Inorganic Nanosheet-Shielded Probiotics: A Self-Adaptable Oral Delivery System for Intestinal Disease Treatment

The oral delivery of probiotics is commonly adopted for intestinal disease treatments in clinical settings; however, the probiotics suffer from a strong acidic attack in the gastric area and the low-efficiency intestinal colonization of naked probiotics. Coating living probiotics with synthetic mate...

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Published in:Nano letters 2023-05, Vol.23 (10), p.4683-4692
Main Authors: Zhu, Ya-Xuan, You, Yanling, Chen, Zhixin, Xu, Deliang, Yue, Wenwen, Ma, Xinxin, Jiang, Junjie, Wu, Wencheng, Lin, Han, Shi, Jianlin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bacteria
Colitis
Humans
Intestines
Probiotics - metabolism
Probiotics - therapeutic use
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Summary:The oral delivery of probiotics is commonly adopted for intestinal disease treatments in clinical settings; however, the probiotics suffer from a strong acidic attack in the gastric area and the low-efficiency intestinal colonization of naked probiotics. Coating living probiotics with synthetic materials has proven effective in enabling the adaption of bacteria to gastrointestinal environments, which, unfortunately, may shield the probiotics from initiating therapeutic responses. In this study, we report a copolymer-modified two-dimensional H-silicene nanomaterial (termed SiH@TPGS-PEI) that can facilitate probiotics to adapt to diverse gastrointestinal microenvironments on-demand. Briefly, SiH@TPGS-PEI electrostatically coated on the surface of probiotic bacteria helps to resist erosive destruction in the acidic stomach and spontaneously degrades by reacting with water to generate hydrogen, an anti-inflammatory gas in response to the neutral/weakly alkaline intestinal environment, thus exposing the probiotic bacteria for colitis amelioration. This strategy may shed new light on the development of intelligent self-adaptive materials.
ISSN:1530-6984
1530-6992
DOI:10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c00118