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Tracking Mouse Bone Marrow Monocytes In Vivo
Published on: February 27, 2015
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骨髄 に RNA を 送る ナノ 粒子は,イン バイボ ダイレクテッド エボリューション に よっ て 特定 さ れ た
Cory D Sago1, Melissa P Lokugamage1, Fatima Z Islam1
1Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering , Georgia Institute of Technology , Atlanta , Georgia 30332 , United States.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|November 6, 2018
まとめ
研究者はナノ粒子配送を in vivo で追跡するための新しいバーコードシステムを開発した. これは,骨髄内皮細胞 (BMEC) に遺伝子編集ツールを効率的に提供する脂質ナノ粒子 (LNP) であるBM1の発見につながった.
科学分野:
- 生物医学工学
- ナノテクノロジー
- 遺伝子療法
背景:
- 骨髄内皮細胞 (BMEC) は,造血幹細胞の微小環境の重要な調節体である.
- BMECは遺伝子編集とsiRNA治療の重要なターゲットですが,効率的な全身輸送は依然として課題です.
- 既存のin vitroナノ粒子のスクリーンは,特定のBMECトロピズムを持つ候補者を特定していない.
研究 の 目的:
- 機能性 siRNA の BMEC への配送を in vivo で定量化するためのシステムを開発する.
- siRNAとsgRNAをBMECに提供できる新しいナノ粒子を特定する.
- ナノ粒子化学組成とBMECターゲティングの関係を理解する.
主な方法:
- 単一のマウスの100以上のナノ粒子から機能的な細胞塩基シRNAの配送を定量化するためのユニークなバーコードシステムを開発した.
- バイオインフォマティクスを利用し,生体内での進化を誘導し,BMECを標的とするナノ粒子を特定した.
- 脂質ナノ粒子 (LNP) サイズ,ポリエチレングリコール構造,コレステロール含有量を含む,特定されたナノ粒子の化学組成を分析した.
主要な成果:
- 新しい脂質ナノ粒子 (LNP) のBM1を特定し,siRNAとsgRNAをin vivoでBMECに効率的に送ったことを実証した.
- BMECのトロピズムはLNPのサイズとは無関係であるが,ポリエチレングリコール構造とコレステロールによって著しく影響されていることが判明した.
- LNPに対する単純な化学的改変が,活発なターゲティングリガンドなしに,重要な血管ターゲティング能力を授与することを実証した.
結論:
- 開発された in vivo 機能性スクリーニングシステムは,BMEC に効率的な siRNA と sgRNA を送達できる最初のナノ粒子である BM1 を成功裏に特定しました.
- この研究は,ナノ粒子における複雑な構造-トロピズム関係を明らかにするための in vivo スクリーニングの可能性を強調しています.
- ナノ粒子の単純な化学改変は, in vivoでの標的の配送を達成するための実行可能な戦略を提供します.
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