Table 1. Antisense Oligonucleotides (ASOs) to Treat Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD).

From: Antisense Oligonucleotide-Mediated Exon-skipping Therapies: Precision Medicine Spreading from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Name ASO Target exon Phase
Nucleic acid Size Route
Eteplirsen PMO 25 IV 51 Approved
Golodirsen PMO 25 IV 53 Approved
Viltolarsen PMO 21 IV 53 Approved
Casimersen PMO 25 IV 45 Approval stage
Renadirsen ENA/2'RNA 18 SC 45 I/II
Table 2. Gene Functional Changes Induced by Exon Skipping.

From: Antisense Oligonucleotide-Mediated Exon-skipping Therapies: Precision Medicine Spreading from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Function Target exon Gene Inheritance Disease
Restoration Normal out-of-frame DMD Monogenetic DMD
Mutated in-frame exon DYSF Monogenetic LGMD2B
Mutated out-of-frame exon SGCG Monogenetic LGMD2C
Mutated pseudo exon CLRN1 Monogenetic USH3
Destruction Out-of-frame exon MSTN Non monogenetic Diabetes mellitus
Modulation Normal in-frame exon ITGA4 Non monogenetic Crohn’s disease
Table 3. Skipping of Normal Out-of-frame Exons.

From: Antisense Oligonucleotide-Mediated Exon-skipping Therapies: Precision Medicine Spreading from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Disease Gene Exon Phase Author, Year
DMD DMD 51, 53, 45 A, W, I/II Schneider et al. 2021 (25)
Dysferlinopathy DYSF 51 P Verwey et al. 2020 (23)
Parkinson’s disease PRKN 4 P Li et al. 2020 (24)
Table 4. Skipping of Mutated In-frame Exons.

From: Antisense Oligonucleotide-Mediated Exon-skipping Therapies: Precision Medicine Spreading from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Disease Gene Exon Phase Author, Year
LGMD2B DYSF 32 P Barthelemy et al. 2015 (26)
Laminopathy LMNA 5 P Scharner et al. 2015 (27)
Joubert syndrome CEP290 41 P Molinari et al. 2019 (31)
Alport syndrome COL4A5 21 P Yamamura et al. 2020 (29)
Dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa COL7A1 73 P Bornert et al. 2020 (30)
CADASIL NOTCH3 9 P Gravesteijn et al. 2020 (32)
Mucolipidosis II GNPTAB 19 P Matos et al. 2020 (33)
Myotonic dystrophy type1 DMPK 15 P Stepniak et al. 2020 (34)
Table 5. Skipping of Mutated Out-of-frame Exons.

From: Antisense Oligonucleotide-Mediated Exon-skipping Therapies: Precision Medicine Spreading from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Disease Gene Exon Phase Author, Year
LGMD2C SGCG 4-7 P Wyatt et al. 2018 (35)
CADASIL NOTCH3 2-3,4-5,6 P Rutten 2016 (38)
HGPS LMNA 11 P Lee et al. 2016 (36)
SCA3 ATXN3 10 P McIntosh et al. 2019 (37)
Table 6. Skipping of Pseudoexons.

From: Antisense Oligonucleotide-Mediated Exon-skipping Therapies: Precision Medicine Spreading from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Disease Gene Phase Author, Year
Usher syndrome type III CLRN1 P Panagiotopoulos et al. 2020 (41)
LGMD2B DYSF P Dominov et al. 2020 (42)
Erythropoietic protoporphyria FECH P Halloy et al. 2020 (43)
Stargardt disease ABCA4 P Sangermano et al. 2019 (44)
Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis 7 CLN7 H Kim et al. 2019 (45)
Table 7. Skipping of Out-of-frame Exons for the Disruption of Gene Function.

From: Antisense Oligonucleotide-Mediated Exon-skipping Therapies: Precision Medicine Spreading from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Disease Gene Exon Phase Author, Year
Diabetes mellitus MSTN 2 P Eilers et al. 2021 (50)
DMD P Kemaladewi et al. 2011 (47)
Parkinson’s disease LRRK2 41 P Korecka et al. 2020 (48)
Prostate cancer ERG 4 P Li et al. 2020 (49)
Muscle fibrosis ALK5 6 P Kemaladewi et al. 2014 (51)
Familial hypercholesterolemia APOB 27 P Disterer et al. 2013 (52)
Table 8. Skipping of Normal In-frame Exons.

From: Antisense Oligonucleotide-Mediated Exon-skipping Therapies: Precision Medicine Spreading from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Disease Gene Exon Lost domain Phase Author, Year
Crohn’s disease ITGA4 27 transmembrane P Aung-Htut 2019 (21)
Dupuytren’s disease ALK5 2 ligand binding P Karkampouna et al. 2014 (53)
Muscle fibrosis P Kemaladewi et al. 2014 (51)
Hypertrophic scar P Raktoe et al. 2020 (54)
Cancer CD44 v8 ligand binding P Fukushima et al. 2020 (55)
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