Short description: Type of vaccine
mRNA in vitro transcription and innate immunity activation.

A ribonucleic acid (RNA) vaccine or messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine is a type of vaccine that uses a copy of a molecule called messenger RNA (mRNA) to produce an immune response.[1] The vaccine transfects molecules of synthetic RNA into immune cells, where the vaccine functions as mRNA, causing the cells to build foreign protein that would normally be produced by a pathogen (such as a virus) or by a cancer cell. These protein molecules stimulate an adaptive immune response which teaches the body to identify and destroy the corresponding pathogen or cancer cells.[1] The mRNA is delivered by a co-formulation of the RNA encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles which protect the RNA strands and help their absorption into the cells.[2][3]

Reactogenicity, the tendency of a vaccine to produce adverse reactions, is similar to that of conventional non-RNA vaccines.[4] People susceptible to an autoimmune response may have an adverse reaction to RNA vaccines.[4] The advantages of RNA vaccines over traditional protein vaccines are ease of design, speed and lower cost of production, and the induction of both cellular and humoral immunity.[5][6] RNA vaccines, such as the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, have the disadvantage of requiring ultracold storage before distribution;[1] other mRNA vaccines, such as the Moderna, CureVac, and Walvax COVID-19 vaccines, do not require such ultracold storage temperatures.[7][8]

In RNA therapeutics, mRNA vaccines have attracted considerable interest as COVID-19 vaccines.[1] In December 2020, Pfizer–BioNTech and Moderna obtained approval for their mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines. On 2 December, the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) became the first medicines regulator to approve an mRNA vaccine, authorizing the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine for widespread use.[9][10][11] On 11 December, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorization for the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine[12][13] and a week later similarly approved the Moderna vaccine.[14][15]

The use of RNA in vaccines has occasioned substantial misinformation in social media, wrongly claiming that the introduction of RNA alters a person's DNA.[16][17]

History

Early research

Timeline of some key discoveries and advances in the development of mRNA-based drug technology.

The first successful transfection of mRNA packaged within a liposomal nanoparticle into a cell was published in 1989.[18][19] "Naked" (or unprotected) mRNA was injected a year later into the muscle of mice.[3][20] These studies were the first evidence that in vitro transcribed mRNA could deliver the genetic information to produce proteins within living cell tissue[3] and led to the concept proposal of messenger RNA vaccines.[21][22]

Liposome-encapsulated mRNA was shown in 1993 to stimulate T-cells in mice,[23][24] and mRNA proved useful two years later to elicit both humoral and cellular immune response against a pathogen.[3][25][26]

Development

Successful application of modified nucleosides as a medium to get mRNA inside cells without setting off the body's defense system was reported in 2005.[3][27] The companies, BioNTech in 2008 and Moderna in 2010, were started to develop mRNA biotechnologies.[28][29]

US government agency DARPA launched in 2010 a biotech research program called ADEPT as part of its mission to develop emerging technologies for the US military.[30] DARPA recognized a year later the potential of nucleic acid technology for defense against pandemics and began to invest in the field through ADEPT.[30][31] DARPA's grants were seen as a vote of confidence which in turn encouraged other government agencies and private investors to also invest in mRNA technology.[31] In 2013, DARPA awarded a $25 million grant to Moderna.[32]

mRNA drugs for cardiovascular, metabolic and renal diseases, and selected targets for cancer were initially linked to serious side effects.[33][34] mRNA vaccines for human use have been studied for rabies, Zika virus disease, cytomegalovirus, and influenza.[35]

Acceleration

In December 2020, BioNTech and Moderna obtained approval for their mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines. On 2 December, seven days after its final eight-week trial, the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), became the first global medicines regulator in history to approve an mRNA vaccine, granting emergency authorization for Pfizer–BioNTech's BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine for widespread use.[9][10][36] On 11 December, the FDA gave emergency use authorization for the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and a week later similar approval for the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.[37]

Mechanism

Further information: Biology:Immune system
An illustration of the mechanism of action of the RNA vaccine

The goal of a vaccine is to stimulate the adaptive immune system to create antibodies that precisely target that particular pathogen. The markers on the pathogen that the antibodies target are called antigens.[38]

mRNA vaccines operate in a different manner from traditional vaccines.[1] Traditional vaccines stimulate an antibody response by injecting antigens, an attenuated virus (weakened virus), an inactivated virus (dead virus), or a recombinant antigen-encoding viral vector (harmless carrier virus with an antigen transgene) into the body. These antigens and viruses are prepared and grown outside the body.[39][40]

