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PROJECT

Background

Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have a negative effect on health. [1] People are generally considered obese when their body mass index (BMI), a measurement obtained by dividing a person's weight by the square of the person's height, is over 30 kg/m2, with the range 25–30 kg/m2 defined as overweight. [1]

We need to perceive this: obesity, or excess fat, is not simply an obstacle to many people pursuing beauty. It also stands in the way of health acquiring, sharing connection with various diseases, like cardiovascular diseases, obstructive sleep apnea, type 2 diabetes, depression, certain types of cancer and so on. [2][3] What’s worse, obesity is now one of the major evitable causes for death globally. [4][5] In general, obesity cut down life expectancy by six to seven years. As for the number of obese people, in 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults, aged 18 and above, were overweight. Of these over 650 million were obese. 39% of adults aged 18 years and over were overweight in 2016, and 13% were obese. [1]

Map of Obesity in Adult Males (% of adult population with en:BMI 30+) per country. Using data updated until December 2008.

In fact, given the severe circumstance, in 2013, the American medical association has classified obesity as a disease. [6]

While the prevalence of obesity continued to grow, people weren’t just sitting these years away and did nothing against obesity. To lose weight, some change their lifestyle. People trying to lose weight have to refuse high calorie food and switch to healthier food like fiber-rich vegetables, and try to exercise more. Besides, some people might get help from medications. The legal medications in the market usually work by inhibiting appetite (like Sibutramine), reducing the degradation and absorption of fat (like Orlistat), or regulating the metabolism of fat. [7]

We have seen the traditional methods to lose weight. Many of them are prevalent, and we cannot deny their efficacy. However, it’s not hard to find these traditional methods’ defects: changing lifestyle is usually unpleasant and perseverance-needed, and even if you get the positive feedback, the probability to regain weight is also quite high. [7] As for medications, they may bring out inevitable side effects, like oily stool. Some company had to retract their medications for safety concerns. For example, Sibutramine, an Australian drug, had to be recalled for harmful influence on heart diseases. [7]
Therefore, undoubtedly we need a better solution to address the obesity issue.

Design

Left: fat mice treated by inducing adipocytes’ apoptosis

As we trace back to the source of obesity, we can see its relevance to adipocytes, which store fat derived from the diet and from liver metabolism. There are two types of adipose tissue, white adipose tissue (WAT) and brown adipose tissue (BAT), which are also known as white fat and brown fat, respectively, and comprise two types of fat cells.

When fat accumulates, the size of adipocytes increases. If the adipocytes in the body reach their maximum capacity of fat, they may replicate to allow additional fat storage.Since the number and the size of adipocytes affect human’s weight status, and it has been proved valid to decrease mice’s weight by targeted ablation of adipose tissue. [8]

Thus, we decided to use design a specific gene-targeted delivery system to help regulate the apoptosis of adipose tissues. To fulfil such a goal, a targeted gene, a gene-regulating tool, a targeting tool and a delivery vesicle have to be selected or created.

1) BCL-2 gene

BCL-2 gene encodes BCL-2 protein (B-cell lymphoma 2), the founding member of the Bcl-2 family of regulator proteins that regulate cell death (apoptosis), by either inducing (pro-apoptotic) or inhibiting (anti-apoptotic) apoptosis. [9][10] Since BCL-2 Can inhibit the activity of pro-apoptotic proteins in adipose tissues, we can induce adipocyte apoptosis by decrease BCL-2 gene’s expression.

2) RNAi

RNA interference (RNAi) is an endogenous regulatory pathway that is triggered by small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), and by the activated RNAi pathway, siRNA can silence the expression of any genes with high efficiency [11].

RNAi silencing is initiated when double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) is processed into siRNA between 19-26 base pairs in length by an RNase III enzyme called Dicer. Subsequently, siRNA unwinds, one of the strands is degraded, and the other strand is incorporated into RNA-induced silencing complexes (RISCs) and guides the complex to recognize messenger RNA (mRNA) sequences with perfect or nearly perfect complementarity, resulting in cleavage and degradation of the target, thereby interrupting protein synthesis of the target gene.

The RNAi process. dsRNA is processed into siRNA by the endonuclease Dicer. The siRNA is loaded into the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC), followed by cleavage and release of the passenger strand. The guide strand then associates with a homologous mRNA strand by conventional base paring, and the mRNA strand is cleaved by RISC and released for further degradation within the cytoplasm.

RNAi is a promising applicable mechanism that has the potential to spark a revolution in medicine.
In the few years since biotechnologists have adopted RNAi, this technique has already earned a place among the major technology platforms. This powerful RNA-based mechanism by which cells can perform sequence-specific post-transcriptional gene silencing has great potential for therapeutic application in diseased cells. Initial studies were conducted in diseases requiring localized delivery. To date, locally delivered siRNAs have been used in clinical trials for diseases primarily involving the eye, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD), diabetic macular edema (DME) and glaucoma, and a small number of other diseases involving respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections, pachyonychia congenita and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Later, with improvements in nanocarrier technology, systemically delivered siRNA-based therapeutics outnumbered locally delivered siRNA-based therapeutics, leading to a greater number of medical breakthroughs [12].

