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ArticleJournal of cardiovascular development and disease2021

Engineering Cardiac Small Extracellular Vesicle-Derived Vehicles with Thin-Film Hydration for Customized microRNA Loading.

Sruti Bheri, Brandon P Kassouf, Hyun-Ji Park, Jessica R Hoffman, Michael E Davis

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Article in Journal of cardiovascular development and disease, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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5 authors.

Sruti BheriWallace. H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
Brandon P KassoufWallace. H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
Hyun-Ji ParkWallace. H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
Jessica R HoffmanWallace. H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
Michael E DavisWallace. H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.

Funding

Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute (ACTSI) RenewalUL1TR000454 · NCATS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI STEPHENS, DAVID S · 2012 to 2016
$25.8M
Predictive and systems modeling of exosome cargoR01HL145644 · NHLBI · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI DAVIS, MICHAEL E · 2019 to 2022
$3.1M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000454NHLBI NIH HHS HL145644
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cell therapies for myocardial infarction, including cardiac ckit+ progenitor cell (CPC) therapies, have been promising, with clinical trials underway. Recently, paracrine signaling, specifically through small extracellular vesicle (sEV) release, was implicated in cell-based cardiac repair. sEVs carry cardioprotective cargo, including microRNA (miRNA), within a complex membrane and improve cardiac outcomes similar to that of their parent cells. However, miRNA loading efficiency is low, and sEV yield and cargo composition vary with parent cell conditions, minimizing sEV potency. Synthetic mimics allow for cargo-loading control but consist of much simpler membranes, often suffering from high immunogenicity and poor stability. Here, we aim to combine the benefits of sEVs and synthetic mimics to develop sEV-like vesicles (ELVs) with customized cargo loading. We developed a modified thin-film hydration (TFH) mechanism to engineer ELVs from CPC-derived sEVs with pro-angiogenic miR-126 encapsulated. Characterization shows miR-126+ ELVs are similar in size and structure to sEVs. Upon administration to cardiac endothelial cells (CECs), ELV uptake is similar to sEVs too. Further, when functionally validated with a CEC tube formation assay, ELVs significantly improve tube formation parameters compared to sEVs. This study shows TFH-ELVs synthesized from sEVs allow for select miRNA loading and can improve in vitro cardiac outcomes.

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cardiac ckit+ progenitor cellcardiac repairexosomeextracellular vesiclemicroRNA-126thin-film hydrationvesicle engineering

Identifiers

PMID34821688
PMCPMC8626043

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