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ReviewJournal of translational medicine2019

How mRNA therapeutics are entering the monoclonal antibody field.

Lien Van Hoecke, Kenny Roose

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Review in Journal of translational medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 124 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
124citing papers in PubMed
7.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

124 citing papers in PubMed, 194 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Anti-CD19-engineered exosomes enable B cell-targeted anti-BAFF mRNA delivery to alleviate lupus progression.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2026
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64 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Lien Van HoeckeVIB Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, Ghent, Belgium. Lien.vanhoecke@vib-ugent.be.ORCID 0000-0001-8602-4211
Kenny RooseVIB Center for Medical Biotechnology, VIB, Ghent, Belgium.
Ghent University · BEUniversity College Ghent · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In 1975, Milstein and Köhler revolutionized the medical world with the development of the hybridoma technique to produce monoclonal antibodies. Since then, monoclonal antibodies have entered almost every branch of biomedical research. Antibodies are now used as frontline therapeutics in highly divergent indications, ranging from autoimmune disease over allergic asthma to cancer. Wider accessibility and implementation of antibody-based therapeutics is however hindered by manufacturing challenges and high development costs inherent to protein-based drugs. For these reasons, alternative ways are being pursued to produce and deliver antibodies more cost-effectively without hampering safety. Over the past decade, messenger RNA (mRNA) based drugs have emerged as a highly appealing new class of biologics that can be used to encode any protein of interest directly in vivo. Whereas current clinical efforts to use mRNA as a drug are mainly situated at the level of prophylactic and therapeutic vaccination, three recent preclinical studies have addressed the feasibility of using mRNA to encode therapeutic antibodies directly in vivo. Here, we highlight the potential of mRNA-based approaches to solve several of the issues associated with antibodies produced and delivered in protein format. Nonetheless, we also identify key hurdles that mRNA-based approaches still need to take to fulfill this potential and ultimately replace the current protein antibody format.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntibodies, MonoclonalBioreactorsGene Transfer TechniquesHumansModels, BiologicalRNA, MessengerAntibodies, MonoclonalRNA, MessengerAntibody therapymRNAmRNA designmRNA technologymRNA therapeuticPassive immunization

Identifiers

PMID30795778
PMCPMC6387507
OpenAlexW2947249571

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