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NATURE BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 2, Issue 5, Pages 326-337Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41551-018-0214-1
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- National Institutes of Health [R01CA140295]
- Department of Bioengineering
- Office of Research at the University of Washington
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Hurdles in cell-specific delivery of small interfering RNA (siRNA) in vivo hinder the clinical translation of RNA interference (RNAi). A fundamental problem concerns conflicting requirements for the design of the delivery vehicles: cationic materials facilitate cargo condensation and endosomolysis, yet hinder in vivo targeting and colloidal stability. Here, we describe a self-assembled, compact (similar to 30 nm) and biocompatible ribonucleoprotein-octamer nanoparticle that achieves endosomal destabilization and targeted delivery. The protein octamer consists of a poly(ethylene glycol) scaffold, a sterically masked endosomolytic peptide and a double-stranded RNA-binding domain, providing a discrete number of siRNA loading sites and a high siRNA payload (>30 wt%), and offering flexibility in both siRNA and targeting-ligand selection. We show that a ribonucleoprotein octamer against the polo-like kinase 1 gene and bearing a ligand that binds to prostate-specific membrane antigen leads to efficient gene silencing in prostate tumour cells in vitro and when intravenously injected in mouse models of prostate cancer. The octamer's versatile nanocarrier design should offer opportunities for the clinical translation of therapies based on intracellularly acting biologics.
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