Membrane fusogenic high-density lipoprotein nanoparticles
Membrane fusogenic high-density lipoprotein nanoparticles
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DOI:
10.1016/j.bbamem.2019.06.007
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发表时间:
2019-10-01
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
Murakami, Tatsuya
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作者:
Kim, Hyungjin;Nobeyama, Tomohiro;Murakami, Tatsuya
Membrane fusion under mildly acidic pH occurs naturally during viral infection in cells and has been exploited in the field of nanoparticle-mediated drug delivery to circumvent endosomal entrapment of the cargo. Herein, we aimed to confer virus-like fusogenic activity to HDL in the form of a ca. 10-nm disc comprising a discoidal lipid bilayer and two copies of a lipid-binding protein at the edge. A series of HDL mutants were prepared with a mixture of three lipids and a cell-penetrating peptide (TAT, penetratin, or Arg8) fused to the protein. In a lipid-mixing assay with anionic liposomes at pH 5.5, one HDL mutant showed the fusogenic activity higher than known fusogenic liposomes. In live mammalian cells, this HDL mutant showed high plasma membrane-binding activity in the presence of serum independent of pH. In the absence of serum, a mildly acidic pH dependency for binding to the plasma membrane and the subsequent lipid mixing between them was observed for this mutant. We propose a novel strategy to develop HDL-based drug carriers by taking advantage of the HDL lipid/protein composite structure.