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Discover the game-changing potential of Lipid Nanoparticles in our latest article! From the approval of Onpattro® in 2018 to the global success of mRNA-LNP COVID-19 vaccines, LNPs are shaping the future of genetic therapeutics. Recent FDA clearances are paving the way for LNP-based gene editing trials by companies like Omega Therapeutics and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, targeting conditions such as hepatocellular carcinoma and cystic fibrosis. At Helix Biotech, we delve into the intricate mechanisms of LNPs, exploring how they package, protect, and deliver mRNA for targeted gene expression. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/g9GaeT52 Author: Michael Hai Luu Nguyen, Ph.D. #biotech #drugdelivery #mrna #vaccines #lnp
Mechanisms of LNP-Mediated mRNA Delivery
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🚀 📄 Amazing review on RNA-based medicines from John Androsavich! RNA-based therapeutics hold a lot of promise due to their multiple mechanism of actions, allowing to correct gene expression levels or edit genes altogether. Many different modalities exist, from anti-sense oligonucleotides (ASOs) aptamers and short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) to mRNA vaccines and CRISPR-based drug products for in vivo gene editing. If you want to understand more about advantes and limitations, have a look at the review. Summarising below a few current limitations: 📌 ADME profile is fundamentally limited 📌 Narrow margin of safety 📌 Complex delivery #RNA #drugs #pharma
Frameworks for transformational breakthroughs in RNA-based medicines - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
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Several KRAS wild-type genotypes, including NRAS and HRAS mutant cell lines (median EC50 = 6.76 nM), and cell lines with mutationally activated RTKs also responded to RMC-7977 inhibition, including those with mutations or fusions of EGFR, ERBB3, FGFR1, FGFR2, FGFR3, ROS1, RET, NTRK1 and ALK (median EC50 = 6.14 nM), and cell lines with wild-type MET gene amplification (median EC50 = 6.61 nM; Extended Data Fig
Concurrent inhibition of oncogenic and wild-type RAS-GTP for cancer therapy
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#SpeakingofScience: Despite early setbacks, Antisense Oligonucleotide (ASO) Therapeutics are poised fro a resurgence in #drugdiscovery. Since the FDA approved formivirsen in 1998, technological advancements and a growing market for ultra-rare #genetic disease treatments are driving renewed interest in #ASO development. Pioneers like Dr. Stanley Crooke are optimistic, especially in targeting genetic #rarediseases! #DrugDevelopment #ASOTherapeutics #innovationinhealthcare #medicalresarch https://lnkd.in/gc-a82pW
Fostering the Next Generation of Antisense Oligonucleotide Therapies - MedCity News
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Bispecific antibodies (bsAbs) are a fast-growing group of therapeutic antibodies. Antibody Therapeutics (2023 CiteScore: 8.7), the official journal of Chinese Antibody Society published by Oxford University Press would like to highlight selected articles on this topic. The 4th paper we would like to share is entitled “Vector design for enhancing expression level and assembly of knob-into-hole based FabscFv-Fc bispecific antibodies in CHO cells” contributed by Yuansheng Yang from A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research. Two-armed FabscFv-Fc is a favoured bispecific antibody formats but challenging to produce. This paper presents a general strategy to customize the expression ratios of polypeptide chains to produce correctly assembled FabscFv-Fc at high titres. Similar approach can also be applied to optimize the production of other formats of bispecific antibody classes. Click the link for the free access of the full text of the article: https://lnkd.in/eH5yh-A6 We are also welcoming therapeutic antibody related submission through https://lnkd.in/dMJjtiD #Antibody #Therapeutics #BispecificAb #CMC
Vector design for enhancing expression level and assembly of knob-into-hole based FabscFv-Fc bispecific antibodies in CHO cells
