Method of producing antibodies

Abstract

Provided are compositions and methods for delivering biological moieties such as modified nucleic acids into cells to modulate protein expression. Such compositions and methods include the use of modified messenger RNAs, and are useful for production of proteins.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]The present application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13 / 252,049, filed Oct. 3, 2011, entitled Engineered Nucleic Acids and Methods of Use Thereof which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61 / 404,413, filed Oct. 1, 2010, the disclosure of each of which is considered part of (and is incorporated herein by reference in) the disclosure of this application.[0002]The present application is being filed along with a Sequence Listing in electronic format. The Sequence Listing is provided as a file entitled M008TR1SEQLST.tx created on May 17, 2013 which is 57,704 bytes in size. The information in electronic format of the sequence listing is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]Naturally occurring R NAs are synthesized from four basic ribonucleotides: ATP, CTP, UTP and GTP, but may contain post-transcriptionally modified nucleotides. Further, approximately one h...

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Benefits of technology

[0010]In one aspect, the disclosure features a method of increasing the production of a recombinantly expressed protein of interest in a cell, comprising the steps: (i) providing a target cell comprising a recombinant nucleic acid encoding the protein of interest; and (ii) introducing into the target cell a composition comprising a first isolated nucleic acid comprising a translatable region encoding a translation effector protein and a nucleoside modification under conditions such that the effector protein is produced in the cell, thereby increasing the production of the recombinantly expressed protein in the cell.

Problems solved by technology

There are multiple problems with prior methodologies of effecting protein expression.

Introduced DNA can integrate into host cell genomic DNA at some frequency, resulting in alterations and / or damage to the host cell genomic DNA.

Further, it is difficult to obtain DNA expression in cells; frequently DNA enters cells but is not expressed or not expressed at reasonable rates or concentrations.

This can be a particular problem when DNA is introduced into cells such as primary cells or modified cell lines.

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