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ArticleMolecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy2019

Improving mRNA-Based Therapeutic Gene Delivery by Expression-Augmenting 3' UTRs Identified by Cellular Library Screening.

Alexandra G Orlandini von Niessen, Marco A Poleganov, Corina Rechner, Arianne Plaschke, Lena M Kranz, Stephanie Fesser, Mustafa Diken, Martin Löwer, Britta Vallazza, Tim Beissert and 4 more

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Article in Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 229 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

229 citing papers in PubMed, 342 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Alexandra G Orlandini von NiessenDepartment for Internal Medicine, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany; BioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals GmbH, Mainz, Germany.
Marco A PoleganovBioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals GmbH, Mainz, Germany.
Corina RechnerBioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals GmbH, Mainz, Germany.
Arianne PlaschkeBioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals GmbH, Mainz, Germany.
Lena M KranzBioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals GmbH, Mainz, Germany.
Stephanie FesserBioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals GmbH, Mainz, Germany.
Mustafa DikenBioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals GmbH, Mainz, Germany; TRON - Translational Oncology at the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Martin LöwerTRON - Translational Oncology at the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Britta VallazzaBioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals GmbH, Mainz, Germany.
Tim BeissertTRON - Translational Oncology at the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Valesca BukurTRON - Translational Oncology at the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Andreas N KuhnBioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals GmbH, Mainz, Germany.
Özlem TüreciBioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals GmbH, Mainz, Germany.
Ugur SahinDepartment for Internal Medicine, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany; BioNTech RNA Pharmaceuticals GmbH, Mainz, Germany; TRON - Translational Oncology at the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany. Electronic address: sahin@uni-mainz.de.
BioNTech (Germany) · DEJohannes Gutenberg University Mainz · DEUniversity Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synthetic mRNA has emerged as a powerful tool for the transfer of genetic information, and it is being explored for a variety of therapeutic applications. Many of these applications require prolonged intracellular persistence of mRNA to improve bioavailability of the encoded protein. mRNA molecules are intrinsically unstable and their intracellular kinetics depend on the UTRs embracing the coding sequence, in particular the 3' UTR elements. We describe here a novel and generally applicable cell-based selection process for the identification of 3' UTRs that augment the expression of proteins encoded by synthetic mRNA. Moreover, we show, for two applications of mRNA therapeutics, namely, (1) the delivery of vaccine antigens in order to mount T cell immune responses and (2) the introduction of reprogramming factors into differentiated cells in order to induce pluripotency, that mRNAs tagged with the 3' UTR elements discovered in this study outperform those with commonly used 3' UTRs. This approach further leverages the utility of mRNA as a gene therapy drug format.

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Gene LibraryRNA Stability3' Untranslated RegionsAnimalsBlood DonorsCancer VaccinesCells, CulturedCellular ReprogrammingFemaleFibroblastsGenetic TherapyGene Transfer TechniquesHalf-LifeHumansInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsMice3' Untranslated RegionsCancer VaccinesRNA, Messenger3’ UTR librarycancer immunotherapycellular reprogrammingiPSCsmRNA pharmacokineticsmRNA therapeuticsRNA stability

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PMID30638957
PMCPMC6453560
OpenAlexW2903777694

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