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. 2021 Oct 18;22(20):11227. doi: 10.3390/ijms222011227

Table 2.

Composition and properties of nanoparticle delivery systems for anti-HBV genetic drugs.

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]