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ArticleJournal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society2019

Folate-displaying exosome mediated cytosolic delivery of siRNA avoiding endosome trapping.

Zhen Zheng, Zhefeng Li, Congcong Xu, Bin Guo, Peixuan Guo

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Article in Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 83 papers.

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83citing papers in PubMed
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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83 citing papers in PubMed, 131 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Zhen ZhengCenter for RNA Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine, Division of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, United States.
Zhefeng LiCenter for RNA Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine, Division of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, United States.
Congcong XuCenter for RNA Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine, Division of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, United States.
Bin GuoDepartment of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, United States.
Peixuan GuoCenter for RNA Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine, Division of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, United States; College of Medicine, Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute and James Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, United States. Electronic address: guo.1091@osu.edu.
The Ohio State University · USThe Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute · USUniversity of Houston · US

Funding

The Ohio State University and MD Anderson Cancer Center Thyroid Cancer SPOREP50CA168505 · NCI · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI KIRSCHNER, LAWRENCE S · 2013 to 2017
$10.9M
Optimizing RNA nanoparticles size and shape for enhancing cancer targeting and treatmentU01CA207946 · NCI · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI CARSON, WILLIAM E., GUO, PEIXUAN · 2016 to 2020
$2.7M
RNA Nanotechnology in Cancer TherapyU01CA151648 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI GUO, PEIXUAN, LI, HENRY · 2010 to 2014
$2.1M
RNA Therapeutics for Targeted Treatment of Colon CancerR01CA186100 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON · PI GUO, BIN · 2015 to 2018
$1.4M
Cancer specific and organ-avoiding RNA architectures for quantitative imagingR01EB019036 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI EVERS, BERNARD MARK, GUO, PEIXUAN · 2014 to 2017
$1.3M
Systemic delivery of miR-29 for basal-like breast cancer treatmentR21CA209045 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI SHU, DAN, XU, REN · 2016 to 2017
$375k
NCI NIH HHS P50 CA168505NCI NIH HHS R01 CA186100NCI NIH HHS R21 CA209045NCI NIH HHS U01 CA151648NCI NIH HHS U01 CA207946NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB019036
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Folate (FA) receptor is a cell surface glycoprotein overexpressed on many cancer cells. It is a high affinity ligand for cancer cell targeting. However, delivery of siRNA directly through folate receptor mediated endocytosis for gene silencing has not, if any, been successful in clinical trial. We have reported the application of RNA nanotechnology to construct FA-displaying exosomes for efficient cell targeting, siRNA delivery and cancer regression (Pi et.al Nature Nanotechnology, 2018:13, 82-89; Li et al., Scientific Report, 2018:8, 14,644). However, the mechanism underlying the efficient therapeutic behavior through folate/exosome complex remains elusive. Here we demonstrate that the efficient cancer suppression with the FA-displaying exosome was due to the receptor-mediated cytosol delivery of the siRNA payload without endosome trapping, as attested by fluorescence colocalization analysis, gene knockdown assay and animal tumor regression. It is expected that the high potency of FA-displaying exosome in cytosolic siRNA delivery will renew the concept and interest in using FA as cancer targeting ligand in human cancer therapy.

Indexed as

ExosomesAnimalsCell Line, TumorCytosolEndosomesFemaleFolic AcidGene Transfer TechniquesHumansMice, NudeNeoplasmsRNA, Small InterferingFolic AcidRNA, Small InterferingCancer cell targetingCancer therapyCytosol deliveryExosome displayingFolate targetingsiRNA delivery

Identifiers

PMID31446085
PMCPMC6874920
OpenAlexW2969339289

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