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  • Adjuvants can boost innate immune activation and vaccine efficacy.
  • Suboptimal vaccine kinetics can impair mRNA translation and vaccine potency via mTORC1 inhibition.

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  • To develop a novel mRNA platform for improved vaccine kinetics and efficacy.
  • To overcome limitations of current mRNA vaccine designs related to immune activation timing.
  • To enhance antitumor immune responses using a precisely controlled expression system.

Main Methods:

  • Development of time-ordered-expression mRNA (TOE mRNA) utilizing ADAR-mediated A-to-I base editing.
  • Engineering mRNA to express antigen immediately and adjuvant with a 12-hour delay.
  • Utilizing TOE mRNA encoding a tumor neoantigen and an IL-12 adjuvant in preclinical models.

Main Results:

  • TOE mRNA ensures immediate antigen translation followed by delayed adjuvant expression.
  • Delayed adjuvant release sustains the mTORC1 pathway activation and robust antigen expression.
  • Vaccines employing TOE mRNA demonstrated significantly enhanced antitumor immune responses.

Conclusions:

  • TOE mRNA technology offers a strategy to optimize mRNA vaccine kinetics.
  • This approach overcomes limitations associated with premature innate immune over-activation.
  • TOE mRNA represents a promising platform for next-generation, highly effective mRNA vaccines.