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ArticleThe Journal of chemical physics2025

Coacervation drives morphological diversity of mRNA encapsulating nanoparticles.

Emmit K Pert, Paul J Hurst, Robert M Waymouth, Grant M Rotskoff

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Article in The Journal of chemical physics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Emmit K PertDepartment of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.ORCID 0009-0005-8763-3226
Paul J HurstDepartment of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1826-2549
Robert M WaymouthDepartment of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9862-9509
Grant M RotskoffDepartment of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7772-5179

Funding

New Materials to Deliver mRNA: Applications in Cancer ImmunotherapyR01CA245533 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI LEVY, RONALD, WAYMOUTH, ROBERT M. · 2020 to 2024
$2.6M
Structure-Property-Function Relationship in mRNA/CARTs for Targeted mRNA DeliveryF32AI176755 · NIAID · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Paul Joshua Hurst · 2024 to 2026
$163k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA245533NIAID NIH HHS F32 AI176755
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The spatial arrangement of components within an mRNA encapsulating nanoparticle has consequences for its thermal stability, which is a key parameter for therapeutic utility. The mesostructure of mRNA nanoparticles formed with cationic polymers has several distinct putative structures: here, we develop a field theoretic simulation model to compute the phase diagram for amphiphilic block copolymers that balance coacervation and hydrophobicity as driving forces for assembly. We predict several distinct morphologies for the mesostructure of these nanoparticles, depending on salt conditions and hydrophobicity. We compare our predictions with cryogenic-electron microscopy images of mRNA encapsulated by charge altering releasable transporters. In addition, we provide a graphics processing unit-accelerated, open-source codebase for general purpose field theoretic simulations, which we anticipate will be a useful tool for the community.

Indexed as

NanoparticlesRNA, MessengerHydrophobic and Hydrophilic InteractionsPolymersPolymersRNA, Messenger

Identifiers

PMID39968821
PMCPMC11972093

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