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ArticleNano letters2026

Balancing Multivalent Avidity and Receptor Availability Governs mRNA Delivery by Antibody-Functionalized Lipid Nanoparticles.

Kazuki Hashiba, Masahiro Fukasaka, Chisa Okuma, Yasuyo Kobayashi-Ooka, Keiko Kajiwara, Akinori Sugiyama, Tomonari Mizuno, Yoshimitsu Shimomura, Yoshiki Maeda, Jumpei Sasaki and 7 more

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Article in Nano letters, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors.

Kazuki HashibaNucleic Acid Medicine Business Division, Nitto Denko Corporation, 1-1-2 Shimohozumi, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-8680, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-1434-0773
Masahiro FukasakaNucleic Acid Medicine Business Division, Nitto Denko Corporation, 1-1-2 Shimohozumi, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-8680, Japan.
Chisa OkumaNucleic Acid Medicine Business Division, Nitto Denko Corporation, 1-1-2 Shimohozumi, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-8680, Japan.ORCID 0009-0006-6342-8778
Yasuyo Kobayashi-OokaNucleic Acid Medicine Business Division, Nitto Denko Corporation, 1-1-2 Shimohozumi, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-8680, Japan.
Keiko KajiwaraNucleic Acid Medicine Business Division, Nitto Denko Corporation, 1-1-2 Shimohozumi, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-8680, Japan.
Akinori SugiyamaNucleic Acid Medicine Business Division, Nitto Denko Corporation, 1-1-2 Shimohozumi, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-8680, Japan.
Tomonari MizunoNucleic Acid Medicine Business Division, Nitto Denko Corporation, 1-1-2 Shimohozumi, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-8680, Japan.ORCID 0009-0000-5661-6750
Yoshimitsu ShimomuraNucleic Acid Medicine Business Division, Nitto Denko Corporation, 1-1-2 Shimohozumi, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-8680, Japan.
Yoshiki MaedaNucleic Acid Medicine Business Division, Nitto Denko Corporation, 1-1-2 Shimohozumi, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-8680, Japan.
Jumpei SasakiNucleic Acid Medicine Business Division, Nitto Denko Corporation, 1-1-2 Shimohozumi, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-8680, Japan.
Taisuke EnokiNucleic Acid Medicine Business Division, Nitto Denko Corporation, 1-1-2 Shimohozumi, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-8680, Japan.
Ryo HashinoNucleic Acid Medicine Business Division, Nitto Denko Corporation, 1-1-2 Shimohozumi, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-8680, Japan.
Shintaro MikuniNucleic Acid Medicine Business Division, Nitto Denko Corporation, 1-1-2 Shimohozumi, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-8680, Japan.
Hiroki NishitaNucleic Acid Medicine Business Division, Nitto Denko Corporation, 1-1-2 Shimohozumi, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-8680, Japan.
Naoko UrushiharaNucleic Acid Medicine Business Division, Nitto Denko Corporation, 1-1-2 Shimohozumi, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-8680, Japan.
Hirofumi EbeNucleic Acid Medicine Business Division, Nitto Denko Corporation, 1-1-2 Shimohozumi, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-8680, Japan.
Hiroshi YamadaNucleic Acid Medicine Business Division, Nitto Denko Corporation, 1-1-2 Shimohozumi, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-8680, Japan.ORCID 0009-0006-8462-5201

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Expanding the therapeutic scope of mRNA requires delivery systems with precise cell selectivity. Antibody-functionalized lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) enable programmable targeting, but quantitative rules linking surface avidity to delivery remain unresolved. Here, we establish a single-domain antibody (VHH)-LNP platform with controlled orientation and tunable ligand density, combined with an antigen-specific ligand binding fluorescence assay using single-particle nanoflow cytometry to quantify only functional ligands. Using this system, we show that CD8-targeted LNPs exhibit a bell-shaped dependence of delivery efficiency on ligand density, revealing an optimal avidity of ∼0.1 VHH per 100 nm

Indexed as

LipidsNanoparticlesRNA, MessengerSingle-Domain AntibodiesAnimalsAntibody AffinityHumansLiposomesMiceLipid NanoparticlesLipidsLiposomesRNA, MessengerSingle-Domain AntibodiesantibodyCAR-Tionizable lipidslipid nanoparticlesmRNA delivery

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PMID41834375
PMCPMC13088362

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