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Antisense oligonucleotide-mediated knockdown therapy in two infants with severe KCNT1 epileptic encephalopathy.

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Authors: Tojo Nakayama1,2, Christelle M El Achkar3, Lisseth E Burbano1,4, Imran H Quraishi5,6, Jing Wu6, Melody Li4, Yutaro Asami1,2, Sean R Golinski7, Emma Sherrill1, Benjamin D Goodlett1, Claudio M de Gusmao3, Danielle A Friedman1, Claudia Lentucci1, Victoria Suslovitch1, Olivia Riccardi1, Kamli N W Faour1, Ashley Kuniholm8, Aubrie Soucy Verran1, Siobhan Coffman9, Banu Ahtam10
and 15 other authorsBoxun Zhao1,11,12,13, Diana H Chin1, Renata L DiDonato1, Chunguang A Hu1, Edith Lopez1, Sonia Hills1, Snezana Maljevic4, Helene Tran14, Lynn W Bush1,12, Patricia Ellen Grant10,12, Joseph R Madsen12,15, Richard S Smith7, Leonard K Kaczmarek6,16, Charles B Berde9,12, Timothy W Yu1,11,12,13
16 affiliations
  1. Division of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA USA
  2. Nucleotide and Peptide Drug Discovery Center, Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  3. Department of Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA USA
  4. The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria Australia
  5. Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Department of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT USA
  6. Department of Pharmacology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT USA
  7. Department of Pharmacology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL USA
  8. Clinical Research Operations Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA USA
  9. Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA USA
  10. Department of Radiology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA USA
  11. Manton Center for Orphan Disease, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA USA
  12. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
  13. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA USA
  14. R&D Servier Institute Paris-Saclay, Saclay, France
  15. Department of Neurosurgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA USA
  16. Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT USA
Journal: Nature medicine, volume 32, issue 4, pages 1411-1420
Dates: received 30 August 2024; accepted 26 February 2026; published online 14 April 2026; in print 2026
Type: Research article · Language: English
License: CC BY-NC-ND
Identifiers: DOI 10.1038/s41591-026-04314-9 · PMID 41981306 · PMCID PMC13099374 · OpenAlex W7154360999
Open access: hybrid, a free copy (OpenAlex)
Status: data only
Categories: human (organism), other condition (population), epilepsy (population)
Methods: Statistics, Smoothing, state filtering, decompositions
Keywords: Epilepsy, Drug development, Genetics research
MeSH: Epilepsy*, Nerve Tissue Proteins*, Oligonucleotides, Antisense*, Potassium Channels*, Child, Preschool, Female, Gene Knockdown Techniques, Humans, Infant, Potassium Channels, Sodium-Activated, Seizures (* major topic)
Topic: Ion channel regulation and function (Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology), according to OpenAlex
Funding: NINDS NIH HHS (R00 NS112604, R01 NS102239); NCATS NIH HHS (UL1 TR000170); NHGRI NIH HHS (R01 HG012247)
Citations: cited by 7 papers (Europe PMC); 60 references in the paper

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This paper

Nakayama, T., El Achkar, C. M., Burbano, L. E., Quraishi, I. H., Wu, J., Li, M., Asami, Y., Golinski, S. R., Sherrill, E., Goodlett, B. D., de Gusmao, C. M., Friedman, D. A., Lentucci, C., Suslovitch, V., Riccardi, O., Faour, K. N. W., Kuniholm, A., Soucy Verran, A., Coffman, S., . . . Yu, T. W. (2026). Antisense oligonucleotide-mediated knockdown therapy in two infants with severe KCNT1 epileptic encephalopathy. Nature medicine, 32(4), 1411-1420. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-026-04314-9

BibTeX

@article{nakayama2026antisense,
author = {Nakayama, Tojo and El Achkar, Christelle M and Burbano, Lisseth E and Quraishi, Imran H and Wu, Jing and Li, Melody and Asami, Yutaro and Golinski, Sean R and Sherrill, Emma and Goodlett, Benjamin D and de Gusmao, Claudio M and Friedman, Danielle A and Lentucci, Claudia and Suslovitch, Victoria and Riccardi, Olivia and Faour, Kamli N W and Kuniholm, Ashley and Soucy Verran, Aubrie and Coffman, Siobhan and Ahtam, Banu and Zhao, Boxun and Chin, Diana H and DiDonato, Renata L and Hu, Chunguang A and Lopez, Edith and Hills, Sonia and Maljevic, Snezana and Tran, Helene and Bush, Lynn W and Grant, Patricia Ellen and Madsen, Joseph R and Smith, Richard S and Kaczmarek, Leonard K and Berde, Charles B and Yu, Timothy W},
title = {{Antisense oligonucleotide-mediated knockdown therapy in two infants with severe KCNT1 epileptic encephalopathy}},
journal = {Nature medicine},
year = {2026},
month = apr,
volume = {32},
number = {4},
pages = {1411--1420},
publisher = {Nature Portfolio},
issn = {1078-8956},
doi = {10.1038/s41591-026-04314-9},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-026-04314-9},
pmid = {41981306},
pmcid = {PMC13099374}
}

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TY - JOUR
AU - Nakayama, Tojo
AU - El Achkar, Christelle M
AU - Burbano, Lisseth E
AU - Quraishi, Imran H
AU - Wu, Jing
AU - Li, Melody
AU - Asami, Yutaro
AU - Golinski, Sean R
AU - Sherrill, Emma
AU - Goodlett, Benjamin D
AU - de Gusmao, Claudio M
AU - Friedman, Danielle A
AU - Lentucci, Claudia
AU - Suslovitch, Victoria
AU - Riccardi, Olivia
AU - Faour, Kamli N W
AU - Kuniholm, Ashley
AU - Soucy Verran, Aubrie
AU - Coffman, Siobhan
AU - Ahtam, Banu
AU - Zhao, Boxun
AU - Chin, Diana H
AU - DiDonato, Renata L
AU - Hu, Chunguang A
AU - Lopez, Edith
AU - Hills, Sonia
AU - Maljevic, Snezana
AU - Tran, Helene
AU - Bush, Lynn W
AU - Grant, Patricia Ellen
AU - Madsen, Joseph R
AU - Smith, Richard S
AU - Kaczmarek, Leonard K
AU - Berde, Charles B
AU - Yu, Timothy W
TI - Antisense oligonucleotide-mediated knockdown therapy in two infants with severe KCNT1 epileptic encephalopathy
T2 - Nature medicine
J2 - Nat Med
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/04/14
VL - 32
IS - 4
SP - 1411
EP - 1420
SN - 1078-8956
PB - Nature Portfolio
DO - 10.1038/s41591-026-04314-9
UR - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-026-04314-9
LA - en
ER -

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