Cap analogs with a hydrophobic photocleavable tag enable facile purification of fully capped mRNA with various cap structures.
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摘要
Removing immunogenic uncapped mRNA from in vitro transcribed mRNA is critical in mRNA research and clinical applications. Commonly used capping methods provide a maximum capping efficiency of around 80-90% for widely used Cap-0- and Cap-1-type mRNAs. However, uncapped and capped mRNA possesses almost identical physicochemical properties, posing challenges to their physical separation. Herein, we developed hydrophobic photocaged tag-modified cap analogs, which separated capped mRNA from uncapped mRNA by reversed-phase HPLC. Subsequent photo-irradiation recovers footprint-free native capped mRNA. This approach provided 100% capping efficiency even in Cap-2-type mRNA with versatility applicable to 650 nt and 4,247 nt mRNA. The Cap-2-type mRNA showed up to 3 to 4-fold higher translational activity in cultured cells and animals than mRNA prepared by the standard capping method. Notably, the purification process simultaneously removed immunogenic double-stranded mRNA, another major contaminant of in vitro transcribed mRNA, drastically reducing mRNA immunogenicity in cultured cells.
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