Dendron-functionalised hyperbranched bis-MPA polyesters as efficient non-viral vectors for gene therapy in different cell lines

San Anselmo, Maria ; Postigo, Alejandro ; Lancelot, Alexandre ; Serrano, Jose Luis (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Sierra, Teresa ; Hernandez-Ainsa, Silvia (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: Gene therapy has become a relevant tool in the biomedical field to treat or even prevent some diseases. The effective delivery of genetic material into the cell remains a crucial step to succeed in this purpose. In the search for efficient non-viral vectors, a series of amino-terminated dendronized hyperbranched polymers (DHPs) of different generations based either on bis-MPA or bis-GMPA have been designed. All of them have demonstrated an accurate ability to complex two types of genetic materials, a plasmid DNA and a siGFP, yielding dendriplexes. Moreover, some of them have proved to be able to deliver the genetic material inside the cells, resulting in the effective accomplishment of the desired genetic modification and improving the activity of some commercial transfection reagents. Different cell lines, including cancer and mesenchymal stem cells, have been studied here to evaluate the ability of DHPs as vectors for transfection. Treatments based on mesenchymal stem cells are gaining importance due to their pluripotency. Thus, it is of special relevance to introduce a genetic modification into a mesenchymal cell line as it allows it to act over a wide spectrum of tissues after inducing cellular differentiation.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1039/d2bm00365a

Año: 2022

Publicado en: Biomaterials Science 10 (2022), 2706-2719
ISSN: 2047-4830

Factor impacto JCR: 6.6 (2022)

Categ. JCR: MATERIALS SCIENCE, BIOMATERIALS rank: 12 / 45 = 0.267 (2022) - Q2 - T1

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 10.9 - Materials Science (Q1) - Engineering (Q1)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 1.171 - Materials Science (miscellaneous) (Q1) - Biomedical Engineering (Q1)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA-FSE/E47-20R
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MCIU/BES-2016-078774
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MCIU/PGC2018-097583-B-I00

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Química Orgánica (Dpto. Química Orgánica)