mRNA-based vaccines and therapeutics: An in-depth survey of current and upcoming clinical applications

YS Wang, M Kumari, GH Chen, MH Hong… - Journal of Biomedical …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract mRNA-based drugs have tremendous potential as clinical treatments, however, a
major challenge in realizing this drug class will promise to develop methods for safely …

Enhancement of the viability of T cells electroporated with DNA via osmotic dampening of the DNA-sensing cGAS–STING pathway

J An, CP Zhang, HY Qiu, HX Zhang, QB Chen… - Nature Biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
Viral delivery of DNA for the targeted reprogramming of human T cells can lead to random
genomic integration, and electroporation is inefficient and can be toxic. Here we show that …

Genome and transcriptome engineering by compact and versatile CRISPR-Cas systems

G Aquino-Jarquin - Drug Discovery Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Comparative genomics has enabled the discovery of tiny clustered regularly interspaced
short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) bacterial immune system effectors with enormous …

Rapid generation of long, chemically modified pegRNAs for prime editing

X Lei, A Huang, D Chen, X Wang, R Ji, J Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The editing efficiencies of prime editing (PE) using ribonucleoprotein (RNP) and RNA
delivery are not optimal due to the challenges in solid-phase synthesis of long PE guide …

Amplification editing enables efficient and precise duplication of DNA from short sequence to megabase and chromosomal scale

R Zhang, Z He, Y Shi, X Sun, X Chen, G Wang… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Duplication is a foundation of molecular evolution and a driver of genomic and complex
diseases. Here, we develop a genome editing tool named Amplification Editing (AE) that …

Safer and efficient base editing and prime editing via ribonucleoproteins delivered through optimized lipid-nanoparticle formulations

R Hołubowicz, SW Du, J Felgner, R Smidak… - Nature Biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
Delivering ribonucleoproteins (RNPs) for in vivo genome editing is safer than using viruses
encoding for Cas9 and its respective guide RNA. However, transient RNP activity does not …

Base editing of the HBG promoter induces potent fetal hemoglobin expression with no detectable off-target mutations in human HSCs

W Han, HY Qiu, S Sun, ZC Fu, GQ Wang, X Qian… - Cell Stem Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Reactivating silenced γ-globin expression through the disruption of repressive regulatory
domains offers a therapeutic strategy for treating β-hemoglobinopathies. Here, we used …

Fast and sensitive CRISPR detection by minimized interference of target amplification

X Tong, K Zhang, Y Han, T Li, M Duan, R Ji… - Nature Chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
Despite the great potential of CRISPR-based detection, it has not been competitive with
other market diagnostics for on-site and in-home testing. Here we dissect the rate-limiting …

PD-1 signaling negatively regulates the common cytokine receptor γ chain via MARCH5-mediated ubiquitination and degradation to suppress anti-tumor immunity

R Liu, LW Zeng, HF Li, JG Shi, B Zhong, HB Shu, S Li - Cell Research, 2023 - nature.com
Combination therapy with PD-1 blockade and IL-2 substantially improves anti-tumor efficacy
comparing to monotherapy. The underlying mechanisms responsible for the synergistic …

Epitope prime editing shields hematopoietic cells from CD123 immunotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia

RJ Ji, GH Cao, WQ Zhao, MY Wang, P Gao, YZ Zhang… - Cell Stem Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a malignant cancer characterized by abnormal
differentiation of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs). While chimeric antigen …