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Feb 2024 will be an exciting time for genetic diseases treatment. Two genetic diseases in particular: glycogen storage disease type Ia (GSDIa) and Polycythemia vera (PV). You might have never heard two diseases before but you must know blood sugar and red blood cells are pretty important. In short, GSDIa is genetic condition that the body is not having the enzyme to breakdown glycogen to produce glucose during times of fasting. PV is genetic condition that in which the bone marrow makes too many red blood cells as well as white blood cells and platelets, making the normal blood become very “thick”. Those two conditions are both having high unmet medical needs. However, great news, that may change in near future. First, DTX401 developed by Ultragenyx (NASDAQ: RARE) for the potential treatment of GSDIa. Ultragenyx is an American biopharmaceutical company involved in the research and development of novel products for treatment of rare and ultra-rare genetic diseases for which there are typically no approved treatments and high unmet medical need. DTX401 is an investigational AAV8 gene therapy designed to deliver stable expression and activity of G6Pase-α using a single intravenous infusion. There is currently no approved treatment for GSDIa and DTX401 might be the answer, as granted Orphan Drug Designation in the United States, EU and United Kingdom, and Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) designation and Fast Track designation in the United States. Next, Rusfertide developed by Protagonist Therapeutics. Protagonist Therapeutics (NASDAQ: PTGX) is a biopharmaceutical company that develops peptide-based new chemical entities (NCEs) for rare and prevalent diseases with unmet medical needs. Newly announced last week on 31st Jan 2024, Takeda Will Be Protagonist’s Co-Development, U.S. Co-Commercialization Partner With 50:50 Profit Share, and With Exclusive Ex-U.S. Global Rights to Commercialize Rusfertide. This is highly anticipated by PV patients given that Rusfertide has been granted by FDA as breakthrough therapy designation. 2024 is shaping up to be an exciting year for breakthroughs in treating these genetic diseases. Let's keep our eyes on these developments. #GeneticDiseases #Innovation #Healthcare #Biotechnology #Ultragenyx #ProtagonistTherapeutics #DTX401 #Rusfertide
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🔬 Exciting news! Our latest #researchpaper has just been published in Nucleic Acid Therapeutics (Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.)! In the publication entitled "Characterization of the TLR9-Activating Potential of LNA-Modified Antisense Oligonucleotides," our team conducted a comprehensive investigation into the toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9)-dependent immunostimulatory potential of locked nucleic acid antisense oligonucleotides (LNA ASOs). We found that TLR9-mediated unspecific immune stimulation, a frequent undesired side effect in earlier generations of ASOs, can also occur with LNA ASOs. Our results further indicated that TLR9-dependent immunostimulatory potential is an individual feature of an ASO that must be investigated on a case-by-case basis. However, the application of sophisticated test systems allows for the identification of ASOs targeting different genes, achieving potent target knockdown without TLR9 stimulation. Read the full article here (open access): https://lnkd.in/dmeebVgq 📚 Big shout-out to our first author Irene Riera Tur, PhD and all co-authors: Julia Hinterdobler, Andre Maaske, Anne Sadewasser, Monika Schell, Janani Sekar, Sven Michel, Richard Klar, and Frank Jaschinski. #drugdevelopment #science
Characterization of the TLR9-Activating Potential of LNA-Modified Antisense Oligonucleotides | Nucleic Acid Therapeutics
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Do we know that a common anticancer drug, 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), may potentially kill patients instead of treating them? 🤔 Unfortunately, this tragedy happened recently where a patient (a medical doctor himself) succumbed to the toxicity of 5-FU (https://lnkd.in/grGSQDcp). 😢 How is 5-FU processed in our body? 🤔 5-FU is primarily processed (metabolized) by an enzyme known as dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD). The remaining 5-FU binds irreversibly to genetic materials (RNA and DNA) which is how 5-FU kills cancer cells. 👇 Do we all have the same level of DPD activity in our body and what is the implication? 