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Biohybrid Nanoparticles: History
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Contributor: Huanli Gao

Biohybrid nanoparticles are nanoscale composite materials in which an engineered, nonliving nanoparticle component—such as a polymeric, lipidic, inorganic, or organic–inorganic core—is deliberately integrated with a biologically derived constituent to form a single functional nanostructure. The biological component may consist of whole-cell membranes, membrane fragments, extracellular vesicles, proteins, peptides, nucleic acids, or other biomacromolecular assemblies; it is associated with the synthetic component through coating, adsorption, covalent conjugation, self-assembly, or membrane fusion [1][2][3]. In nanoparticle-based drug-delivery and biomaterials contexts, the defining feature is the intentional combination of the physicochemical properties of an artificial nanoscale scaffold with the molecular composition or interfacial identity of a biological material [1][2]. Biohybrid nanoparticles are therefore distinct from purely synthetic nanoparticles that acquire an incidental biomolecular corona after exposure to biological fluids, and from wholly biological nanovesicles lacking an engineered nanoparticle constituent [2][3]. Cell membrane-coated nanoparticles constitute a prominent subclass, characterized by a synthetic core enclosed within a membrane-derived shell that retains aspects of the source membrane’s lipid and protein composition [1][3].

  • biohybrid nanomaterials
  • biomimetic nanoparticles
  • cell membrane coating
  • nanocarriers

References

  1. Che-Ming J. Hu; Li Zhang; Santosh Aryal; Connie Cheung; Ronnie H. Fang; Liangfang Zhang; Erythrocyte membrane-camouflaged polymeric nanoparticles as a biomimetic delivery platform. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2011, 108, 10980-10985, 10.1073/pnas.1106634108.
  2. Ronnie H. Fang; Ashley V. Kroll; Weiwei Gao; Liangfang Zhang; Cell Membrane Coating Nanotechnology. Adv. Mater. 2018, 30, e1706759, 10.1002/adma.201706759.
  3. Carla Jiménez-Jiménez; Miguel Manzano; María Vallet-Regí; Nanoparticles Coated with Cell Membranes for Biomedical Applications. Biol. 2020, 9, 406, 10.3390/biology9110406.
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