A Biomimetic Drug Delivery System by Integrating Grapefruit Extracellular Vesicles and Doxorubicin-Loaded Heparin-Based Nanoparticles for Glioma Therapy

作者：Niu, Wenbo; Xiao, Qian; Wang, Xuejiao; Zhu, Junqiao; Li, Jinheng; Liang, Xiaomei; Peng, Yingming; Wu, Chentian; Lu, Ruojing; Pan, Yao; Luo, Jiamao; Zhong, Xinxian; He, Haoqi; Rong, Zhili; Fan, Jun-Bing^*; Wang, Ying^*

来源：Nano Letters, 2021, 21(3): 1484-1492.

DOI：10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04753

• biomimetic delivery system
• grapefruit extracellular vesicles
• nanoparticles
• glioma therapy

Existing nanoparticle-mediated drug delivery systems for glioma systemic chemotherapy remain a great challenge due to poor delivery efficiency resulting from the blood brain barrier/blood-(brain tumor) barrier (BBB/BBTB) and insufficient tumor penetration. Here, we demonstrate a distinct design by patching doxorubicin-loaded heparin-based nanoparticles (DNs) onto the surface of natural grapefruit extracellular vesicles (EVs), to fabricate biomimetic EV-DNs, achieving efficient drug delivery and thus significantly enhancing antiglioma efficacy. The patching strategy allows the unprecedented 4-fold drug loading capacity compared to traditional encapsulation for EVs. The biomimetic EV-DNs are enabled to bypass BBB/BBTB and penetrate into glioma tissues by receptor-mediated transcytosis and membrane fusion, greatly promoting cellular internalization and antiproliferation ability as well as extending circulation time. We demonstrate that a high-abundance accumulation of EV-DNs can be detected at glioma tissues, enabling the maximal brain tumor uptake of EV-DNs and great antiglioma efficacy in vivo.

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  y; 南方医科大学