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Fujun Wang

Qiqihar Medical University

ORCID: 0000-0002-2851-6709

Publishes on Diabetes Treatment and Management, Angiogenesis and VEGF in Cancer, MicroRNA in disease regulation. 30 papers and 363 citations.

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Membrane Fusion‐Mediated Loading of Therapeutic siRNA into Exosome for Tissue‐Specific Application
Miao Xie, Yuqing Wu, Yilun Zhang et al.|Advanced Materials|2024
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Tissue-specific delivery of oligonucleotide therapeutics beyond the liver remains a key challenge in nucleic acid drug development. To address this issue, exploiting exosomes as a novel carrier has emerged as a promising approach for efficient nucleic acid drug delivery. However, current exosome-based delivery systems still face multiple hurdles in their clinical applications. Herein, this work presents a strategy for constructing a hybrid exosome vehicle (HEV) through a DNA zipper-mediated membrane fusion approach for tissue-specific siRNA delivery. As a proof-of-concept, this work successfully fuses a liposome encapsulating anti-NFKBIZ siRNAs with corneal epithelium cell (CEC)-derived exosomes to form a HEV construct for the treatment of dry eye disease (DED). With homing characteristics inherited from exosomes, the siRNA-bearing HEV can target its parent cells and efficiently deliver the siRNA payloads to the cornea. Subsequently, the NFKBIZ gene silencing significantly reduces pro-inflammatory cytokine secretions from the ocular surface, reshapes its inflammatory microenvironment, and ultimately achieves an excellent therapeutic outcome in a DED mouse model. As a versatile platform, this hybrid exosome with targeting capability and designed therapeutic siRNAs may hold great potential in various disease treatments.