Treatment of Adiponectin (ADIPOQ) related diseases by inhibition of natural antisense transcript to an Adiponectin (ADIPOQ)

• US 9,909,126 B2
• Filed: 02/23/2016
• Issued: 03/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CURNA, Inc. (Opko Health, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: CURNA, Inc. (Opko Health, Inc.)
• Inventors: Collard, Joseph, Khorkova Sherman, Olga
• Primary Examiner(s): Chong, Kimberly
• Application Number:
  US15/050,577
• Publication Number:
  US 20160168568A1
• Time in Patent Office: 742 Days
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Abstract

The present invention relates to antisense oligonucleotides that modulate the expression of and/or function of an Adiponectin (ADIPOQ), in particular, by targeting natural antisense polynucleotides of an Adiponectin (ADIPOQ). The invention also relates to the identification of these antisense oligonucleotides and their use in treating diseases and disorders associated with the expression of Adiponectins (ADIPOQ)s.

Claims

1. A method of testing at least one modified antisense oligonucleotide of 10-30 nucleotides in length for modulatory activity of a target Adiponectin mRNA polynucleotide comprising:

selecting said target Adiponectin polynucleotide;

identifying at least one natural antisense polynucleotide of said target Adioponectin mRNA polynucleotide;

identifying at least one modified antisense oligonucleotide which are complementary to said at least one natural antisense polynucleotide of the selected target Adiponectin mRNA polynucleotide;

measuring, in vitro, the thermal melting point of a hybrid of the modified antisense oligonucleotide and the at least one natural antisense polynucleotide under stringent hybridization conditions; and

measuring the modulation activity of the modified antisense oligonucleotide to modulate the mRNA of the target Adiponectin polynucleotide relative to a mock-transfected control.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the target Adiponectin gene is selected from ADIPOQ1 or from ADIPOR2.

3. The method according to claim 1 wherein the target natural antisense polynucleotide is selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOS:

3 to 6.

4. The method according to claim 1 wherein the oligonucleotide increases the expression of the Adiponectin polynucleotide relative to a mock-transfected control.

5. The method according to claim 1 wherein the oligonucleotide is a modified oligonucleotide.

6. The method according to claim 5 wherein the modified oligonucleotide comprises one or more modifications selected from:

at least one modified sugar moiety, at least one modified internucleoside linkage, at least one modified nucleotide, and combinations thereof.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the one or more modifications comprise at least one modified sugar moiety selected from:

a 2′

-O-methoxyethyl modified sugar moiety, a 2′

-methoxy modified sugar moiety, a 2′

-O-alkyl modified sugar moiety, a bicyclic sugar moiety, and combinations thereof.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the one or more modifications comprise at least one modified internucleoside linkage selected from:

a phosphorothioate, alkylphosphonate, phosphorodithioate, alkylphosphonothioate, phosphoramidate, carbamate, carbonate, phosphate triester, acetamidate, carboxymethyl ester, and combinations thereof.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the one or more modifications comprise at least one modified nucleotide selected from:

a peptide nucleic acid (PNA), a locked nucleic acid (LNA), an arabino-nucleic acid (FANA), an analogue, a derivative, and combinations thereof.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the at least one oligonucleotide comprises at least one oligonucleotide sequences set forth as SEQ ID NOS:

7 to 31.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the at least one oligonucleotide is selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOS:

8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 23, 25 and 26.