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ArticlePharmaceutics2021

Microfluidic Formulation of DNA-Loaded Multicomponent Lipid Nanoparticles for Gene Delivery.

Erica Quagliarini, Serena Renzi, Luca Digiacomo, Francesca Giulimondi, Barbara Sartori, Heinz Amenitsch, Valentina Tassinari, Laura Masuelli, Roberto Bei, Lishan Cui and 5 more

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Article in Pharmaceutics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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19 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Erica QuagliariniDepartment of Chemistry, "Sapienza" University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.
Serena RenziDepartment of Molecular Medicine, "Sapienza" University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy.
Luca DigiacomoDepartment of Molecular Medicine, "Sapienza" University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3362-7160
Francesca GiulimondiDepartment of Molecular Medicine, "Sapienza" University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy.
Barbara SartoriInstitute of inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, 8010 Graz, Austria.
Heinz AmenitschInstitute of inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, 8010 Graz, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-0788-1336
Valentina TassinariDepartment of Molecular Medicine, "Sapienza" University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2167-9414
Laura MasuelliDepartment of Experimental Medicine, "Sapienza" University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.
Roberto BeiDepartment of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", 00133 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9541-8896
Lishan CuiSchool of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, 62032 Camerino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7647-1376
Junbiao WangSchool of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, 62032 Camerino, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8695-323X
Augusto AmiciSchool of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, 62032 Camerino, Italy.
Cristina MarchiniSchool of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, 62032 Camerino, Italy.
Daniela PozziDepartment of Molecular Medicine, "Sapienza" University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy.
Giulio CaraccioloDepartment of Molecular Medicine, "Sapienza" University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8636-4475

Funding

Sapienza Università di Roma RP120172A86CD62E
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years, lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) have gained considerable attention in numerous research fields ranging from gene therapy to cancer immunotherapy and DNA vaccination. While some RNA-encapsulating LNP formulations passed clinical trials, DNA-loaded LNPs have been only marginally explored so far. To fulfil this gap, herein we investigated the effect of several factors influencing the microfluidic formulation and transfection behavior of DNA-loaded LNPs such as PEGylation, total flow rate (TFR), concentration and particle density at the cell surface. We show that PEGylation and post-synthesis sample concentration facilitated formulation of homogeneous and small size LNPs with high transfection efficiency and minor, if any, cytotoxicity on human Embryonic Kidney293 (HEK-293), spontaneously immortalized human keratinocytes (HaCaT), immortalized keratinocytes (N/TERT) generated from the transduction of human primary keratinocytes, and epidermoid cervical cancer (CaSki) cell lines. On the other side, increasing TFR had a detrimental effect both on the physicochemical properties and transfection properties of LNPs. Lastly, the effect of particle concentration at the cell surface on the transfection efficiency (TE) and cell viability was largely dependent on the cell line, suggesting that its case-by-case optimization would be necessary. Overall, we demonstrate that fine tuning formulation and microfluidic parameters is a vital step for the generation of highly efficient DNA-loaded LNPs.

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lipid nanoparticleslipofectaminemicrofluidicstransfection efficiency

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PMID34452253
PMCPMC8400491

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