Layer-by-Layer Assembled Antisense DNA Microsponge Particles for Efficient Delivery of Cancer Therapeutics
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Roh, Young Hoon; Lee, Jong Bum; Morton, Stephen Winford; Poon, Zhiyong; Hong, Jinkee; Yamin, Inbar; Bonner, Daniel K.; Shopsowitz, Kevin; Hammond, Paula T; Dreaden, Erik; ... Show more Show less
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Antisense oligonucleotides can be employed as a potential approach to effectively treat cancer. However, the inherent instability and inefficient systemic delivery methods for antisense therapeutics remain major challenges to their clinical application. Here, we present a polymerized oligonucleotides (ODNs) that self-assemble during their formation through an enzymatic elongation method (rolling circle replication) to generate a composite nucleic acid/magnesium pyrophosphate sponge-like microstructure, or DNA microsponge, yielding high molecular weight nucleic acid product. In addition, this densely packed ODN microsponge structure can be further condensed to generate polyelectrolyte complexes with a favorable size for cellular uptake by displacing magnesium pyrophosphate crystals from the microsponge structure. Additional layers are applied to generate a blood-stable and multifunctional nanoparticle via the layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly technique. By taking advantage of DNA nanotechnology and LbL assembly, functionalized DNA nanostructures were utilized to provide extremely high numbers of repeated ODN copies for efficient antisense therapy. Moreover, we show that this formulation significantly improves nucleic acid drug/carrier stability during in vivo biodistribution. These polymeric ODN systems can be designed to serve as a potent means of delivering stable and large quantities of ODN therapeutics systemically for cancer treatment to tumor cells at significantly lower toxicity than traditional synthetic vectors, thus enabling a therapeutic window suitable for clinical translation.
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2014-09Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering; Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MITJournal
ACS Nano
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American Chemical Society (ACS)
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Roh, Young Hoon, Jong Bum Lee, Kevin E. Shopsowitz, Erik C. Dreaden, Stephen W. Morton, Zhiyong Poon, Jinkee Hong, Inbar Yamin, Daniel K. Bonner, and Paula T. Hammond. “Layer-by-Layer Assembled Antisense DNA Microsponge Particles for Efficient Delivery of Cancer Therapeutics.” ACS Nano 8, no. 10 (October 28, 2014): 9767–9780. © 2014 American Chemical Society
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1936-0851
1936-086X