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Multifunctional receptor-targeted nanocomplexes for the delivery of therapeutic nucleic acids to the brain

Kenny, GD; Bienemann, AS; Tagalakis, AD; Pugh, JA; Welser, K; Campbell, F; Tabor, AB; ... Hart, SL; + view all (2013) Multifunctional receptor-targeted nanocomplexes for the delivery of therapeutic nucleic acids to the brain. Biomaterials , 34 (36) pp. 9190-9200. 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2013.07.081. Green open access

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Abstract

Convection enhanced delivery (CED) is a method of direct injection to the brain that can achieve widespread dispersal of therapeutics, including gene therapies, from a single dose. Non-viral, nanocomplexes are of interest as vectors for gene therapy in the brain, but it is essential that administration should achieve maximal dispersal to minimise the number of injections required. We hypothesised that anionic nanocomplexes administered by CED should disperse more widely in rat brains than cationics of similar size, which bind electrostatically to cell-surface anionic moieties such as proteoglycans, limiting their spread. Anionic, receptor-targeted nanocomplexes (RTN) containing a neurotensin-targeting peptide were prepared with plasmid DNA and compared with cationic RTNs for dispersal and transfection efficiency. Both RTNs were labelled with gadolinium for localisation in the brain by MRI and in brain sections by LA-ICP-MS, as well as with rhodamine fluorophore for detection by fluorescence microscopy. MRI distribution studies confirmed that the anionic RTNs dispersed more widely than cationic RTNs, particularly in the corpus callosum. Gene expression levels from anionic formulations were similar to those of cationic RTNs. Thus, anionic RTN formulations can achieve both widespread dispersal and effective gene expression in brains after administration of a single dose by CED.

Type: Article
Title: Multifunctional receptor-targeted nanocomplexes for the delivery of therapeutic nucleic acids to the brain
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2013.07.081
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2013.07.0...
Language: English
Additional information: 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords: Convection enhanced delivery (CED), Gene therapy, Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), Nanoparticles, Peptide
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Genetics and Genomic Medicine Dept
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Chemistry
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1403934
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