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Extracellular vesicles provide a capsid-free vector for oncolytic adenoviral DNA delivery
2020
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have been showcased as auspicious candidates for delivering therapeutic cargo, including oncolytic viruses for cancer treatment. Delivery of oncolytic viruses in EVs could provide considerable advantages, hiding the viruses from the immune system and providing alternative entry pathways into cancer cells. Here we describe the formation and viral cargo of EVs secreted by cancer cells infected with an oncolytic adenovirus (IEVs, infected cell-derived EVs) as a function of time after infection. IEVs were secreted already before the lytic release of virions and their structure resembled normally secreted EVs, suggesting that they were not just apoptotic fragments of…
Synthesis and characterization of polyaspartamide copolymers obtained by ATRP for nucleic acid delivery
2014
Abstract Nucleic acid molecules such as small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) and plasmidic DNAs (pDNAs) have been shown to have the potential to be of therapeutic value in different human diseases. Their practical use is however compromised by the lack of appropriate release systems. Delivered as naked molecules, siRNAs/pDNAs are rapidly degraded by extracellular nucleases thus considerably reducing the amount of molecule which can reach the target cells. Additionally, the anionic charge of the phosphate groups present on the siRNAs/pDNAs backbone, disfavors the interaction with the negatively charged surface of the cell membrane. In this paper we describe the generation of a novel polymer able …