The molecular basis of translation initiation and its regulation in eukaryotes

J Brito Querido, I Díaz-López… - Nature Reviews Molecular …, 2024 - nature.com
The regulation of gene expression is fundamental for life. Whereas the role of transcriptional
regulation of gene expression has been studied for several decades, it has been clear over …

Advances in COVID-19 mRNA vaccine development

E Fang, X Liu, M Li, Z Zhang, L Song, B Zhu… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
To date, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has determined 399,600,607 cases and 5,757,562 …

Advances in antibody-based therapy in oncology

S Zinn, R Vazquez-Lombardi, C Zimmermann, P Sapra… - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Monoclonal antibodies are a growing class of targeted cancer therapeutics, characterized by
exquisite specificity, long serum half-life, high affinity and immune effector functions. In this …

Probing the dynamic RNA structurome and its functions

RC Spitale, D Incarnato - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
RNA is a key regulator of almost every cellular process, and the structures adopted by RNA
molecules are thought to be central to their functions. The recent fast-paced evolution of high …

mRNA vaccines for infectious diseases: principles, delivery and clinical translation

N Chaudhary, D Weissman… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Over the past several decades, messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines have progressed from a
scepticism-inducing idea to clinical reality. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic catalysed the …

mRNA vaccines for COVID-19: what, why and how

JW Park, PNP Lagniton, Y Liu… - International journal of …, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), has impacted human lives in the most profound …

mRNA vaccines for cancer immunotherapy

YL Vishweshwaraiah, NV Dokholyan - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Immunotherapy has emerged as a breakthrough strategy in cancer treatment. mRNA
vaccines are an attractive and powerful immunotherapeutic platform against cancer because …

A 5′ UTR language model for decoding untranslated regions of mRNA and function predictions

Y Chu, D Yu, Y Li, K Huang, Y Shen, L Cong… - Nature Machine …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The 5′ untranslated region (UTR), a regulatory region at the beginning of a
messenger RNA (mRNA) molecule, plays a crucial role in regulating the translation process …

Tailor made: the art of therapeutic mRNA design

M Metkar, CS Pepin, MJ Moore - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract mRNA medicine is a new and rapidly develo** field in which the delivery of
genetic information in the form of mRNA is used to direct therapeutic protein production in …

Nucleic acid degradation as barrier to gene delivery: a guide to understand and overcome nuclease activity

H Zhang, J Vandesompele, K Braeckmans… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Gene therapy is on its way to revolutionize the treatment of both inherited and acquired
diseases, by transferring nucleic acids to correct a disease-causing gene in the target cells …