A simple polydopamine-based platform for engineering extracellular vesicles with brain-targeting peptide and imaging probes to improve stroke outcome

一种基于聚多巴胺的简单平台,用于利用脑靶向肽和成像探针设计细胞外囊泡以改善中风结果

阅读:4
作者:Xiaojing Shi, Lu Zhang, Shengju Wu, Chunfu Zhang, Muyassar Mamtilahun, Yongfang Li, Zhijun Zhang, Changjing Zuo, Fengzhen Cui, Wanlu Li, Guo-Yuan Yang, Yaohui Tang

Abstract

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have shown great potential for treating various diseases. Translating EVs-based therapy from bench to bedside remains challenging due to inefficient delivery of EVs to the injured area and lack of techniques to visualize the entire targeting process. Here we developed a dopamine surface functionalization platform that facilitates easy and simultaneous conjugation of targeting peptide and multi-mode imaging probes to the surface of EVs. Utilizing this platform we concurrently modified M2 microglia-derived EVs (M2-EVs) with neuronal targeting peptide rabies virus glycoprotein peptide 29 (RVG29) and multi-modal imaging tracers, resulting in the targeted delivery of M2-EVs to stroke mice brain and enabled the dynamic visualization of the targeting process from whole-body to cellular levels. We determined that intra-arterial injection achieved the highest efficiency of targeted delivery of engineered EVs to the stroke mice brain, improved therapeutic efficacy by reducing neuronal apoptosis. Mechanistically, EVs miRNA array revealed that a number of anti-apoptosis related miRNAs were significantly up-regulated, including miR-221-3p and miR-423-3p, both exerted anti-apoptotic effects through p38/ERK signalling pathways in stroke. Overall, this platform provides a facile and powerful tool for multifunctional engineering of EVs for multiscale therapeutic evaluation and enhancement of EV-based therapy, with valuable prospects for clinical translation.

特别声明

1、本文转载旨在传播信息,不代表本网站观点,亦不对其内容的真实性承担责任。

2、其他媒体、网站或个人若从本网站转载使用,必须保留本网站注明的“来源”,并自行承担包括版权在内的相关法律责任。

3、如作者不希望本文被转载,或需洽谈转载稿费等事宜,请及时与本网站联系。

4、此外,如需投稿,也可通过邮箱info@biocloudy.com与我们取得联系。