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ArticleCommunications chemistry2025

Multicomponent thiolactone-based ionizable lipid screening platform for efficient and tunable mRNA delivery to the lungs.

Álvaro Peña, Juan Heredero, Beatriz Blandín, Elena Mata, Diego De Miguel, Alfonso Toro, Teresa Alejo, Diego Casabona, Alexandre López, Ana Gallego-Lleyda and 3 more

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Article in Communications chemistry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Álvaro Peña *Certest Pharma, Certest Biotec S. L., 50840, San Mateo de Gállego, Zaragoza, Spain.
Juan Heredero *Certest Pharma, Certest Biotec S. L., 50840, San Mateo de Gállego, Zaragoza, Spain.
Beatriz BlandínCertest Pharma, Certest Biotec S. L., 50840, San Mateo de Gállego, Zaragoza, Spain.
Elena MataCertest Pharma, Certest Biotec S. L., 50840, San Mateo de Gállego, Zaragoza, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4086-7544
Diego De MiguelCertest Pharma, Certest Biotec S. L., 50840, San Mateo de Gállego, Zaragoza, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8486-8514
Alfonso ToroCertest Pharma, Certest Biotec S. L., 50840, San Mateo de Gállego, Zaragoza, Spain.
Teresa AlejoCertest Pharma, Certest Biotec S. L., 50840, San Mateo de Gállego, Zaragoza, Spain.
Diego CasabonaCertest Pharma, Certest Biotec S. L., 50840, San Mateo de Gállego, Zaragoza, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-9722-9124
Alexandre LópezCertest Pharma, Certest Biotec S. L., 50840, San Mateo de Gállego, Zaragoza, Spain.
Ana Gallego-LleydaCertest Pharma, Certest Biotec S. L., 50840, San Mateo de Gállego, Zaragoza, Spain.
Esther Pérez-HerránCertest Pharma, Certest Biotec S. L., 50840, San Mateo de Gállego, Zaragoza, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4464-9528
Juan Martínez-OlivánCertest Pharma, Certest Biotec S. L., 50840, San Mateo de Gállego, Zaragoza, Spain. jmartinez@certest.es.
Javier Giménez-WarrenCertest Pharma, Certest Biotec S. L., 50840, San Mateo de Gállego, Zaragoza, Spain. jgimenez@certest.es.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1747-6393

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ionizable lipids are essential components of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) for efficient mRNA delivery. However, designing them for high protein expression, endosomal escape, and organ targeting is challenging due to complex structure-activity relationships. Here, we present a high-throughput platform for screening ionizable lipids using a two-step, scalable, one-pot reaction. This enabled the synthesis and vivo screening of 91 new lipids, followed by a structure-activity study, leading to the development of CP-LC-0729, which significantly surpasses the MC3 benchmark in protein expression with preliminary studies showing no in vivo toxicity. Additionally, a one-step strategy helped to yield a permanently cationic lipid which was tested in a fifth-lipid formulation, showing a highly selective lung delivery with a 32-fold increase in protein expression in vivo, outperforming current endogenous targeting strategies. All these findings underscore the potential of lipid CP-LC-0729 and our lipid platform in advancing the efficiency and specificity of mRNA delivery systems.

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PMCPMC12000586

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