This DNA strand is referred to as the antisense strand. The strand that does not code for RNA is called the sense strand. Another way of defining antisense DNA is that it is the strand of DNA that carries the information necessary to make proteins by binding to a corresponding messenger RNA. Although these strands are exact mirror images of one
UBE3A-ATS/Ube3a-ATS (human/mouse), otherwise known as ubiquitin ligase E3A-ATS, is the name for the antisense DNA strand that is transcribed as part of a larger transcript called LNCAT (large non-coding antisense transcript) at the Ube3a locus. The Ube3a locus is imprinted and in the central nervous system expressed only from the maternal allele.
Antisense therapy. The experimental drug, Ionis-HTTRx, is a type of drug called “antisense oligonucleotides”. Before I explain how it works, it’s worth reviewing the fundamentals of how
a. Antisense mRNA can be added to cells. Since RNA is easily degraded, modified RNA's, more resistant to hydrolysis, are used instead of ordinary RNA's. b. Antisense mRNA can be made in the cell from a second copy of the gene.
We used morpholino backbone chemistry to make steric block antisense oligos. Unmodified DNA and RNA oligos are rapidly degraded in biological systems by enzymatic cleavage of the phosphodiester bond (Supplementary Figure S3B, R = O −) and are prone to hydrolysis due to the presence of a hydroxyl group on the 2′-carbon of the ribose sugar
Only one of the strands of the DNA molecule contains the necessery gene - this is what we call the sense strand. If we want to express that gene, we would need to transcribe the other strand (the antisense strand) simply because this would give us the exact same sequence we can see in the sense strand but in RNA 'letters'.
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