scholarly journals Biomimetic Nanoparticles Coated with Bacterial Outer Membrane Vesicles as a New-Generation Platform for Biomedical Applications

Pharmaceutics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 1887
Author(s):  
Atanu Naskar ◽  
Hyejin Cho ◽  
Sohee Lee ◽  
Kwang-sun Kim

The biomedical field is currently reaping the benefits of research on biomimetic nanoparticles (NPs), which are synthetic nanoparticles fabricated with natural cellular materials for nature-inspired biomedical applications. These camouflage NPs are capable of retaining not only the physiochemical properties of synthetic nanoparticles but also the original biological functions of the cellular materials. Accordingly, NPs coated with cell-derived membrane components have achieved remarkable growth as prospective biomedical materials. Particularly, bacterial outer membrane vesicle (OMV), which is a cell membrane coating material for NPs, is regarded as an important molecule that can be employed in several biomedical applications, including immune response activation, cancer therapeutics, and treatment for bacterial infections with photothermal activity. The currently available cell membrane-coated NPs are summarized in this review. Furthermore, the general features of bacterial OMVs and several multifunctional NPs that could serve as inner core materials in the coating strategy are presented, and several methods that can be used to prepare OMV-coated NPs (OMV-NPs) and their characterization are highlighted. Finally, some perspectives of OMV-NPs in various biomedical applications for future potential breakthrough are discussed. This in-depth review, which includes potential challenges, will encourage researchers to fabricate innovative and improvised, new-generation biomimetic materials through future biomedical applications.

2020 ◽  
Vol 323 ◽  
pp. 253-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Li ◽  
Han Zhou ◽  
Chen Yang ◽  
Yi Wu ◽  
Xuechang Zhou ◽  
...  

ChemCatChem ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 4080-4086
Author(s):  
Ji‐Won Song ◽  
Yoonjin Baeg ◽  
Ha‐Yeon Jeong ◽  
Jinwon Lee ◽  
Deok‐Kun Oh ◽  
...  

Toxins ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Nice ◽  
Nataliya Balashova ◽  
Scott Kachlany ◽  
Evan Koufos ◽  
Eric Krueger ◽  
...  

The Gram-negative bacterium, Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, has been associated with localized aggressive periodontitis (LAP). In particular, highly leukotoxic strains of A. actinomycetemcomitans have been more closely associated with this disease, suggesting that LtxA is a key virulence factor for A. actinomycetemcomitans. LtxA is secreted across both the inner and outer membranes via the Type I secretion system, but has also been found to be enriched within outer membrane vesicles (OMVs), derived from the bacterial outer membrane. We have characterized the association of LtxA with OMVs produced by the highly leukotoxic strain, JP2, and investigated the interaction of these OMVs with host cells to understand how LtxA is delivered to host cells in this OMV-associated form. Our results demonstrated that a significant fraction of the secreted LtxA exists in an OMV-associated form. Furthermore, we have discovered that in this OMV-associated form, the toxin is trafficked to host cells by a cholesterol- and receptor-independent mechanism in contrast to the mechanism by which free LtxA is delivered. Because OMV-associated toxin is trafficked to host cells in an entirely different manner than free toxin, this study highlights the importance of studying both free and OMV-associated forms of LtxA to understand A. actinomycetemcomitans virulence.


2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (43) ◽  
pp. 21780-21788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmela Irene ◽  
Laura Fantappiè ◽  
Elena Caproni ◽  
Francesca Zerbini ◽  
Andrea Anesi ◽  
...  

Bacterial outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) represent an interesting vaccine platform for their built-in adjuvanticity and simplicity of production process. Moreover, OMVs can be decorated with foreign antigens using different synthetic biology approaches. However, the optimal OMV engineering strategy, which should guarantee the OMV compartmentalization of most heterologous antigens in quantities high enough to elicit protective immune responses, remains to be validated. In this work we exploited the lipoprotein transport pathway to engineer OMVs with foreign proteins. Using 5 Staphylococcus aureus protective antigens expressed in Escherichia coli as fusions to a lipoprotein leader sequence, we demonstrated that all 5 antigens accumulated in the vesicular compartment at a concentration ranging from 5 to 20% of total OMV proteins, suggesting that antigen lipidation could be a universal approach for OMV manipulation. Engineered OMVs elicited high, saturating antigen-specific antibody titers when administered to mice in quantities as low as 0.2 μg/dose. Moreover, the expression of lipidated antigens in E. coli BL21(DE3)ΔompAΔmsbBΔpagP was shown to affect the lipopolysaccharide structure, with the result that the TLR4 agonist activity of OMVs was markedly reduced. These results, together with the potent protective activity of engineered OMVs observed in mice challenged with S. aureus Newman strain, makes the 5-combo-OMVs a promising vaccine candidate to be tested in clinics.


2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyler Pugeda ◽  
Milena Dinu ◽  
Lea Michel ◽  
Timothy Chapman ◽  
Michael Pichichero

Vaccine ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 29 (46) ◽  
pp. 8293-8301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Ho Lee ◽  
Sang-Hyun Kim ◽  
Wonseok Kang ◽  
Yoon Seok Choi ◽  
Sang-Ho Lee ◽  
...  

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