Enrichment and Delivery of Target Proteins into the Cell Cytosol via Outer Membrane Vesicles.

Huan Wang, Zhiqing Tao, Xiaoling Zhao, Guan Wang, Yun Peng, Yihao Chen, Juan Zhang, Xu Zhang, Maili Liu, Guosheng Jiang, Lichun He

ACS applied materials & interfaces 2023 Jun 28

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Advanced intracellular delivery of proteins has profound applications in both scientific investigations and therapies. However, existing strategies relying on various chemical and physical methods have drawbacks such as the requirement of high concentrations of in vitro prepared target proteins and difficulty in labeling target proteins. Developing new delivery systems integrating the enveloping and labeling of target proteins would bring great advantages for efficient protein transfections. Here, we enriched a high concentration (62 mg/mL) of several target proteins into the outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) of Escherichia coli to employ the native property of OMVs to deliver proteins into the cytosol of eukaryotic cells. The results revealed a high protein transfection efficiency from 90 to 97% for different cell lines. Moreover, the free penetration of molecules less than 600 Da across the membrane of OMVs allows direct labeling of target proteins within OMVs, facilitating the visualization of target proteins. Importantly, the nanobody delivered intracellularly by OMVs retains the biological activity of binding with its target, highlighting the advantages of OMVs as an emerging tool for efficient intracellular delivery of proteins.

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Huan Wang, Zhiqing Tao, Xiaoling Zhao, Guan Wang, Yun Peng, Yihao Chen, Juan Zhang, Xu Zhang, Maili Liu, Guosheng Jiang, Lichun He. Enrichment and Delivery of Target Proteins into the Cell Cytosol via Outer Membrane Vesicles. ACS applied materials & interfaces. 2023 Jun 28;15(25):29743-29751