Abstract：
:Gene therapy is rapidly regaining traction in terms of research activity and investment across the globe, with clear potential to revolutionize medicine and tissue regeneration. Viral vectors remain the most commonly utilized gene delivery vehicles, due to their high efficiency, however, they are acknowledged to have numerous drawbacks, including limited payload capacity, lack of cell-type specificity, and risk of possible mutations in vivo, hence, patient safety. Synthetic nanoparticle gene delivery systems can offer substantial advantages over viral vectors. They can be utilized as off-the-shelf components to package genetic material, display targeting ligands, and release payloads upon environmental triggers and enable the possibility of programmed cell-specific uptake and transfection. In this study, we have synthesized three functional polymeric building blocks that, in a rapid, facile, tailorable, and stage-wise manner, associate through both electrostatic and noncovalent hydrophobic "host-guest" interactions to form monodisperse self-assembled nanoparticles (SaNP). We show that these SaNPs successfully package significant amounts of microRNA through to plasmid DNA, present desired ligands on their outer surface for targeted receptor-mediated cell-specific uptake and affect efficient translation of packaged plasmids. We confirm that these SaNPs outperform commercially available, gold standard transfection agents in terms of in vitro transfection efficiencies and have very low cytotoxicity. With facile self-assembly and tailorable composition, our SaNP gene delivery system has significant potential in targeted gene therapy applications.
journal_name
Biomacromoleculesjournal_title
Biomacromoleculesauthors
Wong LY,Xia B,Wolvetang E,Cooper-White Jdoi
10.1021/acs.biomac.7b01462subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2018-02-12 00:00:00pages
353-363issue
2eissn
1525-7797issn
1526-4602journal_volume
19pub_type
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