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ArticleMolecular pharmaceutics2024

Optimizing the Delivery of mRNA to Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Tissue Engineering Applications.

Katie McCormick, Jorge Moreno Herrero, Heinrich Haas, Sarinj Fattah, Andreas Heise, Fergal J O'Brien, Sally-Ann Cryan

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Article in Molecular pharmaceutics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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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

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Katie McCormickTissue Engineering Research Group, Department of Anatomy and Regenerative Medicine, RCSI, Dublin D02 YN77, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-4673-0207
Jorge Moreno Herrero, BioNTech SE, Mainz 55131, Germany.
Heinrich Haas, BioNTech SE, Mainz 55131, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5517-5970
Sarinj FattahTissue Engineering Research Group, Department of Anatomy and Regenerative Medicine, RCSI, Dublin D02 YN77, Ireland.
Andreas HeiseScience Foundation Ireland Advance Materials and Bioengineering Research Centre, Dublin D02 W9K7, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0001-5916-8500
Fergal J O'BrienTissue Engineering Research Group, Department of Anatomy and Regenerative Medicine, RCSI, Dublin D02 YN77, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0003-2030-8005
Sally-Ann CryanTissue Engineering Research Group, Department of Anatomy and Regenerative Medicine, RCSI, Dublin D02 YN77, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-3941-496X
Science Foundation Ireland · IEBioNTech (Germany) · DERoyal College of Surgeons in Ireland · IE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Messenger RNA (mRNA) represents a promising therapeutic tool in the field of tissue engineering for the fast and transient production of growth factors to support new tissue regeneration. However, one of the main challenges to optimizing its use is achieving efficient uptake and delivery to mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), which have been long reported as difficult-to-transfect. The aim of this study was to systematically screen a range of nonviral vectors to identify optimal transfection conditions for mRNA delivery to MSCs. Furthermore, for the first time, we wanted to directly compare the protein expression profile from three different types of mRNA, namely, unmodified mRNA (uRNA), base-modified mRNA (modRNA), and self-amplifying mRNA (saRNA) in MSCs. A range of polymer- and lipid-based vectors were used to encapsulate mRNA and directly compared in terms of physicochemical properties as well as transfection efficiency and cytotoxicity in MSCs. We found that both lipid- and polymer-based materials were able to successfully condense and encapsulate mRNA into nanosized particles (<200 nm). The overall charge and encapsulation efficiency of the nanoparticles was dependent on the vector type as well as the vector:mRNA ratio. When screened

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Mesenchymal Stem CellsTissue EngineeringCollagenLipidsTransfectionCollagenLipidsgene-activated scaffoldgene deliverymesenchymal stem cellsmRNAnonviral vectorstissue engineering

Identifiers

PMID38504417
PMCPMC10988554
OpenAlexW4393008538

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