Journal
JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART A
Volume 107, Issue 5, Pages 978-990Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.36614
Keywords
cationic polymer; messenger RNA; nonviral gene delivery; plasmid DNA; polyplex micelle
Funding
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT) [25000006, 18K03529, 17K20086]
- Center of Innovation Program (COI) from MEXT
- Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) [JP17fk0310111, JP18ae0201009]
- Mochida Memorial Foundation for Medical and Pharmaceutical Research
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [17K20086] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Nonviral delivery of plasmid (p)DNA or messenger (m)RNA is a safe and promising therapeutic option to continuously supply therapeutic proteins into diseased tissues. In most cases of in vivo pDNA and mRNA delivery, these nucleic acids are loaded into carriers based on cationic polymers and/or lipids to prevent nuclease-mediated degradation before reaching target cells. The carriers should also evade host clearance mechanisms, including uptake by scavenger cells and filtration in the spleen. Installation of ligands onto the carriers can facilitate their rapid uptake into target cells. Meanwhile, carrier toxicity should be minimized not only for preventing undesirable adverse responses in patients, but also for preserving the function of transfected cells to exert therapeutic effects. Long-term progressive improvement of platform technologies has helped overcome most of these issues, though some still remain hindering the widespread clinical application of nonviral pDNA and mRNA delivery. This review discusses design concepts of nonviral carriers for in vivo delivery and the issues to be overcome, focusing especially on our own efforts using polyplex micelles. (c) 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res Part A: 107A: 978-990, 2019.
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