Extracellular vesicles from dHL-60 cells as delivery vehicles for diverse therapeutics

Jun Kyu Kim, Young Jin Youn, Yu Bin Lee, Sun Hwa Kim, Dong Keun Song, Minsang Shin, Hee Kyung Jin, Jae sung Bae, Sanjeeb Shrestha, Chang Won Hong

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Abstract

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are membrane-derived heterogeneous vesicles that mediate intercellular communications. They have recently been considered as ideal vehicles for drug-delivery systems, and immune cells are suggested as a potential source for drug-loaded EVs. In this study, we investigated the possibility of neutrophils as a source for drug-loaded EVs. Neutrophil-like differentiated human promyelocytic leukemia cells (dHL-60) produced massive amounts of EVs within 1 h. The dHL-60 cells are also easily loaded with various cargoes such as antibiotics (penicillin), anticancer drug (paclitaxel), chemoattractant (MCP-1), miRNA, and Cas9. The EVs derived from the dHL-60 cells showed efficient incorporation of these cargoes and significant effector functions, such as bactericidal activity, monocyte chemotaxis, and macrophage polarization. Our results suggest that neutrophils or neutrophil-like promyelocytic cells could be an attractive source for drug-delivery EVs.

Original languageEnglish
Article number8289
JournalScientific Reports
Volume11
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2021

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