Table 2.
Nanopreparation | Nanocarrier Composition |
Ligand | Drugs | Method of Preparation |
Particle Size (nm) | Encapsulation Efficiency (%) | Drug Loading (%) |
Refs. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ribozyme technology | ||||||||
Polymeric micelle | Chitosan oligosaccharide-grafted stearic acid | N/A | 10–23 DNAzyme specific to e-gene ORF A1816UG | Self-aggregation | 164.0 ± 2.1 | N/A | N/A | [47] |
Chitosan oligosaccharide-SS-Octadecylamine | N/A | 10–23 DNAzyme specific to e-gene ORF A1816UG | Self-aggregation | 214.75 ± 3.43 | 96.48 ± 0.27 | 1.582 ± 0.004 | [48] | |
10–23 DNAzyme specific to s-gene ORF A157UG | 230.70 ± 6.16 | 96.45 ± 0.33 | 1.581 ± 0.005 | |||||
RNA interference technology | ||||||||
Lipid nanoparticle | Cationic cholesteryl polyamine N1-cholesteryloxycarbonyl-3,7-diazanonane-1,9-diamine and the neutral colipid dioleoyl-l,r-phosphatidyl ethanolamine | Polyethylene glycol | siRNA | Film dispersion– sonication method |
80–100 | N/A | N/A | [49] |
Proprietary lipid nanoparticle platform (Arbutus Biopharma) | N/A | ARB-1740 | Spontaneous vesicle formation | 65–80 | 92–98 | N/A | [50,51] | |
ARB-1467 | N/A | N/A | N/A | [52] | ||||
Polymeric nanoparticle | Poly(d,l-lactide-co-glycolide)-grafted chitosan (PLGA–CHS) | N/A | Plasmid DNA (pDNA) | Spontaneous emulsion diffusion method | 59.43 ± 14 | N/A | Nearly 100% at the ratio of 100:1 (PLGA–CHS NS to pDNA) | [53] |
ARC-EX1 containing hepatocyte-targeted N-acetylgalactosamine-conjugated melittin-like peptide | N/A | ARC-520 along with a related ARC-521 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | [54,55] | |
Conjugate nanoparticle | N-acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc)–siRNA conjugates | N/A | ALN-HBV | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | [56,57,58] |
Gene editing technology | ||||||||
Lipid-like nanoparticle | Tris(2-aminoethyl) benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamide | N/A | CRISPR/Cas9 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | [59] |
Lipid nanoparticle | Cationic lipid, phospholipid, cholesterol | Polyethylene glycol | CRISPR/Cas ribonucleoprotein | Mixer-equipped microfluidic device | <200 | >80 | N/A | [60] |