Strategies for controlling the innate immune activity of conventional and self-amplifying mRNA therapeutics: Getting the message across

AK Minnaert, H Vanluchene, R Verbeke… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
The recent approval of messenger RNA (mRNA)-based vaccines to combat the SARS-CoV-
2 pandemic highlights the potential of both conventional mRNA and self-amplifying mRNA …

mRNA therapeutics deliver a hopeful message

Z Zhong, S Mc Cafferty, F Combes, H Huysmans… - Nano today, 2018 - Elsevier
Messenger RNA based therapeutics have the potential to cause a big revolution in medicine
as they can facilitate personalized medicines and allow patients to produce their own …

LY6E impairs coronavirus fusion and confers immune control of viral disease

S Pfaender, KB Mar, E Michailidis, A Kratzel… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Zoonotic coronaviruses (CoVs) are substantial threats to global health, as exemplified by the
emergence of two severe acute respiratory syndrome CoVs (SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2) …

A diverse range of gene products are effectors of the type I interferon antiviral response

JW Schoggins, SJ Wilson, M Panis, MY Murphy… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
The type I interferon response protects cells against invading viral pathogens. The cellular
factors that mediate this defence are the products of interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs) …

IFITM3 directly engages and shuttles incoming virus particles to lysosomes

JS Spence, R He, HH Hoffmann, T Das… - Nature chemical …, 2019 - nature.com
Interferon-induced transmembrane proteins (IFITMs 1, 2 and 3) have emerged as important
innate immune effectors that prevent diverse virus infections in vertebrates. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient generation of human iPSCs by a synthetic self-replicative RNA

N Yoshioka, E Gros, HR Li, S Kumar, DC Deacon… - Cell stem cell, 2013 - cell.com
The generation of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) holds great promise for the
development of regenerative medicine therapies to treat a wide range of human diseases …

Mammalian synthetic circuits with RNA binding proteins for RNA-only delivery

L Wroblewska, T Kitada, K Endo, V Siciliano… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Synthetic regulatory circuits encoded in RNA rather than DNA could provide a means to
control cell behavior while avoiding potentially harmful genomic integration in therapeutic …

New World and Old World alphaviruses have evolved to exploit different components of stress granules, FXR and G3BP proteins, for assembly of viral replication …

DY Kim, JM Reynaud, A Rasalouskaya… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The positive-strand RNA viruses initiate their amplification in the cell from a single genome
delivered by virion. This single RNA molecule needs to become involved in replication …

A dual-antigen self-amplifying RNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccine induces potent humoral and cellular immune responses and protects against SARS-CoV-2 variants through …

S McCafferty, AKMA Haque, A Vandierendonck… - Molecular Therapy, 2022 - cell.com
Self-amplifying RNA vaccines may induce equivalent or more potent immune responses at
lower doses compared to non-replicating mRNA vaccines via amplified antigen expression …

Evasion of the innate immune response: the Old World alphavirus nsP2 protein induces rapid degradation of Rpb1, a catalytic subunit of RNA polymerase II

I Akhrymuk, SV Kulemzin, EI Frolova - Journal of virology, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT The Old World alphaviruses are emerging human pathogens with an ability to
cause widespread epidemics. The latest epidemic of Chikungunya virus, from 2005 to 2007 …