In contrast, mRNA vaccines introduce a short-lived[41] synthetically created fragment of the RNA sequence of a virus into the vaccinated individual. These mRNA fragments are taken up by dendritic cells – a type of immune system cell – by phagocytosis.[42] The dendritic cells use their internal machinery (ribosomes) to read the mRNA and produce the viral antigens that the mRNA encodes.[4] The body degrades the mRNA fragments within a few days.[43] Although non-immune cells can potentially also absorb vaccine mRNA, produce antigens, and display the antigens on their surfaces, dendritic cells absorb the mRNA globules much more readily.[44]

Once the viral antigens are produced by the host cell, the normal adaptive immune system processes are followed. Antigens are broken down by proteasomes, then class I and class II MHC molecules attach to the antigen and transport it to the cellular membrane, "activating" the dendritic cell.[45] Once the dendritic cells are activated, they migrate to lymph nodes, where the antigen is presented to T cells and B cells.[46] This eventually leads to the production of antibodies that are specifically targeted to the antigen, resulting in immunity.[38]

The benefit of using mRNA to have host cells produce the antigen is that mRNA is far easier for vaccine creators to produce than antigen proteins or attenuated virus.[47][1][4] Another benefit is speed of design and production. Moderna designed their mRNA-1273 vaccine for COVID-19 in 2 days.[48] Another advantage of RNA vaccines is that since the antigens are produced inside the cell, they stimulate cellular immunity, as well as humoral immunity.[6][49]

mRNA vaccines do not affect or reprogram DNA inside the cell. The synthetic mRNA fragment is a copy of the specific part of the viral RNA that carries the instructions to build the antigen of the virus (a protein spike, in the case of the main coronavirus mRNA vaccines), and is not related to human DNA. This misconception was circulated as the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines came to public prominence, and is considered a debunked conspiracy theory.[50][51]

Delivery

Major delivery methods and carrier molecules for mRNA vaccines

For a successful vaccine, enough mRNA has to enter the host cell cytoplasm to produce the specific antigens. The entry of mRNA molecules, however, faces a number of difficulties. mRNA molecules are too big to enter the cell membrane by simple diffusion. They are also negatively charged, like the cell membrane, which causes a mutual electrostatic repulsion. Additionally, mRNA is easily degraded by RNAases which exist in the skin and blood. Different methods have been developed to overcome these mRNA delivery hurdles. The method of vaccine delivery can be broadly classified by whether the mRNA transfer to cells happens within (in vivo) or outside (ex vivo) the organism.[52][3]

Ex vivo

Dendritic cells are a type of immune cells that display antigens on their surfaces, leading to interactions with T cells to initiate an immune response. Dendritic cells can be collected from patients and programmed with the desired mRNA. Then, they can be re-administered back into patients to create an immune response.[53]

The simplest way that ex vivo dendtritc cells take up the mRNA molecules is through endocytosis. This is a fairly inefficient means of introducing mRNA into the cell in the laboratory setting and can be significantly improved by using electroporation. The ex vivo method allows mRNA to be introduced into cells with high efficiency.[52]

In vivo

Since the discovery that the direct administration of in vitro transcribed mRNA leads to the expression of antigens in the body, in vivo approaches have been investigated.[20] They offer some advantages over ex vivo methods, particularly by avoiding the cost of harvesting and adapting dendritic cells from patients, and by imitating a regular infection.[52]

Different routes of injection, such as into the skin, blood, or muscles, result in varying levels of mRNA uptake, making the choice of administration route a critical aspect of in vivo delivery. One study showed, in comparing different routes, that lymph node injection leads to the largest T-cell response.[54]

Naked mRNA injection

Naked mRNA injection means that the delivery of the vaccine is only done in a buffer solution.[55] This mode of mRNA uptake has been known since the 1990s.[20] The first worldwide clinical studies used intradermal injections of naked mRNA for vaccination.[56][57] A wide range of other injections methods have been used to deliver naked mRNA, such as subcutaneous injection, intravenous injection, and intratumoral injection. Although naked mRNA delivery causes an immune response, the effect is relatively weak, and after injection the mRNA is often rapidly degraded.[52]

Polymer and peptide vectors

Cationic polymers can be mixed with mRNA to generate protective coatings called polyplexes. These protect the recombinant mRNA from ribonucleases and assist its penetration in cells. Protamine is a natural cationic peptide and has been used to encapsulate mRNA for vaccination.[58][59]

