Genetic enhancement of exosome production

Abstract

Levels of expression of antibiotic resistance genes are increased up to six-fold by inserting a proteasome-targeting tag into transgenes expressed in eukaryotic cells. Various selectable marker proteins are combined with different destabilization domains, leading to up to 70% increase in transgene expression. The increase in expression varies highly depending on the engineered construct and the lines cells used. Increase in expression drives exosome loading of cargo proteins in some aspects. By increasing expression and by editing trafficking signals of cargo proteins, proteins that normally locate to the ER can be trafficked to exosomes. This disclosure discloses efficient exosome delivery of a wide variety of engineered proteins, including modified antigen proteins of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza, and other proteins such as a modified alpha galactosidase A, an extracellular domain of vascular endothelial growth factor fused to a constant region of a human immunoglobulin heavy chain, and modified trastuzumab heavy and light chains.

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