Nature Communications (Jul 2016)

Exosome engineering for efficient intracellular delivery of soluble proteins using optically reversible protein–protein interaction module

  • Nambin Yim,
  • Seung-Wook Ryu,
  • Kyungsun Choi,
  • Kwang Ryeol Lee,
  • Seunghee Lee,
  • Hojun Choi,
  • Jeongjin Kim,
  • Mohammed R. Shaker,
  • Woong Sun,
  • Ji-Ho Park,
  • Daesoo Kim,
  • Won Do Heo,
  • Chulhee Choi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12277
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Exosomes have been identified as promising vehicles for the in vivodelivery of therapeutic molecules. Here the authors design a system to load protein cargos into exosomes during their biogenesis using optogenetic control of protein-protein interactions between the cargo and an exosome-localized partner.