Journal: Bioactive Materials
Article Title: Delivering LINE1 antisense oligonucleotides via endothelial targeting extracellular vesicles to ameliorate myocardial infarction-induced cardiac senescence
doi: 10.1016/j.bioactmat.2025.07.008
Figure Lengend Snippet: SBP-LINE1-EVs relieved cardiac senescence and the innate immune response by maintaining genomic stability and inhibiting the cGAS-STING signaling pathway. (A) Representative images of LINE1 and the cardiac marker α-SA immunofluorescence staining of ventricle tissue in each group of mice at 28 days after MI . The expression of LINE1 was quantified (n = 5). Scale bar, 50 μm. (B) Representative images of β-gal-stained samples from each group of mice at 28 days after MI (n = 5). (C-D) Representative images of immunofluorescence staining for the cytoplasmic DNA sensors cGAS (C) and STING (D) in ventricular tissue from each group of mice 28 days after MI. The expression of cGAS and STING was quantified (n = 5). Scale bar, 50 μm. (E) Representative images of IFN-β immunofluorescence staining of ventricle tissue in each group of mice 28 days after MI , and the expression of IFN-β was quantified (n = 5). Scale bar, 100 μm. (F) Western blot images of LINE1, cGAS, and STING and their downstream phosphorylated forms of TBK1, phosphorylated forms of IRF3, and IFN-β, and the DNA damage marker p53 together with the senescence marker p21 in ventricle tissue from each group of mice at 28 days after MI (n = 3). (G) Western blot images of the DNA damage marker p-H2A.X Ser139 and the epigenetic markers H3K4me3, H3K9me3, and H3K27me3 in the ventricle tissue of each group of mice at 28 days after MI (n = 3). All the data are expressed as the mean ± s.d. P values were calculated via one-way ANOVA with Tukey's HSD multiple comparison post hoc test. ∗ P < 0.05, ∗∗ P < 0.01, n ≥ 6.
Article Snippet: To generate the EVs containing LINE1-ASO, 500 μg of naive EVs and 100 or 200 pmol of LINE1 antisense oligonucleotide (LINE1-ASO) were diluted in Gene Pulser Electroporation Buffer and transferred to ice-cold 0.4 cm or 0.2 cm Gene Pulser/MicroPulser Electroporation Cuvette (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA, USA).
Techniques: Marker, Immunofluorescence, Staining, Expressing, Western Blot, Comparison