

140-kDa dystrophin
Canine X-linked muscular dystrophy in Japan (CXMDJ)
Cell-penetrating peptide
Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 4
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Dystrophin
EC 2.7.11.22
EC 2.7.7.49
Immortalized dystrophic canine myoblast
Journal Article
Morpholinos
Oligonucleotides, Antisense
Peptides
Phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer
RNA Splice Sites
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Splice-switching oligonucleotides
Telomerase

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Date Completed 22.11.2021

Date Revised 15.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1089/nat.2020.0907

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM321273567