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Polyamine-Mediated Stoichiometric Assembly of Ribonucleoproteins for Enhanced mRNA Delivery

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Li, Jiahe; He, Yanpu; Wang, Wade; Wu, Connie; Hong, Celestine; Hammond, Paula T; ... Show more Show less
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Abstract
Messenger RNA (mRNA) represents a promising class of nucleic acid drugs. Although numerous carriers have been developed for mRNA delivery, the inefficient mRNA expression inside cells remains a major challenge. Inspired by the dependence of mRNA on 3′-terminal polyadenosine nucleotides (poly A) and poly A binding proteins (PABPs) for optimal expression, we complexed synthetic mRNA containing a poly A tail with PABPs in a stoichiometric manner and stabilized the ribonucleoproteins (RNPs) with a family of polypeptides bearing different arrangements of cationic side groups. We found that the molecular structure of these polypeptides modulates the degree of PABP-mediated enhancement of mRNA expression. This strategy elicits an up to 20-fold increase in mRNA expression in vitro and an approximately fourfold increase in mice. These findings suggest a set of new design principles for gene delivery by the synergistic co-assembly of mRNA with helper proteins.
Date issued
2017-09
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122816
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry; Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
Journal
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
Publisher
Wiley
Citation
Li, Jiahe et al. "Polyamine-Mediated Stoichiometric Assembly of Ribonucleoproteins for Enhanced mRNA Delivery." Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 56, 44 (October 2017) : 13709–13712 © 2017 Publisher
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1433-7851

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