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RNA-Based Immunostimulatory Liposomal Spherical Nucleic Acids as Potent TLR7/8 Modulators.

ABSTRACT: Immunostimulatory spherical nucleic acids (IS-LSNAs) comprised of RNA selective for toll-like receptors (TLRs) 7/8 are synthesized and characterized. These structures consist of liposomal cores functionalized with a dense shell of RNA inserted into the wall of the lipid core via hydrophobic cholesterol moieties. IS-LSNAs potently activate TLR7/8 via NF-κΒ signaling in reporter cell lines and in primary immune cells as evidenced by cytokine production and the upregulation of costimulatory receptors. Importantly, they are preferentially taken up by plasmacytoid dendritic cells, an observation that makes them potentially useful for immunotherapy. In addition, these structures contain a core that can be loaded with antigens and used to prime T cells. In this regard, it is shown that dendritic cells treated with IS-SNAs loaded with ovalbumin peptide can prime ova specific CD8+ T cells. In addition to introducing the first IS-LSNAs consisting of RNA, these experiments show that one can facilitate an antigen-specific T cell response greater than that of free or cationic lipid-transfected RNA of the same sequence selective for TLR7/8. This work points toward the promise of using IS-LSNAs comprised of RNA as potent and highly tunable TLR-specific agents for the development of vaccines and other pharmaceuticals that require selective immunomodulation.

SUBMITTER: Guan C

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6397047 | biostudies-other | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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RNA-Based Immunostimulatory Liposomal Spherical Nucleic Acids as Potent TLR7/8 Modulators.

Guan Chenxia C Chernyak Natalia N Dominguez Donye D Cole Lisa L Zhang Bin B Mirkin Chad A CA

Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) 20181029 49

Immunostimulatory spherical nucleic acids (IS-LSNAs) comprised of RNA selective for toll-like receptors (TLRs) 7/8 are synthesized and characterized. These structures consist of liposomal cores functionalized with a dense shell of RNA inserted into the wall of the lipid core via hydrophobic cholesterol moieties. IS-LSNAs potently activate TLR7/8 via NF-κΒ signaling in reporter cell lines and in primary immune cells as evidenced by cytokine production and the upregulation of costimulatory recepto ...[more]

PMID: 30370991

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Project description:Liposomal spherical nucleic acids (LSNAs) are a class of nanomaterial used broadly for biomedical applications. Their intrinsic capacity to rapidly enter cells and engage cell surface and intracellular ligands stems from their unique three-dimensional architecture, which consists of densely packed and uniformly oriented oligonucleotides on the surface of a liposomal core. Such structures are promising for therapeutics because they can carry chemical cargo within the lipid core in addition to the nucleic acids that define them, in principle enabling delivery of multiple signals to a single cell. On the basis of these traits, we have designed novel dual-targeting LSNAs that deliver a nucleic acid specific for TLR9 inhibition and a small molecule (TAK-242) that inhibits TLR4. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play a large role in pathogen recognition and disease initiation, and TLR subtypes are differentially located within the lipid membranes of the cell surface and within intracellular endosomes. Oftentimes, in acute or chronic inflammatory conditions, multiple TLRs are activated, leading to stimulation of distinct, and sometimes overlapping, downstream pathways. As such, these inflammatory conditions may respond to attenuation of more than one initiating receptor. We show that dual targeting LSNAs, comprised of unilamellar liposomal cores, the INH-18 oligonucleotide sequence, and TAK-242 robustly inhibit TLR-9 and TLR-4 respectively, in engineered TLR reporter cells and primary mouse peritoneal macrophages. Importantly, the LSNAs exhibit up to a 10- and a 1000-fold increase, respectively, in TLR inhibition compared to the linear sequence and TAK-242 alone. Moreover, the timing of delivery is shown to be a critical factor in effecting TLR-inhibition, with near-complete TLR-4 inhibition occurring when cells were pretreated with SNAs for 4 h prior to stimulation. The most pronounced effect observed from this approach is the benefit of delivering the small molecule within the SNA via the receptor-mediated internalization pathway common to SNAs.

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RNA-Based Immunostimulatory Liposomal Spherical Nucleic Acids as Potent TLR7/8 Modulators.

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RNA-Based Immunostimulatory Liposomal Spherical Nucleic Acids as Potent TLR7/8 Modulators.

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