Lipid nanoparticle vector

Assembly of RNA lipid nanoparticle

The first time the FDA approved the use of lipid nanoparticles as a drug delivery system was in 2018, when the agency approved the first siRNA drug, Onpattro.[60] Encapsulating the mRNA molecule in lipid nanoparticles was a critical breakthrough for producing viable mRNA vaccines, solving a number of key technical barriers in delivering the mRNA molecule into the host cell.[60][61] Research into using lipids to deliver siRNA to cells became a foundation for similar research into using lipids to deliver mRNA.[62] However, new lipids had to be invented to encapsulate mRNA strands, which are much longer than siRNA strands.[62]

Principally, the lipid provides a layer of protection against degradation, allowing more robust translational output. In addition, the customization of the lipid's outer layer allows the targeting of desired cell types through ligand interactions. However, many studies have also highlighted the difficulty of studying this type of delivery, demonstrating that there is an inconsistency between in vivo and in vitro applications of nanoparticles in terms of cellular intake.[63] The nanoparticles can be administered to the body and transported via multiple routes, such as intravenously or through the lymphatic system.[60]

One issue with lipid nanoparticles is that several of the breakthroughs leading to the practical use of that technology involve the use of microfluidics. Microfluidic reaction chambers are difficult to scale up, since the entire point of microfluidics is to exploit the microscale behaviors of liquids. The only way around this obstacle is to run an extensive number of microfluidic reaction chambers in parallel, a novel task requiring custom-built equipment.[64][65] For COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, this was the main manufacturing bottleneck. Pfizer used such a parallel approach to solve the scaling problem. After verifying that impingement jet mixers could not be directly scaled up,[66] Pfizer made about 100 of the little mixers (each about the size of a U.S. half-dollar coin), connected them together with pumps and filters with a "maze of piping,"[67][68] and set up a computer system to regulate flow and pressure through the mixers.[66]

Another issue, with the large-scale use of this delivery method, is the availability of the novel lipids used to create lipid nanoparticles, especially ionizable cationic lipids. Before 2020, such lipids were manufactured in small quantities measured in grams or kilograms, and they were used for medical research and a handful of drugs for rare conditions. As the safety and efficacy of RNA vaccines became clear by late 2020, the few companies able to manufacture the requisite lipids were confronted with the challenge of scaling up production to respond to orders for several tons of lipids.[65][69]

Viral vector

In addition to non-viral delivery methods, RNA viruses have been engineered to achieve similar immunological responses. Typical RNA viruses used as vectors include retroviruses, lentiviruses, alphaviruses and rhabdoviruses, each of which can differ in structure and function.[70] Clinical studies have utilized such viruses on a range of diseases in model animals such as mice, chicken and primates.[71][72][73]

Side effects and risks

Reactogenicity is similar to that of conventional, non-RNA vaccines. However, those susceptible to an autoimmune response may have an adverse reaction to RNA vaccines.[4] The mRNA strands in the vaccine may elicit an unintended immune reaction – this entails the body believing itself to be sick, and the person feeling as if they are as a result. To minimize this, mRNA sequences in mRNA vaccines are designed to mimic those produced by host cells.[5]

Strong but transient reactogenic effects were reported in trials of novel COVID-19 RNA vaccines; most people will not experience severe side effects which include fever and fatigue. Severe side effects are defined as those that prevent daily activity.[74]

General

Before 2020, no mRNA technology platform (drug or vaccine) had been authorized for use in humans, so there was a risk of unknown effects.[49] The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic required faster production capability of mRNA vaccines, made them attractive to national health organisations, and led to debate about the type of initial authorization mRNA vaccines should get (including emergency use authorization or expanded access authorization) after the eight-week period of post-final human trials.[75][76]

Storage

Because mRNA is fragile, some vaccines must be kept at very low temperatures to avoid degrading and thus giving little effective immunity to the recipient. Pfizer–BioNTech's BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine has to be kept between −80 and −60 °C (−112 and −76 °F).[77][78] Moderna says their mRNA-1273 vaccine can be stored between −25 and −15 °C (−13 and 5 °F),[79] which is comparable to a home freezer,[78] and that it remains stable between 2 and 8 °C (36 and 46 °F) for up to 30 days.[79][80] In November 2020, Nature reported, "While it's possible that differences in LNP formulations or mRNA secondary structures could account for the thermostability differences [between Moderna and BioNtech], many experts suspect both vaccine products will ultimately prove to have similar storage requirements and shelf lives under various temperature conditions."[49] Several platforms are being studied that may allow storage at higher temperatures.[4]

