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Non-linear enhancement of mRNA delivery efficiencies by influenza A derived NS1 protein engendering host gene inhibition property

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Editor, Senior Moderator
Biomaterials. 2017 Apr 12;133:29-36. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2017.04.009. [Epub ahead of print]
[h=1]Non-linear enhancement of mRNA delivery efficiencies by influenza A derived NS1 protein engendering host gene inhibition property.[/h] Phua KKL[SUP]1[/SUP], Liu Y[SUP]2[/SUP], Sim SH[SUP]3[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h]

[h=3]Abstract[/h] Nucleic acid induced immunogenicity remains a significant impediment in biomedical therapeutics because the innate immune system is a complex network overlaid with functional redundancies. Herein we report that non-structural protein 1 (NS1), an immune evasion protein derived from influenza A virus, when co-delivered in mRNA format is a potent mRNA transfection enhancer without toxicity. Transfection enhancement is mediated by NS1's effector domain through inhibition of IRF3 and PKR, activators of early anti-viral responses as well as CPSF30, a non immunostimulating protein. Importantly, host gene inhibition mediated via CPSF30 inhibition is a highly effective immune evasion mechanism because it blocks de novo gene expression non-specifically and inhibits global anti-viral responses during mRNA transfection. We show that only NS1 with CPSF30 inhibition property can enhance modified mRNA transfections. Furthermore, transfection efficiency of unmodified mRNA, if co-delivered with NS1-TX91 mRNA, can exceed that of modified mRNA in HepG2, RAW 264.7 and HeLa cells. The novel impact of NS1-TX91 lays the foundation of a virus inspired immune evasion genes co-delivery approach that can address problems arising from RNA immunogenicity for non-vaccine mRNA therapeutics in an affordable and scalable way. It is also transferable to applications that benefits from active inhibition of material-induced immunogenicity.
Copyright ? 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.


[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] Anti-viral response; Immune evasion genes; Interferon; Modified mRNA; mRNA delivery; mRNA therapeutics; mRNA transfection

PMID: 28426973 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2017.04.009
 
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