Multi-responsive “turn-on” nanocarriers for efficient site-specific gene delivery in vitro and in vivo
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He, YiyanZhou, Jie
Ma, Shengnan
Nie, Yu
Yue, Dong
Jiang, Qian
Wali, Aisha Roshan Mohamed
Tang, James Z
Gu, Zhongwei
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2016-09-26
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Systemic gene delivery is a complicated and multistep process that confronts numerous biological barriers. It remains a formidable challenge to exploit a single gene carrier with multiple features to combat all obstacles collectively. Herein, a multi-responsive “turn-on” polyelectrolyte complex (DNA/OEI-SSx/HA-SS-COOH, DSS) delivery system is demonstrated with a sequential self-assembly of disulfide-conjugated oligoethylenimine (OEI-SSx) and disulfide bond-modified hyaluronic acid envelope (HA-SS-COOH) that can combat multiple biological barriers collectively when administered intravenously. DSS is designed to effectively accumulate at the tumor tissue and to be internalized into tumor cells by recognizing CD44. The multi-responsive “turn-on” DSS can respond to the alterations of hyaluronidases and glutathione at both the tumor site and at the intracellular milieu. Sequential degradation and detachment of the HA-SS-COOH envelope followed by the dissociation of the OEI-SSx/DNA inner core contributes to the activation of the endosomal escape and gene release functions, thus greatly enhancing nuclear gene delivery. A systematic investigation of DSS has revealed that the tumor accumulation ability, internalization, and endosome escape of the DSS nanocarriers, DNA unpacking and nuclear transportation are all remarkably improved by the multi-responsive “turn-on” design resulting in highly efficient gene transfection in vitro and in vivo.Citation
He, Y., Zhou, J., Ma, S., Nie, Y., Yue, D., Jiang, Q., Wali, AR., Tang, JZ., Gu, Z. (2016) 'Multi-responsive “turn-on” nanocarriers for efficient site-specific gene delivery in vitro and in vivo', Advanced Healthcare Materials, 5 (21), pp.2799-2812 doi: 10.1002/adhm.201600710Publisher
WileyJournal
Advanced Healthcare MaterialsAdditional Links
http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/adhm.201600710Type
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This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Wiley in Advanced Healthcare Materials on 25/09/2016, available online: https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.201600710 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.ISSN
2192-2640ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1002/adhm.201600710
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