🤔 No, DPD activities show inter-individual variability. There is ample evidence to suggest that a systemic low DPD activity is associated with an increased risk of development of severe 5-FU-associated toxicity. Can we have an example of reason behind low DPD activity? 🤔 Mutations of human DPD gene (DPYD) may lead to reduced or zero DPD activity. One example is a genetic variant, DYPD*2A allele (IVS14+1G>A mutation), which has a greatly diminished DPD activity compared to wild-type *1 allele. Question: 🤔 When the blood area under the curve (AUC or systemic exposure) of 5-FU was compared, the average AUC value in the *2A/*2A group was greater by approximately 5-fold than that in the *1/*1 group. Assuming *2A variant of DPD shows no enzymatic activity against 5-FU, calculate and estimate the contribution of DPD (fraction metabolized, fm) to the overall elimination of 5-FU. Express fm as a ratio. Note that fm’ refers to the fraction of 5-FU eliminated via its adduction to genetic materials. 👇 Here we also assume 5-FU was given intravenously (iv) and kidney (renal) elimination is minimal. For those who wish to be further challenged: estimate the fold-change in AUC for the heterozygote *1/*2A variant. I hope you like what I share in this basic #pharmacokinetics #concepts #Season2 #Post8. Do look out for my next posts on PK concepts. #Pharmacokinetics #Concepts #LearningWithoutBarriers #WeeklyDoseOfPK
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In a newly published paper, University of Montpellier authors report details of IMGT/mAb-KG, a knowledge graph for therapeutic monoclonal antibodies connected to IMGT structures and genomics databases. As described in the summary, IMGT/mAb-KG is linked to other resources such as Thera-SAbDab (Therapeutic Structural Antibody Database), PharmGKB (a comprehensive resource curating knowledge on the impact of genetic variation on drug response), PubMed, and HGNC (HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee). A user-friendly web interface facilitates the exploration and analyses of IMGT/mAb-KG content. #mabs https://lnkd.in/eXY2_XhK
Frontiers | IMGT/mAb-KG: the knowledge graph for therapeutic monoclonal antibodies
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#CAR NK-92 cell–mediated depletion of residual TCR+ cells for ultrapure allogeneic TCR-deleted CAR T-cell products :- •Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a major risk of the administration of allogeneic chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-redirected T cells to patients who are HLA unmatched. •Gene editing can be used to disrupt potentially alloreactive T-cell receptors (TCRs) in CAR T cells and reduce the risk of GVHD. •Despite the high knockout rates achieved with the optimized methods, a subsequent purification step is necessary to obtain a safe allogeneic product. •To date, magnetic cell separation (MACS) has been the gold standard for purifying TCRα/β– CAR T cells, but product purity can still be insufficient to prevent GVHD. •We developed a novel and highly efficient approach to eliminate residual TCR/CD3+ T cells after TCRα constant (TRAC) gene editing by adding a genetically modified CD3-specific CAR NK-92 cell line during ex vivo expansion. •Two consecutive cocultures with irradiated, short-lived, CAR NK-92 cells allowed for the production of TCR– CAR T cells with <0.01% TCR+ T cells, marking a 45-fold reduction of TCR+ cells compared with MACS purification. •Through an NK-92 cell–mediated feeder effect and circumventing MACS-associated cell loss, our approach increased the total TCR– CAR T-cell yield approximately threefold while retaining cytotoxic activity and a favorable T-cell phenotype. •Scaling in a semiclosed G-Rex bioreactor device provides a proof-of-principle for large-batch manufacturing, allowing for an improved cost-per-dose ratio. •Overall, this cell-mediated purification method has the potential to advance the production process of safe off-the-shelf CAR T cells for clinical applications. #Keypoints :- •Addition of short-lived TCR-specific CAR NK-92 cells allows efficient depletion of TCR+ cells during expansion of TCR-edited CAR T cells. •NK cell–mediated purification increases the purity and yield of TCR-deleted CAR T cells without affecting their effector function.
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