Advantages

Traditional vaccines

Advantages and disadvantages of different types of vaccine platforms

RNA vaccines offer specific advantages over traditional vaccines.[5][4] Because RNA vaccines are not constructed from an active pathogen (or even an inactivated pathogen), they are non-infectious. In contrast, traditional vaccines require the production of pathogens, which, if done at high volumes, could increase the risks of localized outbreaks of the virus at the production facility.[5] RNA vaccines can be produced faster, more cheaply, and in a more standardized fashion (with fewer error rates in production), which can improve responsiveness to serious outbreaks.[4][5] For example, the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine originally required 110 days to produce (before Pfizer began to optimize the manufacturing process to only 60 days), but this was still far faster than traditional flu and polio vaccines.[67] Within that larger timeframe, the actual production time is only about 22 days: two weeks for molecular cloning of DNA plasmids and purification of DNA, four days for DNA-to-RNA transcription and purification of mRNA, and four days to encapsulate mRNA in lipid nanoparticles followed by fill and finish.[81] The majority of the days needed for each production run are allocated to rigorous quality control at each stage.[67]

DNA vaccines

In addition to sharing the advantages of theoretical DNA vaccines over established traditional vaccines, RNA vaccines also have additional advantages over DNA vaccines. The mRNA is translated in the cytosol, so there is no need for the RNA to enter the cell nucleus, and the risk of being integrated into the host genome is averted.[3] Modified nucleosides (for example, pseudouridines, 2'-O-methylated nucleosides) can be incorporated to mRNA to suppress immune response stimulation to avoid immediate degradation and produce a more persistent effect through enhanced translation capacity.[82][83][84] The open reading frame (ORF) and untranslated regions (UTR) of mRNA can be optimized for different purposes (a process called sequence engineering of mRNA), for example through enriching the guanine-cytosine content or choosing specific UTRs known to increase translation.[85] An additional ORF coding for a replication mechanism can be added to amplify antigen translation and therefore immune response, decreasing the amount of starting material needed.[86][87]

Vaccine hesitancy

Further information: Social:Misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic and Unsolved:Vaccine hesitancy

There is misinformation implying that mRNA vaccines could alter DNA in the nucleus.[16] mRNA in the cytosol is very rapidly degraded before it would have time to gain entry into the cell nucleus. (mRNA vaccines must be stored at very low temperature to prevent mRNA degradation.) Retrovirus can be single-stranded RNA (just as SARS-CoV-2 vaccine is single-stranded RNA) which enters the cell nucleus and uses reverse transcriptase to make DNA from the RNA in the cell nucleus. A retrovirus has mechanisms to be imported into the nucleus, but other mRNA lack these mechanisms. Once inside the nucleus, creation of DNA from RNA cannot occur without a primer, which accompanies a retrovirus, but which would not exist for other mRNA if placed in the nucleus.[88]

Efficacy of mRNA vaccines for COVID-19

It is unclear why the novel mRNA COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer–BioNTech have shown potential efficacy rates of 90 to 95 percent when the prior mRNA drug trials on pathogens other than COVID-19 were not so promising and had to be abandoned in the early phases of trials.[89] Physician-scientist Margaret Liu stated that it could be due to the "sheer volume of resources" that went into development, or that the vaccines might be "triggering a nonspecific inflammatory response to the mRNA that could be heightening its specific immune response, given that the modified nucleoside technique reduced inflammation but hasn't eliminated it completely", and that "this may also explain the intense reactions such as aches and fevers reported in some recipients of the mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccines". These reactions though severe were transient and another view is that they were believed to be a reaction to the lipid drug delivery molecules.[89]

Unlike DNA molecules, the mRNA molecule is a very fragile molecule that degrades within minutes in an exposed environment, and thus mRNA vaccines need to be transported and stored at very low temperatures.[90] Outside the cell, or its drug delivery system, the mRNA molecule is also quickly broken down by the host.[5]

Self-amplifying RNA (saRNA) vaccines

The two main categories of mRNA vaccines are non-amplifying (conventional, viral delivery) and molecular self-amplifiying mRNA (non-viral delivery).[91][92] Self-amplifying mRNA vaccines began development in the 1990s.[93][86]

Self-amplifying RNA (saRNA) is a technology similar to mRNA, except the saRNA produces multiple copies of itself in the cell before producing proteins like mRNA does.[91][92] This allows smaller quantities to be used and has other potential advantages.[94][95]

The mechanisms and consequently the evaluation of self-amplifying mRNA may be different, as self-amplifying mRNA is fundamentally different by being a much bigger molecule in size.[3] saRNA vaccines are being researched, including development of a malaria vaccine.[96]

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Further reading

  • "mRNA-based therapeutics--developing a new class of drugs". Nat Rev Drug Discov 13 (10): 759–80. October 2014. doi:10.1038/nrd4278. PMID 25233993. 

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