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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
卷 49, 期 18, 页码 10604-10617出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkab764
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- National Science Foundation [GRFP]
- Stanford University Graduate Research Fellowship
- National Institute of Health [R35 GM122579]
- FastGrants
RNA hydrolysis poses challenges for mRNA-based vaccines and therapeutics due to issues in manufacturing, long-term storage, global delivery, and in vivo stability. Redesigning RNAs to form double-stranded regions could reduce hydrolysis, with algorithms like those on the Eterna platform showing promise in creating 'superfolder' mRNAs with increased stability and diverse features beneficial for translation and immunogenicity. Ongoing research aims to maximize mRNA stability and longevity through innovative design strategies and computational approaches.
RNA hydrolysis presents problems in manufacturing, long-term storage, world-wide delivery and in vivo stability of messenger RNA (mRNA)-based vaccines and therapeutics. A largely unexplored strategy to reduce mRNA hydrolysis is to redesign RNAs to form double-stranded regions, which are protected from in-line cleavage and enzymatic degradation, while coding for the same proteins. The amount of stabilization that this strategy can deliver and the most effective algorithmic approach to achieve stabilization remain poorly understood. Here, we present simple calculations for estimating RNA stability against hydrolysis, and a model that links the average unpaired probability of an mRNA, or AUP, to its overall hydrolysis rate. To characterize the stabilization achievable through structure design, we compare AUP optimization by conventional mRNA design methods to results from more computationally sophisticated algorithms and crowdsourcing through the OpenVaccine challenge on the Eterna platform. We find that rational design on Eterna and the more sophisticated algorithms lead to constructs with low AUP, which we term 'superfolder' mRNAs. These designs exhibit a wide diversity of sequence and structure features that may be desirable for translation, biophysical size, and immunogenicity. Furthermore, their folding is robust to temperature, computer modeling method, choice of flanking untranslated regions, and changes in target protein sequence, as illustrated by rapid redesign of superfolder mRNAs for B.1.351, P.1 and B.1.1.7 variants of the prefusion-stabilized SARS-CoV-2 spike protein. Increases in in vitro mRNA half-life by at least two-fold appear immediately achievable.
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