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- Title
Theranostic Layer‐by‐Layer Nanoparticles for Simultaneous Tumor Detection and Gene Silencing.
- Authors
Boehnke, Natalie; Correa, Santiago; Hao, Liangliang; Wang, Wade; Straehla, Joelle P.; Bhatia, Sangeeta N.; Hammond, Paula T.
- Abstract
Layer‐by‐layer nanoparticles (NPs) are modular drug delivery vehicles that incorporate multiple functional materials through sequential deposition of polyelectrolytes onto charged nanoparticle cores. Herein, we combined the multicomponent features and tumor targeting capabilities of layer‐by‐layer assembly with functional biosensing peptides to create a new class of nanotheranostics. These NPs encapsulate a high weight percentage of siRNA while also carrying a synthetic biosensing peptide on the surface that is cleaved into a urinary reporter upon exposure to specific proteases overexpressed in the tumor microenvironment. Importantly, this biosensor reports back on a molecular signature characteristic to metastatic tumors and associated with poor prognosis, MMP9 protease overexpression. This nanotheranostic mediates noninvasive urinary‐based diagnostics in mouse models of three different cancers with simultaneous gene silencing in flank and metastatic mouse models of ovarian cancer.
- Subjects
GENE silencing; DRUG carriers; CANCER genes; NANOPARTICLES; TUMOR microenvironment
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie, 2020, Vol 132, Issue 7, p2798
- ISSN
0044-8249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ange.201911762