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ArticleJournal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society2022

Lipid nanoparticle chemistry determines how nucleoside base modifications alter mRNA delivery.

Jilian R Melamed, Khalid A Hajj, Namit Chaudhary, Daria Strelkova, Mariah L Arral, Norbert Pardi, Mohamad-Gabriel Alameh, Jason B Miller, Lukas Farbiak, Daniel J Siegwart and 2 more

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Article in Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers.

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48citing papers in PubMed
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

48 citing papers in PubMed, 85 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jilian R MelamedDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States of America.
Khalid A HajjDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States of America.
Namit ChaudharyDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States of America.
Daria StrelkovaDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States of America.
Mariah L ArralDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States of America.
Norbert PardiDepartment of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States of America.
Mohamad-Gabriel AlamehDepartment of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States of America.
Jason B MillerDepartment of Biochemistry, Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, United States of America.
Lukas FarbiakDepartment of Biochemistry, Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, United States of America.
Daniel J SiegwartDepartment of Biochemistry, Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, United States of America.
Drew WeissmanDepartment of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States of America.
Kathryn A WhiteheadDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States of America. Electronic address: kawhite@cmu.edu.
Carnegie Mellon University · USThe University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Project 2 - GMP Manufacturing of mRNA ImmunogensU19AI142596 · NIAID · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI HAYNES, BARTON F. · 2019 to 2024
$19.0M
Nucleoside modified mRNA based HIV vaccineR01AI124429 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI WEISSMAN, DREW · 2016 to 2019
$3.4M
Defining the molecular interactions within nanoparticles that enable delivery of long nucleic acidsR01EB025192 · NIBIB · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI SIEGWART, DANIEL JOHN · 2018 to 2025
$3.1M
Fate, Function and Genetic Engineering of Breast Milk Cells for Infant TherapyDP2HD098860 · NICHD · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI WHITEHEAD, KATHRYN A. · 2018 to 2021
$2.4M
Engineering Smart Protein Coronas to Advance Theraputic mRNA DeliveryF32EB029345 · NIBIB · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI MELAMED, JILIAN R · 2019 to 2021
$128k
Effects of Age on Lipid Nanoparticle Delivery and mRNA VaccinationF31AG077874 · NIA · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI ARRAL, MARIAH · 2023 to 2024
$89k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI124429NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI142596NIA NIH HHS F31 AG077874NIBIB NIH HHS F32 EB029345NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB025192NICHD NIH HHS DP2 HD098860
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Therapeutic mRNA has the potential to revolutionize the treatment of myriad diseases and, in 2020, facilitated the most rapid vaccine development in history. Among the substantial advances in mRNA technology made in recent years, the incorporation of base modifications into therapeutic mRNA sequences can reduce immunogenicity and increase translation. However, experiments from our lab and others have shown that the incorporation of base modifications does not always yield superior protein expression. We hypothesized that the variable benefit of base modifications may relate to lipid nanoparticle chemistry, formulation, and accumulation within specific organs. To test this theory, we compared IV-injected lipid nanoparticles formulated with reporter mRNA incorporating five base modifications (ψ, m1ψ, m5U, m5C/ψ, and m5C/s2U) and four ionizable lipids (C12-200, cKK-E12, ZA3-Ep10, and 200O

Indexed as

NanoparticlesNucleosidesLipidsLiposomesRNA, MessengerLipid NanoparticlesLipidsLiposomesNucleosidesRNA, MessengerLipid nanoparticlesLipidoidmRNANon-viral gene deliveryPseudouridine

Identifiers

PMID34801660
PMCPMC8905090
OpenAlexW3214423705

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