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Tissue specific targeting of DNA nanodevices in a multicellular living organism

  1. Kasturi Chakraborty
  2. Palapuravan Anees
  3. Sunaina Surana
  4. Simona Martin
  5. Jihad Aburas
  6. Sandrine Moutel
  7. Franck Perez
  8. Sandhya P Koushika
  9. Paschalis Kratsios  Is a corresponding author
  10. Yamuna Krishnan  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of Chicago, United States
  2. University College London, United Kingdom
  3. Institut Curie, France
  4. TATA Institute of Fundamental Research, India
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.67830
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  1. Kasturi Chakraborty
  2. Palapuravan Anees
  3. Sunaina Surana
  4. Simona Martin
  5. Jihad Aburas
  6. Sandrine Moutel
  7. Franck Perez
  8. Sandhya P Koushika
  9. Paschalis Kratsios
  10. Yamuna Krishnan
(2021)
Tissue specific targeting of DNA nanodevices in a multicellular living organism
eLife 10:e67830.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.67830
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Abstract

Nucleic acid nanodevices present great potential as agents for logic-based therapeutic intervention as well as in basic biology. Often, however, the disease targets that need corrective action are localized in specific organs and thus realizing the full potential of DNA nanodevices also requires ways to target them to specific cell-types in vivo. Here we show that by exploiting either endogenous or synthetic receptor-ligand interactions and by leveraging the biological barriers presented by the organism, we can target extraneously introduced DNA nanodevices to specific cell types in C. elegans, with sub-cellular precision. The amenability of DNA nanostructures to tissue-specific targeting in vivo significantly expands their utility in biomedical applications and discovery biology.

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  1. Kasturi Chakraborty

    Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, United States
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  2. Palapuravan Anees

    Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, United States
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  3. Sunaina Surana

    Department of Neuromuscular Diseases, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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  4. Simona Martin

    Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, United States
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  5. Jihad Aburas

    Neurobiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, United States
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  6. Sandrine Moutel

    Institut Curie, Paris, France
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  7. Franck Perez

    Institut Curie, Paris, France
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  8. Sandhya P Koushika

    Biological Sciences, TATA Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
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  9. Paschalis Kratsios

    Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, United States
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    pkratsios@uchicago.edu
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  10. Yamuna Krishnan

    Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, United States
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    yamuna@uchicago.edu
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    Yamuna Krishnan, Reviewing editor, eLife.
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Funding

Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA9550-19-0003)

  • Yamuna Krishnan

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (1R01NS112139-01A1)

  • Yamuna Krishnan

Ono Pharma Foundation

  • Yamuna Krishnan

Whitehall Foundation

  • Paschalis Kratsios

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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  1. Kang Shen, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, United States

Publication history

  1. Received: February 24, 2021
  2. Preprint posted: March 6, 2021 (view preprint)
  3. Accepted: July 26, 2021
  4. Accepted Manuscript published: July 28, 2021 (version 1)
  5. Version of Record published: August 12, 2021 (version 2)

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© 2021, Chakraborty et al.

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  1. Kasturi Chakraborty
  2. Palapuravan Anees
  3. Sunaina Surana
  4. Simona Martin
  5. Jihad Aburas
  6. Sandrine Moutel
  7. Franck Perez
  8. Sandhya P Koushika
  9. Paschalis Kratsios
  10. Yamuna Krishnan
(2021)
Tissue specific targeting of DNA nanodevices in a multicellular living organism
eLife 10:e67830.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.67830

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