Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Combinatorial optimization of mRNA structure, stability, and translation for RNA-based therapeutics

  • Kathrin Leppek,
  • Gun Woo Byeon,
  • Wipapat Kladwang,
  • Hannah K. Wayment-Steele,
  • Craig H. Kerr,
  • Adele F. Xu,
  • Do Soon Kim,
  • Ved V. Topkar,
  • Christian Choe,
  • Daphna Rothschild,
  • Gerald C. Tiu,
  • Roger Wellington-Oguri,
  • Kotaro Fujii,
  • Eesha Sharma,
  • Andrew M. Watkins,
  • John J. Nicol,
  • Jonathan Romano,
  • Bojan Tunguz,
  • Fernando Diaz,
  • Hui Cai,
  • Pengbo Guo,
  • Jiewei Wu,
  • Fanyu Meng,
  • Shuai Shi,
  • Eterna Participants,
  • Philip R. Dormitzer,
  • Alicia Solórzano,
  • Maria Barna,
  • Rhiju Das

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28776-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 22

Abstract

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The authors develop an RNA sequencing-based platform, PERSIST-seq, to simultaneously delineate in-cell mRNA stability, ribosome load, and in-solution stability of a diverse mRNA library to derive design principles for improved mRNA therapeutics.