The mechanism of action of antisense oligonucleotide (ASO)-based therapies that are designed to suppress gene expression. The genetic information of a cell is stored in the form of a double-stranded DNA in the nucleus.
Oxidation follows in order to convert the phosphite internucleotide linkage to phosphate. The cycle is then repeated many times to produce deoxyoligonucleotides containing at least 20–30 mononucleotides. This procedure continues, thirty years later, to be the method of choice for the chemical synthesis of DNA and RNA.
However, antisense transcription is not limited to retroviruses and has also been described in numerous other viruses, such as herpesviruses (HVs). Antisense Transcripts and Antisense Proteins in Herpesviruses. Antisense transcription has also been particularly studied in the Herpesviridae family. HVs are double-stranded DNA viruses which
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