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ArticleNature biomedical engineering2020

Nanoparticle-encapsulated siRNAs for gene silencing in the haematopoietic stem-cell niche.

Marvin Krohn-Grimberghe, Michael J Mitchell, Maximilian J Schloss, Omar F Khan, Gabriel Courties, Pedro P G Guimaraes, David Rohde, Sebastian Cremer, Piotr S Kowalski, Yuan Sun and 15 more

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Article in Nature biomedical engineering, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 63 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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63citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

63 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 119 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

25 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Marvin Krohn-Grimberghe *Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Michael J Mitchell *Department of Chemical Engineering, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3628-2244
Maximilian J Schloss *Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Omar F KhanDepartment of Chemical Engineering, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3811-2369
Gabriel CourtiesCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Pedro P G GuimaraesDepartment of Chemical Engineering, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
David RohdeCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Sebastian CremerCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Piotr S KowalskiDepartment of Chemical Engineering, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8607-0189
Yuan SunCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Mingchee TanDepartment of Chemical Engineering, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Jamie WebsterDepartment of Chemical Engineering, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Karin WangMolecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7812-2583
Yoshiko IwamotoCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Stephen P SchmidtCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Gregory R WojtkiewiczCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3148-8411
Ribhu NayarCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Vanessa FrodermannCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5566-6692
Maarten HulsmansCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1009-658X
Amanda ChungMolecular and Integrative Physiological Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Friedrich Felix HoyerCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Filip K SwirskiCenter for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3163-9152
Robert LangerDepartment of Chemical Engineering, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4255-0492
Daniel G Anderson *Department of Chemical Engineering, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. dgander@mit.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5629-4798
Matthias Nahrendorf *Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. mnahrendorf@mgh.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4021-1887
Harvard University · USAllen Institute · US

Funding

VIRUS PRODUCTION COREP30CA014051 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI MATTHEW G. VANDER HEIDEN · 1985 to 2026
$93.9M
PROJECT 4: Somatic evolution of the hematopoietic system in cardiovascular diseaseP01HL142494 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI David T Scadden · 2019 to 2026
$19.5M
Imaging organ system interfaces in ischemic heart diseaseR35HL139598 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI NAHRENDORF, MATTHIAS · 2018 to 2024
$6.9M
Cardiac MR and CT ResearchT32HL076136 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI NEILAN, TOMAS G · 2004 to 2019
$4.9M
Controlled Release of MacromoleculesR37EB000244 · NIBIB · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LANGER, ROBERT SAMUEL · 2008 to 2017
$3.9M
Quantitative nanoparticle imaging of macrophagesR01HL131495 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI NAHRENDORF, MATTHIAS, WEISSLEDER, MD, PHD, RALPH · 2017 to 2020
$2.7M
Interfering with the macrophage life cycle of atherosclerosisR01HL125428 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI ANDERSON, DANIEL G, NAHRENDORF, MATTHIAS · 2017 to 2020
$1.9M
Polymeric Nanoparticles for siRNA Delivery to Bone Marrow Endothelium to Disrupt Tumor Cell Adhesion and Bone Metastasis Formation In VivoF32CA200351 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI MITCHELL, MICHAEL J · 2015 to 2017
$164k
NCI NIH HHS F32 CA200351NCI NIH HHS P30 CA014051NHLBI NIH HHS HHSN268201000045CNHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL142494NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL125428NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL131495NHLBI NIH HHS R35 HL139598NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL076136NIBIB NIH HHS R37 EB000244
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bone-marrow endothelial cells in the haematopoietic stem-cell niche form a network of blood vessels that regulates blood-cell traffic as well as the maintenance and function of haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Here, we report the design and in vivo performance of systemically injected lipid-polymer nanoparticles encapsulating small interfering RNA (siRNA), for the silencing of genes in bone-marrow endothelial cells. In mice, nanoparticles encapsulating siRNA sequences targeting the proteins stromal-derived factor 1 (Sdf1) or monocyte chemotactic protein 1 (Mcp1) enhanced (when silencing Sdf1) or inhibited (when silencing Mcp1) the release of stem and progenitor cells and of leukocytes from the bone marrow. In a mouse model of myocardial infarction, nanoparticle-mediated inhibition of cell release from the haematopoietic niche via Mcp1 silencing reduced leukocytes in the diseased heart, improved healing after infarction and attenuated heart failure. Nanoparticle-mediated RNA interference in the haematopoietic niche could be used to investigate haematopoietic processes for therapeutic applications in cancer, infection and cardiovascular disease.

Indexed as

AnimalsBone Marrow CellsCells, CulturedDisease Models, AnimalDrug Delivery SystemsEndothelial CellsGene SilencingHematopoietic Stem CellsMice, Inbred C57BLMyocardial InfarctionNanoparticlesRNA, Small InterferingStem Cell NicheRNA, Small Interfering

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PMID33020600
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