Efficient in Vitro siRNA Delivery and Intramuscular Gene Silencing Using PEG-Modified PAMAM Dendrimers
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- 作者：Yin Tang ; Yang-Bing Li ; Bo Wang ; Ri-Yuan Lin ; Mallory van Dongen ; Danielle M. Zurcher ; Xiao-Yan Gu ; Mark M. Banaszak Holl ; George Liu ; Rong Qi
- 刊名：Molecular Pharmaceutics
- 出版年：2012
- 出版时间：June 4, 2012
- 年：2012
- 卷：9
- 期：6
- 页码：1812-1821
- 全文大小：539K
- 年卷期：v.9,no.6(June 4, 2012)
- ISSN：1543-8392
文摘
Although siRNA techniques have been broadly applied as a tool for gene knockdown, substantial challenges remain in achieving efficient delivery and in vivo efficacy. In particular, the low efficiency of target gene silencing in vivo is a critical limiting step to the clinical application of siRNA therapies. Poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) dendrimers are widely used as carriers for drug and gene delivery; however, in vivo siRNA delivery by PAMAM dendrimers remains to be carefully investigated. In this study, the effectiveness of G5 and G6 PAMAM dendrimers with 8% of their surface amines conjugated to MPEG-5000 was studied for siRNA delivery in vitro and for intramuscular in vivo delivery in mice. The results from the PEG-modified dendrimers were compared to the results from the parent dendrimers as well as Lipofectamine 2000 and INTERFERin. Both PEG-modifed dendrimers protect the siRNA from being digested by RNase and gave high transfection efficiency for FITC-labeled siRNA in the primary vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) and mouse peritoneal macrophages. The PEG-modified dendrimers achieved knockdown of both plasmid (293A cells) and adenovirus-mediated green fluorescence protein (GFP) expression (Cos7 cells) in vitro with efficiency similar to that shown for Lipofectamine 2000. We further demonstrated in vivo that intramuscular delivery of GFP-siRNA using PEG-modified dendrimer significantly suppressed GFP expression in both transiently adenovirus infected C57BL/6 mice and GFP transgenic mice.