Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Linkage between endosomal escape of LNP-mRNA and loading into EVs for transport to other cells

  • Marco Maugeri,
  • Muhammad Nawaz,
  • Alexandros Papadimitriou,
  • Annelie Angerfors,
  • Alessandro Camponeschi,
  • Manli Na,
  • Mikko Hölttä,
  • Pia Skantze,
  • Svante Johansson,
  • Martina Sundqvist,
  • Johnny Lindquist,
  • Tomas Kjellman,
  • Inga-Lill Mårtensson,
  • Tao Jin,
  • Per Sunnerhagen,
  • Sofia Östman,
  • Lennart Lindfors,
  • Hadi Valadi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12275-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

Read online

Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are potential platforms for RNA-based therapeutics, but the fate of LNP-RNAs upon internalization into the cell is unclear. Here, the authors show that LNP-mRNAs and ionizable lipids escape the endosomes and are re-released via extracellular vesicles which could deliver the functional mRNA to other cells.