Lipid nanoparticles-loaded with toxin mRNA represents a new strategy for the treatment of solid tumors.

ABSTRACT: Background and rationale: Cancer therapy have evolved remarkably over the past decade, providing new strategies to inhibit cancer cell growth using immune modulation, with or without gene therapy. Specifically, suicide gene therapies and immunotoxins have been investigated for the treatment of tumors by direct cancer cell cytotoxicity. Recent advances in mRNA delivery also demonstrated the potential of mRNA-based vaccines and immune-modulators for cancer therapeutics by utilizing nanocarriers for mRNA delivery. Methods: We designed a bacterial toxin-encoding modified mRNA, delivered by lipid nanoparticles into a B16-melanoma mouse model. Results: We showed that local administration of LNPs entrapping a modified mRNA that encodes for a bacterial toxin, induced significa

SUBMITTER: Granot-Matok Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10334842 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature