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8.4 Application of Riboswitches in Gene Therapy 215
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control the expression of genes in patients using synthetic riboswitches. Self-cleaving ribozymes are a common expression platform employed by researchers when engi­neering a riboswitch intended for human applications [112, 125–130]. These ribozymes function naturally as cis-acting RNAs that improve the rate constant of RNA strand scission by internal phosphoester transfer (often by 6 orders of magni­tude or greater) [131–139]. Self-cleaving ribozymes can be fused with aptamers to generate allosteric ribozymes in which self-cleaving activity is conditional on the presence or absence of the target ligand [122–124, 140].
Allostery can occur in two distinct ways: (i) an inactive ribozyme is turned on by the presence of the target ligand or (ii) an active ribozyme is inhibited by the presence of the target ligand. The latter model is well suited for gene therapy appli­cations and could be used to control gene expression by inserting such a switch in the 3′UTR of an mRNA [141]. When the drug is absent, the ribozyme rapidly cleaves o the 3′poly-A tail from the precursor mRNA. The cleaved precursor mRNA is degraded by the exosome [142, 143], keeping background gene expression levels very low.When the drug is administered, the ribozyme is disabled, and gene expression is turned on. These features were showcased in a recent report describing the regula­tion of a rapid self-cleaving ribozyme with antisense morpholino oligonucleotides [112]. One drawback of this approach is that it would require injections of mor­pholino oligonucleotides. The ability to externally control the switch with an oral inducer that is less invasive would be a preferred treatment option.
Curiously, allosteric self-cleaving ribozymes have not been found to control gene expression in nature [144]. Though it could simply be the case that these examples are yet to be discovered, it merits exploring other possible expression platforms that more directly interface with mammalian gene regulatory machinery. For example, a recent report describes an engineered riboswitch that uses the initial or “P1” stem of a guanine aptamer to hide or reveal a polyadenylation sequence [145]. This approach is attractive because of the simplicity of the design. However, a second engineered riboswitch that incorporated a self-cleaving ribozyme was required in tandem to suciently improve the dynamic range. Similarly, researchers have developed riboswitches that control alternative splicing by hiding or revealing a 5′splice site within the P1 stem of a tetracycline aptamer [113, 146]. Another report describes an engineered riboswitch that regulates an internal ribosome entry site (IRES) in response to theophylline [147]. One drawback of this approach is that the IRES itself is quite large and would consume valuable vector space. Additionally, it is unlikely to be a generalizable approach to engineering riboswitches without much trial-and-error experimentation during the design process.
In another example, researchers used tetracycline to hide or reveal a microRNA (miRNA) binding site [148]. A disadvantage noted by the authors is that this approach might disrupt the natural miRNA system within the cell and pro­duce unwanted o-target eects. Recently, an aptamer that binds a tetracycline repressor (TetR) protein was exploited to regulate alternative splicing [149]. This involves expressing a foreign protein, which could present issues with both immunogenicity and vector space limitations. Another example involved a theophylline aptamer that regulated a -1 ribosomal frameshifting element [150].
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This approach produces nonsense protein products which could also pose issues with immunogenicity.
8.4.3 Barriers and Future Developments
Many proof-of-principle studies have been published using ribozyme-based expres­sion platforms, among other mechanisms for gene control. There are various aspects to consider when selecting an expression platform, including the length of the construct (including aptamer and expression platform) in nucleotides, the relative ease with which allostery is expected to be achieved with an aptamer domain (design diculty), whether the design is reasonably expected to modular, expected o-target eects from the nature of the expression platform itself, and the expected dynamic range. We have evaluated these features for several eukaryotic expression platforms (Figure 8.7). Some devices, such as allosteric ribozymes, could be implemented with various placements within an mRNA, whereas others must be positioned precisely to exhibit gene control.
We considered expression platforms that can simply be contained within the P1 stem of an aptamer (such as hiding or revealing a polyadenylation signal, miRNA-binding site, or Kozak sequence) as favorable. Constructs that involve another relatively small domain (such as a self-cleaving ribozyme or a short intron sequence) were considered intermediate and those that involved a large domain (IRES, frameshifting element) were considered unfavorable.
For design diculty, some constructs are relatively straightforward to design (those that involve hiding or revealing a sequence via ligand-mediated formation
Key
Favorable Unfavorable
Size (nucleotides)
Design difficulty
Modular
Off-target effects
Dynamic range
Regulate polyadenylation
Allosteric ribozyme – 3ctail
Regulate alternative splicing
Allosteric ribozyme – intron
Regulate access to miRNA-binding site
Allosteric ribozyme – 5c cap
IRES-based regulation
Regulate ribosomal frameshifting
Regulate access to Kozak sequence
Figure 8.7 Evaluation of mammalian expression platforms that could be applied to regulate gene expression in eukaryotes.
Natural examples
Proof-of-principle
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of a P1 stem). Development of constructs considered intermediate in this category might involve screening many constructs, but numerous literature precedents exist to guide researchers (e.g. allosteric ribozymes). Constructs considered unfavorably might require substantial trial and error to develop (e.g. regulating a large domain such as an IRES or frameshifting element). Devices inserted in the 5′UTR (e.g. for regulating access to a Kozak sequence) are likely to be incredibly challenging to implement as ON switches. This is likely true because highly structured RNAs such as aptamers that occur between the 5′cap and start codon have been shown to reduce translation of the associated ORF [151], thereby potentially reducing overall gene expression even when the riboswitch would be in the ON state.
Some engineered RNA switches are expected to be (or have been reported to be) modular in architecture, wherein the aptamer domain can be swapped out for another with dierent ligand specicity and the device still functions reasonably well. This characteristic is desirable because it reduces the time required to develop a device that responds to a dierent compound and still maintains robust switch function. Lastly, we considered the expected or reported ranges for potential ON-switch devices that could be (or have been) developed. For devices such as allosteric ribozymes, which are expected to have extremely low expression in the OFF state, a large dynamic range may not be required as even low gene expression levels might be sucient to provide the therapeutic eect.
A common theme among reported examples is that the compounds used to control the riboswitch are often repeated from the same group of classic aptamers (guanine, tetracycline, and theophylline). There is a pressing need for aptamers that respond to drug-like compounds like those described earlier (see Section 8.4.1).
8.5 Concluding Remarks
Numerous bacterial discoveries have led to fundamental molecular biology tools, such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) [152], restriction enzyme technology [153], and novel therapeutic technologies (e.g. clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats [CRISPR] [154]). Since the rst experimentally validated bacterial riboswitch was reported just over 20 years ago [33], riboswitch-based technologies have seen substantial progress in preclinical drug development. Despite this, many exciting challenges remain. Known bacterial riboswitches present a valuable and still largely untapped collection of targets for the devel­opment of new antibacterial agents. Furthermore, the discovery and validation of new riboswitch classes is a driving force for identifying new biological targets for antibiotic development. In addition to presenting novel riboswitch classes themselves, new proteins have been discovered by pathways that are elucidated by riboswitch discovery – such as guanidine hydrolases [155, 156]. The prospect of discovering hypothesized riboswitches that naturally occur in humans would present tantalizing opportunities for drug development researchers, especially with the increase in interest in RNA drug development resulting from the advent of
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mRNA vaccines [157]. Meanwhile, synthetic biologists seek to advance riboswitch technology ever closer to human gene therapy applications.
Acknowledgment
We thank members of the Breaker laboratory for helpful comments and discus­sions. RNA research in the Breaker laboratory is supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and grants from the NIH. M.G.M. is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Awardee of the Life Sciences Research Foundation.
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