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- Title
Charge Booster Tags for Controlled Release of Therapeutics from a Therapeutic Carrier.
- Authors
Kim, Seoungkyun; Kim, Dong Hee; Cho, Jinhwan; Kim, Jaeyun; Kwon, Inchan
- Abstract
Injectable hydrogels are promising delivery vehicles for the sustained release of therapeutic proteins. Electrostatic interactions between proteins and hydrogels often increase affinity to decelerate protein release. However, this approach is not suitable for weakly charged proteins. The current study shows that the genetic fusion of a highly charged protein segment (charge booster tag) with proteins can control their interactions with injectable gels. A positive or negative charge booster tag is introduced into urate oxidase (UOX), a therapeutic protein for gout, to generate UOX variants with varying net charges. When a positively‐charged injectable hydrogel is used, both the in vitro release rate and in vivo serum half‐life of UOX are correlated with the net negative charge. This modified delivery approach results in a serum half‐life of over 106 h for the UOX variant, which is substantially longer than that of free UOX (3.3 h). Hence, charge booster tags can be used as a systematic strategy for controlling the release of therapeutic proteins.
- Subjects
BOOSTER vaccines; ELECTROSTATIC interaction; THERAPEUTICS; PROTEIN-protein interactions
- Publication
Advanced Functional Materials, 2023, Vol 33, Issue 11, p1
- ISSN
1616-301X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/adfm.202209874