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Acacetin-incorporated lipid nanoparticles for inhaled mRNA vaccines

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Xuefeng Huang
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Kaiyu Fan
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Yuxuan Zhang
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Yuanjiao Yang
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Yubo Wang
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Xujia Yang
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Zilin Meng
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Qiang Guo
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Yue Li
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Ningqiang Gong
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Shunhao Wang *
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Jinghong Li *
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Zhen Zhang *
DOI:10.1039/D5NH00794Adelete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Inhaled mRNA vaccines have shown great promise for the prevention of respiratory diseases. However; their broad application is still restricted by lipid nanoparticle (LNP)-induced oxidative stress; rapid clearance of LNPs from the lung; and limited mRNA expression. Here; we show that incorporating a natural compound; acacetin; into the LNP formulation can overcome these delivery barriers and greatly improve inhaled vaccine effectiveness. A natural compound library containing 242 compounds was used in an in vitro screening experiment; and acacetin was identified as the lead compound that substantially increased LNP-mediated mRNA expression in A549 cells. We then incorporated acacetin in LNPs as a fifth component. After optimizing the formulation of LNPs in in vitro transfection assays and in vivo pulmonary delivery assays; we find acacetin-incorporated LNPs increased lung transfection by 10.82-fold. A mechanistic study showed that acacetin reshaped the intracellular environment of lung cells by activating antioxidant stress pathways and suppressing pro-inflammatory signaling; thereby maintaining high levels of mRNA translation. Inhaled administration of acacetin-incorporated LNPs; delivering mRNA encoding the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein; induced higher antigen-specific IgG (14.95-fold) and IgA (2.38-fold) levels than a conventional LNP formulation; without inducing toxicity. We demonstrate that acacetin-incorporated LNPs offer a simple and scalable strategy to improve the efficacy of inhaled mRNA vaccines.

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nanoscale horiz.
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tsinghua university
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Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital
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gansu agricultural university
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beijing life science academy
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University of Science and Technology of China
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