| Literature DB >> 22908294 |
Andrew J Geall1, Ayush Verma, Gillis R Otten, Christine A Shaw, Armin Hekele, Kaustuv Banerjee, Yen Cu, Clayton W Beard, Luis A Brito, Thomas Krucker, Derek T O'Hagan, Manmohan Singh, Peter W Mason, Nicholas M Valiante, Philip R Dormitzer, Susan W Barnett, Rino Rappuoli, Jeffrey B Ulmer, Christian W Mandl.
Abstract
Despite more than two decades of research and development on nucleic acid vaccines, there is still no commercial product for human use. Taking advantage of the recent innovations in systemic delivery of short interfering RNA (siRNA) using lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), we developed a self-amplifying RNA vaccine. Here we show that nonviral delivery of a 9-kb self-amplifying RNA encapsulated within an LNP substantially increased immunogenicity compared with delivery of unformulated RNA. This unique vaccine technology was found to elicit broad, potent, and protective immune responses, that were comparable to a viral delivery technology, but without the inherent limitations of viral vectors. Given the many positive attributes of nucleic acid vaccines, our results suggest that a comprehensive evaluation of nonviral technologies to deliver self-amplifying RNA vaccines is warranted.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID： 22908294 PMCID： PMC3437863 DOI： 10.1073/pnas.1209367109
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN： 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205