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Edge Length-Programmed Single-Stranded RNA Origami for Predictive Innate Immune Activation and Therapy.
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Journal of the American Chemical Society [J Am Chem Soc] 2023 Aug 09; Vol. 145 (31), pp. 17112-17124. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jul 27. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Ligands targeting nucleic acid-sensing receptors activate the innate immune system and play a critical role in antiviral and antitumoral therapy. However, ligand design for in situ stability, targeted delivery, and predictive immunogenicity is largely hampered by the sophisticated mechanism of the nucleic acid-sensing process. Here, we utilize single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) origami with precise structural designability as nucleic acid sensor-based ligands to achieve improved biostability, organelle-level targeting, and predictive immunogenicity. The natural ssRNAs self-fold into compact nanoparticles with defined shapes and morphologies and exhibit resistance against RNase digestion in vitro and prolonged retention in macrophage endolysosomes. We find that programming the edge length of ssRNA origami can precisely regulate the degree of macrophage activation via a toll-like receptor-dependent pathway. Further, we demonstrate that the ssRNA origami-based ligand elicits an anti-tumoral immune response of macrophages and neutrophils in the tumor microenvironment and retards tumor growth in the mouse pancreatic tumor model. Our ssRNA origami strategy utilizes structured RNA ligands to achieve predictive immune activation, providing a new solution for nucleic acid sensor-based ligand design and biomedical applications.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1520-5126
- Volume :
- 145
- Issue :
- 31
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 37498993
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c03477