Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Fully automated fast-flow synthesis of antisense phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomers

  • Chengxi Li,
  • Alex J. Callahan,
  • Mark D. Simon,
  • Kyle A. Totaro,
  • Alexander J. Mijalis,
  • Kruttika-Suhas Phadke,
  • Genwei Zhang,
  • Nina Hartrampf,
  • Carly K. Schissel,
  • Ming Zhou,
  • Hong Zong,
  • Gunnar J. Hanson,
  • Andrei Loas,
  • Nicola L. B. Pohl,
  • David E. Verhoeven,
  • Bradley L. Pentelute

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24598-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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PMOs (phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomers) have huge potential for antisense therapy but complex and slow synthesis limits application. Here, the authors report the development of automated flow synthesis methods which reduce nucleobase coupling times from hours to minutes removing human errors and allow for high-throughput production.