Journal
MOLECULAR PHARMACEUTICS
Volume 15, Issue 9, Pages 3909-3919Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.8b00370
Keywords
mRNA nanoparticles; in vivo mRNA delivery; detection method for mRNA nanoparticle delivery; whole organ X-Gal staining
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- Stiftung Rheinland-Pfalz fur Innovation
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Targeting mRNA to eukaryotic cells is an emerging technology for basic research and provides broad applications in cancer immunotherapy, vaccine development, protein replacement, and in vivo genome editing. Although a plethora of nanoparticles for efficient mRNA delivery exists, in vivo mRNA targeting to specific organs, tissue compartments, and cells remains a major challenge. For this reason, methods for reporting the in vivo targeting specificity of different mRNA nanoparticle formats will be crucial. Here, we describe a straightforward method for monitoring the in vivo targeting efficiency of mRNA-loaded nanoparticles in mice. To achieve accurate mRNA delivery readouts, we loaded lipoplex nanoparticles with Cre-recombinase-encoding mRNA and injected these into commonly used Cre reporter mouse strains. Our results show that this approach provides readouts that accurately report the targeting efficacy of mRNA into organs, tissue structures, and single cells as a function of the used mRNA delivery system. The method described here establishes a versatile basis for determining in vivo mRNA targeting profiles and can be systematically applied for testing and improving mRNA packaging formats.
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