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Front Bioeng Biotechnol. 2019 Jun 04;7:131. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2019.00131. eCollection 2019.

At the Intersection of Biomaterials and Gene Therapy: Progress in Non-viral Delivery of Nucleic Acids.

Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology

Hasan Uludag, Anyeld Ubeda, Aysha Ansari

Affiliations

  1. Department of Chemical and Materinals Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
  3. Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.

PMID: 31214586 PMCID: PMC6558074 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2019.00131

Abstract

Biomaterials play a critical role in technologies intended to deliver therapeutic agents in clinical settings. Recent explosion of our understanding of how cells utilize nucleic acids has garnered excitement to develop a range of older (e.g., antisense oligonucleotides, plasmid DNA and transposons) and emerging (e.g., short interfering RNA, messenger RNA and non-coding RNAs) nucleic acid agents for therapy of a wide range of diseases. This review will summarize biomaterials-centered advances to undertake effective utilization of nucleic acids for therapeutic purposes. We first review various types of nucleic acids and their unique abilities to deliver a range of clinical outcomes. Using recent advances in T-cell based therapy as a case in point, we summarize various possibilities for utilizing biomaterials to make an impact in this exciting therapeutic intervention technology, with the belief that this modality will serve as a therapeutic paradigm for other types of cellular therapies in the near future. We subsequently focus on contributions of biomaterials in emerging nucleic acid technologies, specifically focusing on the design of intelligent nanoparticles, deployment of mRNA as an alternative to plasmid DNA, long-acting (integrating) expression systems, and

Keywords: T-cell therapy; biomaterials; gene medicine; mRNA; nanoparticle; nucleic acid delivery; pDNA delivery; siRNA

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