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Biodegradable Nanocarriers Resembling Extracellular Vesicles Deliver Genetic Material with the Highest Efficiency to Various Cell Types

  • Yana Tarakanchikova
  • , Jamal Alzubi
  • , Valentina Pennucci
  • , Marie Follo
  • , Boris Kochergin
  • , Albert Muslimov
  • , Ilya Skovorodkin
  • , Seppo Vainio
  • , Maria N. Antipina
  • , Vsevolod Atkin
  • , Alexey Popov
  • , Igor Meglinski
  • , Toni Cathomen
  • , Tatjana I. Cornu
  • , Dmitry A. Gorin
  • , Gleb B. Sukhorukov
  • , Irina Nazarenko
  • RASA center in St. PetersburgPeter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University St. Petersburg 195251 Russia
  • Center for Chronic ImmunodeficiencyMedical Center–University of FreiburgFaculty of MedicineUniversity of Freiburg 79106 Freiburg Germany
  • Department of Medicine IMedical Center–University of FreiburgFaculty of MedicineUniversity of Freiburg Freiburg 153000 Germany
  • Department of Inorganic ChemistryIvanovo State University of Chemistry and Technology Sheremetievskiy Avenue 7 153000 Ivanovo Russia
  • Nanobiotechnology LaboratorySt. Petersburg Academic University St. Petersburg 194021 Russia
  • Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular MedicineBiocenter OuluLaboratory of Developmental BiologyInfotech OuluUniversity of Oulu Borealis Biobank of Northern Finland 138634 Oulu Finland
  • Institute of Materials Research and EngineeringA*STAR Singapore 138634 Singapore
  • Educational Research Institute of Nanostructures and BiosystemsSaratov State University Saratov, Astrakhanskaya 83 410012 Saratov Russia
  • Opto‐Electronics and Measurement Techniques Research UnitP.O. Box 4500University of Oulu Oulu 90014 Finland
  • Skoltech center of Photonics & Quantum MaterialsSkolkovo Institute of Science and TechnologySkolkovo Innovation Center Building 3 Moscow 143026 Russia
  • School of Engineering and Material ScienceQueen Mary University of London London B47ET UK
  • German Cancer Consortium (DKTK)Partner Site Freiburg and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg B47ET Germany

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Abstract

Efficient delivery of genetic material to primary cells remains challenging. Here, efficient transfer of genetic material is presented using synthetic biodegradable nanocarriers, resembling extracellular vesicles in their biomechanical properties. This is based on two main technological achievements: generation of soft biodegradable polyelectrolyte capsules in nanosize and efficient application of the nanocapsules for co‐transfer of different RNAs to tumor cell lines and primary cells, including hematopoietic progenitor cells and primary T cells. Near to 100% efficiency is reached using only 2.5 × 10−4 pmol of siRNA, and 1 × 10−3 nmol of mRNA per cell, which is several magnitude orders below the amounts reported for any of methods published so far. The data show that biodegradable nanocapsules represent a universal and highly efficient biomimetic platform for the transfer of genetic material with the utmost potential to revolutionize gene transfer technology in vitro and in vivo.
Original languageEnglish
Article number1904880
Journalsmall
Volume16
Issue number3
Early online date16 Dec 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Jan 2020

Bibliographical note

© 2019 The Authors. Published by WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Keywords

  • biomimetics
  • drug delivery
  • extracellular vesicles
  • gene delivery
  • microcapsules
  • nanocapsules

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