Reversing the surface charge of MSC-derived small extracellular vesicles by epsilonPL-PEG-DSPE for enhanced osteoarthritis treatment

Authors
K Feng, X Xie, J Yuan et al


Lab
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth PeopleÕs Hospital, Shanghai, China.

Journal
Journal of Extracellular Vesicles

Abstract
Mesenchymal stem cell-derived small extracellular vesicles (MSC-sEVs) possess a great therapeutical potential for osteoarthritis (OA) treatment. However, the steric and electrostatic hindrance of cartilage matrix leads to very limited distribution of MSC-sEVs in cartilage and low bioavailability of MSC-sEVs after intra-articular injection. To overcome this, a strategy to reverse the surface charge of MSC-sEVs by modifying the MSC-sEVs with a novel cationic amphiphilic macromolecule namely _-polylysine-polyethylene-distearyl phosphatidylethanolamine (PPD) was developed in this study. Through incubation with 100 _g/ml PPD, positively charged MSC-sEVs (PPD-sEVs) were obtained, and the modification process showed nearly no distur bance to the integrity and contents of sEVs and exhibited good stability under the interference of anionic macromolecules. A more effective cellular uptake and home ostasis modulation ability of PPD-sEVs than unmodified MSC-sEVs to chondro cytes was demonstrated. More importantly, PPD-sEVs demonstrated significantly enhanced cartilage uptake, cartilage penetration, and joint retention capacity as compared to MSC-sEVs. Intra-articular injection of PPD-sEVs into a mouse OA model showed significantly improved bioavailability than MSC-sEVs, which resulted in enhanced therapeutic efficacy with reduced injection frequency. In general, this study provides a facile and effective strategy to improve the intra-articular bioavailability of MSC-sEVs and has a great potential to accelerate the clinical practice of MSC-sEVs based OA therapy

BIOSEB Instruments Used:
Electronic Von Frey 4 (BIO-EVF4),Electronic Von Frey 5 with embedded camera (BIO-EVF5)

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