Nondestructive production of exosomes loaded with ultrathin palladium nanosheets for targeted bio-orthogonal catalysis
- 27 November 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Protocols
- Vol. 16 (1), 131-163
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41596-020-00406-z
Abstract
The use of exosomes as selective delivery vehicles of therapeutic agents, such as drugs or hyperthermia-capable nanoparticles, is being intensely investigated on account of their preferential tropism toward their parental cells. However, the methods used to introduce a therapeutic load inside exosomes often involve disruption of their membrane, which may jeopardize their targeting capabilities, attributed to their surface integrins. On the other hand, in recent years bio-orthogonal catalysis has emerged as a new tool with a myriad of potential applications in medicine. These bio-orthogonal processes, often based on Pd-catalyzed chemistry, would benefit from systems capable of delivering the catalyst to target cells. It is therefore highly attractive to combine the targeting capabilities of exosomes and the bio-orthogonal potential of Pd nanoparticles to create new therapeutic vectors. In this protocol, we provide detailed information on an efficient procedure to achieve a high load of catalytically active Pd nanosheets inside exosomes, without disrupting their membranes. The protocol involves a multistage process in which exosomes are first harvested, subjected to impregnation with a Pd salt precursor followed by a mild reduction process using gas-phase CO, which acts as both a reducing and growth-directing agent to produce the desired nanosheets. The technology is scalable, and the protocol can be conducted by any researcher having basic biology and chemistry skills in ~3 d.This publication has 49 references indexed in Scilit:
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