Pharmaceutical composition comprising Nanog shRNA, and method of using Nanog shRNA to treat cancer
AssigneeThe United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Dept. of Health and Human Services
InventorsJohn Milburn Jessup, Nikolay Korokhov
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Abstract
The present description relates to an inhibitory RNA molecule, comprising an oligonucleotide that selectively knocks down expression a Nanog pseudogene expressed in many human cancers, a replicating viral vector capable of encoding such inhibitory RNA molecule, pharmaceutical compositions comprising said vector, and methods of treating cancer by administration of said pharmaceutical composition.
Claims6
A method of treating colorectal cancer in a patient comprising administering to a patient in need of such treatment a therapeutically effective amount of an inhibitory RNA molecule, comprising an oligonucleotide that knocks down expression of NANOGP8 wherein the oligonucleotide comprises a sequence selected from the group consisting of
- SEQ ID NO:3 (5′-GAGGCAGCAGAGACCGCTGCATGCACTTCCAGCCA-3′);
- SEQ ID NO:8 (5′-TCTGACAGGAAGTGGCTGGAAGTGCATGCAG-3′);
- and,
- SEQ ID NO:56 (CTGCATGCACTTCCAGCCG).
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