Authors
Xinlin Lei, Didi Chen, Kun Zhang, Xiyu Liu, Qiubing Chen, Yizhou Zhang, Ruijin Ji, Jicheng Zhu, Qingyi Zhang, Ying Zhang, Hao Yin
Published in
Nature biomedical engineering. Sep 11, 2026. Epub Sep 11, 2026.
Abstract
Prime editing holds promise for therapeutic applications. However, viral delivery of the prime editor presents challenges for clinical translation due to concerns regarding long-term expression. Meanwhile, systemic delivery using non-viral vectors has been limited by low efficiency, the need for repeated injections and reliance on doses that exceed clinically translatable levels. Here we develop engineered prime editing guide RNAs (pegRNAs) with densely modified RNA motifs and demonstrate their application for efficient in vivo prime editing. By systemically delivering the prime editor in RNA format via a single injection of lipid nanoparticles, we achieved nearly 70% editing efficiency in the bulk mouse liver, indicating successful editing of the majority of hepatocytes. Notably, a single injection at a clinically translatable lipid nanoparticle dose was sufficient to suppress target protein expression in vivo, resulting in a near 80-fold increase in editing efficiency compared with conventional end-modified pegRNAs. Furthermore, incorporating densely modified RNA motifs, including the widely used MS2 motif, proved broadly applicable across various RNA sequences and split RNA-guided genome editing platforms, resulting in up to an 11-fold increase in base editing efficiency. These findings present a generalizable approach for enhancing the therapeutic potential of prime editing and expanding the utility of RNA-based therapeutics.
PMID:
42728339
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 12 Sep 2026.
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