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RNA vaccine

Indications: - treatment of cutaneous melanoma, including late-stage melanoma [1] Advantages: - can be produced rapidly - elicit both antibody & T-cell responses Procedure: - typically enclosed in lipid nanocapsules - injected & taken up by host dendritic cells - the dendritic cells produce mRNA-encoded peptides (immunogens) in conjunction with major histocompatibility complex I proteins to elicit T-cell response

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References

  1. Sahin U et al. An RNA vaccine drives immunity in checkpoint-inhibitor-treated melanoma. Nature 2020 Sep; 585:107. PMID: 32728218 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2537-9