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用于肝癌治疗的核酸药物递送体系研究进展

刘婉婉a#, 李丹a#, 邓可欣a, 刘君禹a, 张吉松c, 张灿阳a,b,d,e*   

  1. a清华大学 深圳国际研究生院 广东深圳 518055;
    b工业生物催化教育部重点实验室(清华大学)北京 100084;
    c清华大学化学工程系 北京 100084;
    d活性蛋白多肽绿色生物制造广东普通高校重点实验室(清华大学深圳国际研究生院);
    e深圳湾实验室 广东深圳 518067
  • 作者简介:刘婉婉,就读于清华大学深圳国际研究生院,2021级材料与化工专业硕士。主要研究方向为核酸药物递送体系开发与肿瘤治疗。李丹,就读于清华大学深圳国际研究生院,2022级材料与化工专业硕士。主要研究方向为有机-无机杂合生物载体材料制备及肿瘤治疗。邓可欣,就读于清华大学深圳国际研究生院,2021级材料与化工专业硕士。主要研究方向为治疗性肿瘤疫苗的开发与评价。刘君禹,就读于清华大学深圳国际研究生院,化学工程与技术专业博士。主要研究方向为口服递送系统设计、天然产物体内外功效及机制研究、生物信息学分析等。张吉松,2014年博士毕业于清华大学化学工程专业,现任清华大学化学工程系副教授。目前从事流动化学和微填充床气液固反应研究,主要包括:1)基于微填充床技术的加氢和氧化反应;2)医药中间体的连续高效合成;3)基于微器件的在线表征和分析技术。张灿阳,2014年博士毕业于华南理工大学化学工程专业,现任清华大学深圳国际研究生院副教授、博士生导师。研究方向面向生物医药与生命健康领域重大需求与关键问题,聚焦生命物质与非生物元件互作与适配及规模化制备研究,基于靶向递送技术,理性设计和开发工程化的活性物质生物杂合体系,实现功能调控与性能超越,优化多种重大疾病的治疗,如癌症、感染、自身免疫性疾病。
  • 基金资助:
    广东省珠江人才计划(项目编号:2021QN02Y225),清华大学深圳国际研究生院海外科研合作基金(项目编号:HW2023009)和化工系-iBHE专项合作联合基金资助

Advances in Nucleic Acid Drug Delivery Systems for Liver Cancer Treatment

LIU Wanwana#, LI Dana#, DENG Kexina, LIU Junyua, ZHANG Jisongc, ZHANG Can Yanga,b,d,e*   

  1. aShenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, Guangdong, China;
    bKey Laboratory of Industrial Biocatalysis, Ministry of Education; Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;
    cDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;
    dKey Laboratory of Active Proteins and Peptides Green Biomanufacturing of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes,Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School;
    eShenzhen Bay Laboratory, Shenzhen 518055, Guangdong, China
  • Contact: * E-mail: zhang.cy@sz.tsinghua.edu.cn; xhxing@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn.
  • About author:#Liu W and Li D contributed equally to this work.
  • Supported by:
    Pearl River Talent Project (Grant No. 2021QN02Y225), Overseas Research Cooperation Fund of Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University (Grant No. HW2023009) and Department of Chemical Engineering-iBHE Cooperation Joint Fund Project.

Liver cancer has become a major threat to human health due to its high lethality, poor prognosis and strong drug resistance. With the in-depth researches on liver cancer and the development of nucleic acid biotechnology, nucleic acid drugs have gradually shown great potential in liver cancer treatment. Compared with traditional therapeutic drugs like chemical drugs, nucleic acid drugs have the characteristics of strong specificity, rich potential targets, relatively short development cycle, and negligible toxic side effects, etc. However, due to the poor stability of nucleic acid molecules, it is difficult to achieve long circulation time in body, high internalization activity, and lysosomal escape capacity in cell, which leads to the low transfection efficiency and prevents it from exerting the therapeutic effect. Therefore, it’s of great importance to develop drug delivery systems for nucleic acid drugs to improve the therapeutic effect and enhance the stability as well as the targeting of nucleic acid drugs in vivo. Currently, the delivery vectors for nucleic acid drugs include viral vectors and non-viral vectors. Viral vectors, including adenovirus, lentivirus, etc., have the advantages of high transfection efficiency and high specificity, but their application prospect is greatly restricted due to the safety and ethical issues. Non-viral vectors are safer, more stable and structurally tunable compared with viral vectors. Non-viral vectors, including covalently attached systems, inorganic nanoparticles, lipid nanoparticles (LNP), polymer nanoparticles (PNP), DNA nanoparticles etc., have high application prospects due to their rich types, diverse and adjustable structures, and good biocompatibility. In this paper, we systematically summarize the current nucleic acid drug delivery systems, especially for liver cancer, and carefully classify the application scenarios and characteristics of the current delivery systems and introduce all the delivery systems as exhaustively as possible. It provides reference for the research and development of innovative nucleic acid drug delivery systems tailored for liver cancer. Collectively, we think that drug delivery systems for nucleic acid drugs could be potential in clinic to promote the improvement of liver cancer therapy.

Key words: liver cancer, gene delivery, nucleic acid drugs, gene therapy, non-viral vectors