Protein on the surface of EV | Targeting peptide | Parent cell | Function | Effect | Measures of targeting efficiency | Refs. |
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Lamp-2b | RVG | Primary immature Dendritic cells | Alleviate Alzheimer’s disease | Central nervous system specific RVG binds specifically to acetylcholine receptor | Confocal laser imaging colocalization | [24] |
RGD | Leukemia cell line K562 | Promoted therapeutic angiogenesis | Overexpression of αvβ3 integrin on the surface of blood vessels, which specifically binds to RGD peptide | Targeted metabolic labeling technique | [107] | |
IMTP | BMSC | Enhanced vasculogenesis, and cardiac function | IMTP modified EVs can preferentially target ischemic myocardium | Near-Infrared Fluorescence Tracer | [108] | |
CMP | CDCs | Modulating the cardiac remodeling | CMP modified EVs can preferentially target cardiomyocyte | Whole-organ fluorescence imaging | [109] | |
RGE | Raw264.7 | Inhibit glioma | Cross the BBB smoothly, accurately identify gliomas | Fluorescence imaging | [110] | |
CAP | Dendritic cells | Alleviate OA progression | CAP peptide modified EVs can specifically target chondrocytes | Near-Infrared Fluorescence Tracer | [25] | |
T7 | HEK293T cells | Treatment of glioblastoma | T7 peptide has a higher efficiency of brain targeting than RVG peptide | Fluorescence imaging | [111] | |
tLyP-1 | HEK293T cell | Treatment for non-small cell lung cancer | tLyP-1 peptide can selectively target nerve NRP1 and NRP2 | – | [112] | |
E7 | Dendritic cells | Alleviate OA progression | E7 peptide can target SF-MSC | Fluorescence imaging | [113] | |
IL-3 | HEK293T cell | Improve prognosis in CML patients | IL-3 can specifically bind to IL-3R overexpressed in CML | Fluorescence imaging | [114] | |
 | Her2-binding affibody | HEK293T cell | Reverse the drug resistance in colorectal cancer | Her2-binding affibody binds to Her2 overexpressed on the surface of HCT-1165FR cancer cells | Fluorescence imaging | [46] |
PDGFR | GE11 | HEK293T cell | Deliver let-7a to breast cancer tissues that highly express EGFR | The specific binding ability of GE11 peptide to cancer cells overexpressing EGFR is better than EGF | In vivo imaging system monitoring | [104] |
CD63 | myostatin propeptide | NIH3T3 | Treatment for DMD | Propeptide can be anchored on the surface of EVs via CD63 | Flow cytometric analysis | [115] |
OVA antigen | 293-F cells | Improving DNA vaccine immunogenicity | OVA antigen fused to CD63 plasmid to produce EVs of antigen carriers that target CD8+ T cells to enhance immune response | – | [116] |