PMID- 35203066 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220415 LR - 20220415 IS - 1758-5090 (Electronic) IS - 1758-5082 (Linking) VI - 14 IP - 2 DP - 2022 Mar 9 TI - All-in-one biofabrication and loading of recombinant vaults in human cells. LID - 10.1088/1758-5090/ac584d [doi] AB - One of the most promising approaches in the drug delivery field is the use of naturally occurring self-assembling protein nanoparticles, such as virus-like particles, bacterial microcompartments or vault ribonucleoprotein particles as drug delivery systems (DDSs). Among them, eukaryotic vaults show a promising future due to their structural features,in vitrostability and non-immunogenicity. Recombinant vaults are routinely produced in insect cells and purified through several ultracentrifugations, both tedious and time-consuming processes. As an alternative, this work proposes a new approach and protocols for the production of recombinant vaults in human cells by transient gene expression of a His-tagged version of the major vault protein (MVP-H6), the development of new affinity-based purification processes for such recombinant vaults, and the all-in-one biofabrication and encapsulation of a cargo recombinant protein within such vaults by their co-expression in human cells. Protocols proposed here allow the easy and straightforward biofabrication and purification of engineered vaults loaded with virtually any INT-tagged cargo protein, in very short times, paving the way to faster and easier engineering and production of better and more efficient DDS. CI - Creative Commons Attribution license. FAU - Martin, Fernando AU - Martin F AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3496-9093 AD - Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain. FAU - Carreno, Aida AU - Carreno A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7725-7515 AD - Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain. FAU - Mendoza, Rosa AU - Mendoza R AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0488-4814 AD - Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain. AD - CIBER de Bioingenieria, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain. FAU - Caruana, Pablo AU - Caruana P AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0170-4355 AD - Grup d Oncologia Ginecologica i Peritoneal. Institut d'Investigacions Biomediques Sant Pau, Hospital de Santa Creu i Sant Pau, 08041 Barcelona, Spain. FAU - Rodriguez, Francisco AU - Rodriguez F AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7909-932X AD - Grup d Oncologia Ginecologica i Peritoneal. Institut d'Investigacions Biomediques Sant Pau, Hospital de Santa Creu i Sant Pau, 08041 Barcelona, Spain. FAU - Bravo, Marlon AU - Bravo M AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0065-9812 AD - Laboratori d'Enginyeria de Proteines, Departament de Biologia, Universitat de Girona, 17003 Girona, Spain. AD - Institut d'Investigacio Biomedica de Girona Josep Trueta, (IdIBGi), 17190 Salt, Spain. FAU - Benito, Antoni AU - Benito A AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9776-1003 AD - Laboratori d'Enginyeria de Proteines, Departament de Biologia, Universitat de Girona, 17003 Girona, Spain. AD - Institut d'Investigacio Biomedica de Girona Josep Trueta, (IdIBGi), 17190 Salt, Spain. FAU - Ferrer-Miralles, Neus AU - Ferrer-Miralles N AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2981-3913 AD - Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain. AD - CIBER de Bioingenieria, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain. AD - Departament de Genetica i de Microbiologia, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain. FAU - Cespedes, M Virtudes AU - Cespedes MV AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2956-5833 AD - Grup d Oncologia Ginecologica i Peritoneal. Institut d'Investigacions Biomediques Sant Pau, Hospital de Santa Creu i Sant Pau, 08041 Barcelona, Spain. FAU - Corchero, Jose Luis AU - Corchero JL AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6109-144X AD - Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain. AD - CIBER de Bioingenieria, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain. AD - Departament de Genetica i de Microbiologia, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20220309 PL - England TA - Biofabrication JT - Biofabrication JID - 101521964 RN - 0 (Recombinant Proteins) SB - IM MH - Drug Delivery Systems MH - Humans MH - *Nanoparticles/chemistry MH - Recombinant Proteins/chemistry OTO - NOTNLM OT - drug delivery systems OT - eukaryotic cell factories OT - protein nanocages OT - self-assembling protein nanoparticles OT - vault particles EDAT- 2022/02/25 06:00 MHDA- 2022/04/16 06:00 CRDT- 2022/02/24 20:17 PHST- 2021/02/09 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/02/24 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/02/25 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/04/16 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/02/24 20:17 [entrez] AID - 10.1088/1758-5090/ac584d [doi] PST - epublish SO - Biofabrication. 2022 Mar 9;14(2). doi: 10.1088/1758-5090/ac584d.