Messenger ribonucleic acid(mRNA)-based therapeutics hold great prospects in disease treatment and lipid nanoparticles(LNPs)are the most extensively applied non-viral platform for RNA delivery in clinics.Despite the cl...Messenger ribonucleic acid(mRNA)-based therapeutics hold great prospects in disease treatment and lipid nanoparticles(LNPs)are the most extensively applied non-viral platform for RNA delivery in clinics.Despite the clinical success of LNPs as vehicles have been achieved,developing LNPs with enhanced mRNA transmembrane delivery and transfection efficiency in a non-toxic manner is highly desirable and challenging.In this study,we designed a series of new ionizable amino lipids with piperazinederived headgroups and constructed a group of LNPs to promote the transfection activity of mRNA cargos.Among them,LNP formulated with lipid 10(L10-LNP)can efficiently package mRNA and perform superior transfection efficiency both in vitro and in vivo,which is mainly attributed to the improved intracellular uptake and effective endosomal escape.We verified that a single administration of L10-LNP packaging interleukin(IL)-12 mRNA induced tumor shrink and even regression by robust activation of immune effector CD8^(+)T cells and stimulating the generation of IFN-γwithout causing systemic toxicity,which provides a promising platform for clinical cancer immunotherapy.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2019YFA0905200)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.82072045)the Postgraduate Research&Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province(No.KYCX23_1504).
文摘Messenger ribonucleic acid(mRNA)-based therapeutics hold great prospects in disease treatment and lipid nanoparticles(LNPs)are the most extensively applied non-viral platform for RNA delivery in clinics.Despite the clinical success of LNPs as vehicles have been achieved,developing LNPs with enhanced mRNA transmembrane delivery and transfection efficiency in a non-toxic manner is highly desirable and challenging.In this study,we designed a series of new ionizable amino lipids with piperazinederived headgroups and constructed a group of LNPs to promote the transfection activity of mRNA cargos.Among them,LNP formulated with lipid 10(L10-LNP)can efficiently package mRNA and perform superior transfection efficiency both in vitro and in vivo,which is mainly attributed to the improved intracellular uptake and effective endosomal escape.We verified that a single administration of L10-LNP packaging interleukin(IL)-12 mRNA induced tumor shrink and even regression by robust activation of immune effector CD8^(+)T cells and stimulating the generation of IFN-γwithout causing systemic toxicity,which provides a promising platform for clinical cancer immunotherapy.