A Reverse Transcription Nucleic-Acid-Based Barcoding System for In Vivo Measurement of Lipid Nanoparticle mRNA Delivery

IF 3.8 Q2 BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

ACS Bio & Med Chem Au Pub Date : 2025-02-05 DOI:10.1021/acsbiomedchemau.4c0008110.1021/acsbiomedchemau.4c00081

Kevin C. Wang, Tiana L. Young, Jingan Chen, Shannon N. Tsai, Yue Xu, Andrew J. Varley, Nicholas C. Solek, Fanglin Gong, Rick X. Z. Lu, Basil P. Hubbard and Bowen Li*,

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Abstract

Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are the most extensively validated clinical delivery vehicles for mRNA therapeutics, exemplified by their widespread use in the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. The pace of lipid nanoparticle (LNP) development for mRNA therapeutics is restricted by the limitations of existing methods for large-scale LNP screening. To address this challenge, we developed Quantitative Analysis of Reverse Transcribed Barcodes (QuART), a novel nucleic-acid-based system for measuring LNP functional delivery in vivo. QuART uses a bacterial retron reverse transcription system to couple functional mRNA delivery into the cytoplasm with a cDNA barcode readout. Our results demonstrate that QuART can be used to identify functional mRNA delivery both in vitro in cell culture and in vivo in mice. Multiplexing of QuART could enable high-throughput screening of LNP formulations, facilitating the rapid discovery of promising LNP candidates for mRNA therapeutics.

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