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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023

Biomimetic noncationic lipid nanoparticles for mRNA delivery.

Changrong Wang, Caiyan Zhao, Weipeng Wang, Xiaoqing Liu, Hongzhang Deng

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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34citing papers in PubMed
10.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Decoding Undesirable Inflammatory Responses of Nucleic Acid-Delivering Lipid Nanoparticles.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  15. A general genome editing strategy using CRISPR lipid nanoparticle spherical nucleic acids.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  19. [Research progress on lipid nanoparticle messenger RNA delivery system].Zhejiang da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Zhejiang University. Medical sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Changrong Wang *Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University and Engineering Research Center of Molecular and Neuro Imaging, Ministry of Education, Xi'an 710126, China.
Caiyan Zhao *Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University and Engineering Research Center of Molecular and Neuro Imaging, Ministry of Education, Xi'an 710126, China.
Weipeng Wang *Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University and Engineering Research Center of Molecular and Neuro Imaging, Ministry of Education, Xi'an 710126, China.
Xiaoqing LiuDepartment of Biotechnology, School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University and Engineering Research Center of Molecular and Neuro Imaging, Ministry of Education, Xi'an 710126, China.
Hongzhang DengDepartment of Biotechnology, School of Life Science and Technology, Xidian University and Engineering Research Center of Molecular and Neuro Imaging, Ministry of Education, Xi'an 710126, China.ORCID 0000-0003-3637-8905
Xidian University · CN

Funding

Natural science foundation of shaanxi province of china 2023-JC-YB-196NSFC 32171320 81371667 82302384 32201173Qinchuangyuan cited the high-level innovation and entrepreneurship lalent program QCYRCXM-2022-232Qinchuangyuan cited the high-level innovation and entrepreneurship lalent program QCYRCXM-2022-27Science and technology projects in guangzhou 2023A04J1510The fundamental research founds for the central universities QTZX23058Xi'an Association ofr science and technology young talent promotion plan 095920221341
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although the tremendous progress has been made for mRNA delivery based on classical cationic carriers, the excess cationic charge density of lipids was necessary to compress mRNA through electrostatic interaction, and with it comes inevitably adverse events including the highly inflammatory and cytotoxic effects. How to develop the disruptive technologies to overcome cationic nature of lipids remains a major challenge for safe and efficient mRNA delivery. Here, we prepared noncationic thiourea lipids nanoparticles (NC-TNP) to compress mRNA by strong hydrogen bonds interaction between thiourea groups of NC-TNP and the phosphate groups of mRNA, abandoning the hidebound and traditional electrostatic force to construct mRNA-cationic lipids formulation. NC-TNP was a delivery system for mRNA with simple, convenient, and repeatable preparation technology and showed negligible inflammatory and cytotoxicity side effects. Furthermore, we found that NC-TNP could escape the recycling pathway to inhibit the egress of internalized nanoparticles from the intracellular compartment to the extracellular milieu which was a common fact in mRNA-LNP (lipid nanoparticles) formulation. Therefore, NC-TNP-encapsulated mRNA showed higher gene transfection efficiency in vitro and in vivo than mRNA-LNP formulation. Unexpectedly, NC-TNP showed spleen targeting delivery ability with higher accumulation ratio (spleen/liver), compared with traditional LNP. Spleen-targeting NC-TNP with mRNA exhibited high mRNA-encoded antigen expression in spleen and elicited robust immune responses. Overall, our work establishes a proof of concept for the construction of a noncationic system for mRNA delivery with good inflammatory safety profiles, high gene transfection efficiency, and spleen-targeting delivery to induce permanent and robust humoral and cell-mediated immunity for disease treatments.

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BiomimeticsNanoparticlesCationsLipidsLiposomesRNA, MessengerRNA, Small InterferingThioureaCationsLipid NanoparticlesLipidsLiposomesRNA, MessengerRNA, Small InterferingThioureaimmunotherapyLNPmRNA deliverynoncationicspleen targeting

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PMID38079547
PMCPMC10743463
OpenAlexW4389537757

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