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  • Title: Engineering branched ionizable lipid for hepatic delivery of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat-Cas9 ribonucleoproteins.
    Author: Onuma H, Shimizu R, Suzuki Y, Sato M, Harashima H, Sato Y.
    Journal: iScience; 2024 Oct 18; 27(10):110928. PubMed ID: 39381750.
    Abstract:
    The delivery of the CRISPR/Cas ribonucleoprotein (RNP) has received attention for clinical applications owing to its high efficiency with few off-target effects. Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are potential non-viral vectors for the delivery of RNPs. Herein, we report the engineering of a branched scaffold structure of ionizable lipids for the hepatic delivery of RNPs. Both the total carbon number and branching position were critical for the functional delivery of RNPs. The optimal ionizable lipid exhibited a more than 98% reduction in transthyretin protein after a single dose with no obvious signs of toxicity. The mechanistic study has revealed that optimal LNPs have a unique "flower-like structure" that depends on both the lipid structure and the payload and that these LNPs accumulate in hepatocytes in an apolipoprotein E-independent manner. These results represent a major step toward the realization of in vivo genome editing therapy via RNP delivery using chemically synthesizable LNP formulations.
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