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ArticleNature communications2024

Enhancing extracellular vesicle cargo loading and functional delivery by engineering protein-lipid interactions.

Justin A Peruzzi, Taylor F Gunnels, Hailey I Edelstein, Peilong Lu, David Baker, Joshua N Leonard, Neha P Kamat

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

50 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Endogenous Engineering Reprograms Extracellular Vesicles for Enhanced Therapeutic Function.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  10. Laurdan: Clarifying Photophysics and Advancing the Characterization of Extracellular Vesicles.Chemphyschem : a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry · 2026
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  12. Multiphysics-Driven Assembly of Biomimetic Vesicles.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Justin A Peruzzi *Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3782-1382
Taylor F Gunnels *Center for Synthetic Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2498-2630
Hailey I EdelsteinDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8077-5492
Peilong LuKey Laboratory of Structural Biology of Zhejiang Province, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5894-9268
David BakerDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7896-6217
Joshua N LeonardDepartment of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA. j-leonard@northwestern.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-4359-6126
Neha P KamatCenter for Synthetic Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA. nkamat@northwestern.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-9362-6106

Funding

Tumor Environment and Metastasis (TEAM) Research ProgramP30CA060553 · NCI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI LEONIDAS C. PLATANIAS · 1993 to 2026
$153.9M
Acquisition of Amersham Typhoon 5 Variable-mode ImagerS10OD026963 · OD · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI GRIGORESCU, ARABELA A · 2019 to 2019
$143k
National Science Foundation (NSF) 1844219National Science Foundation (NSF) 2308691National Science Foundation (NSF) DGE-1842165National Science Foundation (NSF) ECCS-1542205NCI NIH HHS P30 CA060553NIH HHS S10 OD026963Northwestern University (NU) McCormick Research Catalyst ProgramU.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) 1S10OD026963-01U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (NCI) NCI CA060553
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Naturally generated lipid nanoparticles termed extracellular vesicles (EVs) hold significant promise as engineerable therapeutic delivery vehicles. However, active loading of protein cargo into EVs in a manner that is useful for delivery remains a challenge. Here, we demonstrate that by rationally designing proteins to traffic to the plasma membrane and associate with lipid rafts, we can enhance loading of protein cargo into EVs for a set of structurally diverse transmembrane and peripheral membrane proteins. We then demonstrate the capacity of select lipid tags to mediate increased EV loading and functional delivery of an engineered transcription factor to modulate gene expression in target cells. We envision that this technology could be leveraged to develop new EV-based therapeutics that deliver a wide array of macromolecular cargo.

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Extracellular VesiclesNanoparticlesAnimalsCell MembraneDrug Delivery SystemsHEK293 CellsHumansLipidsLiposomesMembrane MicrodomainsMembrane ProteinsProtein EngineeringProtein TransportLipid NanoparticlesLipidsLiposomesMembrane Proteins

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PMID38965227
PMCPMC11224323

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