GALA-Modified Lipid Nanoparticles for the Targeted Delivery of Plasmid DNA to the Lungs.
GALA-Modified Lipid Nanoparticles for the Targeted Delivery of Plasmid DNA to the Lungs.
复制标题
GALA 修饰的脂质纳米颗粒用于将质粒 DNA 靶向递送至肺部。
DOI:
10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.0c00854
复制
发表时间:
2021
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
Harashima H
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Hagino Y;Khalil IA;Kimura S;Kusumoto K;Harashima H
This study describes the development of lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) for the efficient and selective delivery of plasmid DNA (pDNA) to the lungs. The GALA peptide was used as a ligand to target the lung endothelium and as an endosomal escape device. Transfection activity in the lungs was significantly improved when pDNA was encapsulated in double-coated LNPs. The inner coat was composed of dioleoylphsophoethanolamine and a stearylated octaarginine (STR-R8) peptide, while the outer coat was largely a cationic lipid, di-octadecenyl-trimethylammonium propane, mixed with YSK05, a pH-sensitive lipid, and cholesterol. Optimized amounts of YSK05 and GALA were used to achieve an efficient and lung-selective system. The optimized system produced a high gene expression level in the lungs (>107RLU/mg protein) with high lung/liver and lung/spleen ratios. GALA/R8 modification and the double-coating design were indispensable for efficient gene expression in the lungs. Despite the fact that NPs prepared with 1-step or 2-step coating have the same lipid amount and composition and the same pDNA dose, the transfection activity was dramatically higher in the lungs in the case of 2-step coating. Surprisingly, 1-step or 2-step coatings had no effect on the amount of nanoparticles that were delivered to the lungs, suggesting that the double-coating strategy substantially improved the efficiency of gene expression at the intracellular level.