Patent ID: 9528111
Filing Date: 2016-12-27
CPC Classification: A61K,A61P,C07C,C12N

Claim Text:
1. A single-stranded nucleic acid molecule comprising an expression inhibitory sequence that inhibits expression of a target gene, and comprising region (X), region (Y), linker region (Lx), linker region (Ly), region (Xc) and region (Yc), wherein the linker region (Lx) is linked between the region (X) and the region (Xc), the linker region (Ly) is linked between the region (Y) and the region (Yc), the region (Xc) is complementary to the region (X), the region (Yc) is complementary to the region (Y), an inner region (Z) is composed of the region (X) and the region (Y) that are linked to each other, at least one of the region (Z), the region (Xc) and the region (Yc) contains the expression inhibitory sequence, and the linker region (Lx) and the linker region (Ly) are represented by the following formula (I-1) or (I-4) wherein n is an integer of 0-30 and m is an integer of 0-30: