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ArticleACS nano2025

Engineered Extracellular Vesicles Modified by Angiopep-2 Peptide Promote Targeted Repair of Spinal Cord Injury and Brain Inflammation.

Guang Kong, Jie Liu, Juan Wang, Xiaohu Yu, Cong Li, Mingyang Deng, Minhao Liu, Siming Wang, Chunming Tang, Wu Xiong and 1 more

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Article in ACS nano, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors.

Guang KongDepartment of Orthopedics, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710000 Shaanxi, China.
Jie LiuDepartment of Orthopedics, The Affiliated Taizhou People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Taizhou School of Clinical Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, 366 Taihu Road, Taizhou 225300 Jiangsu, China.
Juan WangDepartment of Human Anatomy, School of Basic Medicine, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210000 Jiangsu, China.
Xiaohu YuDepartment of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, 300 Guangzhou Road, Nanjing 210000 Jiangsu, China.
Cong LiDepartment of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, 300 Guangzhou Road, Nanjing 210000 Jiangsu, China.
Mingyang DengDepartment of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, 300 Guangzhou Road, Nanjing 210000 Jiangsu, China.
Minhao LiuDepartment of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, 300 Guangzhou Road, Nanjing 210000 Jiangsu, China.
Siming WangDepartment of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, 300 Guangzhou Road, Nanjing 210000 Jiangsu, China.
Chunming TangDepartment of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Nanjing Medical University, 300 Guangzhou Road, Nanjing 210000 Jiangsu, China.
Wu XiongDepartment of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, 300 Guangzhou Road, Nanjing 210000 Jiangsu, China.
Jin FanDepartment of Orthopedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, 300 Guangzhou Road, Nanjing 210000 Jiangsu, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8293-2028

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Engineered extracellular vesicles play an increasingly important role in the treatment of spinal cord injury. In order to prepare more effective engineered extracellular vesicles, we biologically modified M2 microglia. Angiopep-2 (Ang2) is an oligopeptide that can target the blood-brain barrier. Through single-cell sequencing and immunofluorescence experiments, we confirmed that the expression of LRP-1, the targeted receptor of Ang2, was elevated after spinal cord injury. Subsequently, we integrated the Ang2 peptide segment into M2 microglia to obtain Ang2-EVs, which could successfully target the site of spinal cord injury. However, in order to improve the function of Ang2-EVs, we pretreated M2 microglia with melatonin, which has anti-inflammatory effects, to obtain M-Ang2-EVs. The results of single-nucleus sequencing of the mouse spinal cord verified that neurons and OPCs gradually transformed into subtypes related to nerve repair functions after treatment with M-Ang2-EVs. This is consistent with the sequencing and enrichment analysis of miRNAs contained in M-Ang2-EVs. We further verified through experiments that M-Ang2-EVs can promote microglia/macrophages to phagocytose sphingomyelin, promote axon remyelination and axon elongation, and maintain the integrity of the blood-spinal barrier. Since Ang2 can also target the blood-brain barrier, we found that M-Ang2-EVs can also reduce brain inflammation that results from spinal cord injury. Our study applied the Angiopep-2 peptide to spinal cord injury to enhance the targeting of injured cells, and successfully construct engineered extracellular vesicles that can target the spinal cord injury site and the brain.

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Extracellular VesiclesPeptidesSpinal Cord InjuriesAnimalsBlood-Brain BarrierMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMicrogliaAngiopep-2Peptidesangiopep-2axonal regenerationcerebral inflammationengineered extracellular vesiclesmelatoninspinal cord injury

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PMID39853366
PMCPMC11803916

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