In the meantime, RNAi is already profitable. Although still in the proving stages as a therapeutic method, RNAi is providing a number of business opportunities. John Berriman, a director at the venture capital firm Abingworth Management Limited (London), estimates that such therapeutics could eventually capture as much as 10% of the drug market. He and others believe that this possibility could translate into billions of dollars in a market that sees revenues of hundreds of millions of dollars annually for some drugs [13]. Fascinatingly, nanomaterial delivery technologies motivate companies to invest. The global RNAi drug delivery market using nanomaterials is expected to grow to nearly $24 billion by 2015 at a 5 year compound annual growth rate of 27.9% [14].

Hopefully, in the long run, gene therapy using RNAi will become common practice in treating a range of diseases, particularly those associated with oncogenesis and infectious disease. And we chose this technique to regulate our target gene.

Global analysis on the RNAi market for 2014. (A) RNAi companies by continent. (B) RNAi market between 2004 and 2014.

3) tPep: CKGGRAKDC

tPep is a targeting peptide that actually serves as the ligand of the prohibitin, a multifunction membrane protein in white fat tissues. [8] We can take prohibitin as a marker of adipose tissues, which makes tPep a perfect targeting tool.

4) exosome

The biggest obstacle for successful clinical application of siRNA is to develop a safe and effective delivery system directed at the target tissues only. Current techniques for small RNA transfer use viruses or synthetic agents as delivery vehicles. The replacement of these delivery vehicles with a low toxicity and high target-specific approach is essential for making siRNA therapy feasible.

Recently, increasing attention has been given to the use of endogenous exosomes as a novel siRNA delivery system. Exosomes are natural, nano-sized intraluminal vesicles with a diameter ranging between 40 and 100 nm [15]. Released by most cell types, exosomes are present in almost all biological fluids and function as natural transporters of bioactive molecules (proteins, mRNAs, and small RNAs) between neighboring cells. The cargoes that exosomes carry can be gene expression-regulatory functionally in the recipient cells; thus, exosomes are known as the communicators of the microenvironment.

The detailed process of exosomal siRNA transfer is shown as follows. First, cytosolic siRNA is incorporated into the exosomes during invagination of the endosomal membrane. When the MVB fuses with the plasma membrane, exosomal siRNA is released into the circulation simultaneous with the release of exosomes. Subsequently, exosomes bind to the plasma membrane of a target cell, and then exosomes either fuse directly with the plasma membrane or are first endocytosed and then fuse with the delimiting membrane of an endocytic compartment. Both pathways result in the delivery of the exosomal siRNA to the cytosol of the target cell where it may associate with and silence corresponding mRNA [16] [17].

In conclusion, as exosomes have the intrinsic ability to traverse biological barriers and naturally transport functional small RNAs between cells with a character ——potentially better tolerated by the immune system because they are nano-carriers derived from endogenous cells, we picked exosomes to be our delivery vesicles.

Reference

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+                        Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have a negative effect on health. [1] People are generally considered obese when their body mass index (BMI), a measurement obtained by dividing a person's weight by the square of the person's height, is over 30 kg/m2, with the range 25–30 kg/m2 defined as overweight. [1]
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+                        We need to perceive this: obesity, or excess fat, is not simply an obstacle to many people pursuing beauty. It also stands in the way of health acquiring, sharing connection with various diseases, like cardiovascular diseases, obstructive sleep apnea, type 2 diabetes, depression, certain types of cancer and so on. [2][3] What’s worse, obesity is now one of the major evitable causes for death globally. [4][5] In general, obesity cut down life expectancy by six to seven years. As for the number of obese people, in 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults, aged 18 and above, were overweight. Of these over 650 million were obese. 39% of adults aged 18 years and over were overweight in 2016, and 13% were obese. [1]
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+                    <i >Map of Obesity in Adult Males (% of adult population with en:BMI 30+) per country. Using data updated until December 2008.</i>
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+                    In fact, given the severe circumstance, in 2013, the American medical association has classified obesity as a disease. [6]
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+                    While the prevalence of obesity continued to grow, people weren’t just sitting these years away and did nothing against obesity. To lose weight, some change their lifestyle. People trying to lose weight have to refuse high calorie food and switch to healthier food like fiber-rich vegetables, and try to exercise more. Besides, some people might get help from medications. The legal medications in the market usually work by inhibiting appetite (like Sibutramine), reducing the degradation and absorption of fat (like Orlistat), or regulating the metabolism of fat. [7]
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+                    We have seen the traditional methods to lose weight. Many of them are prevalent, and we cannot deny their efficacy. However, it’s not hard to find these traditional methods’ defects: changing lifestyle is usually unpleasant and perseverance-needed, and even if you get the positive feedback, the probability to regain weight is also quite high. [7] As for medications, they may bring out inevitable side effects, like oily stool. Some company had to retract their medications for safety concerns. For example, Sibutramine, an Australian drug, had to be recalled for harmful influence on heart diseases. [7]
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+                    Therefore, undoubtedly we need a better solution to address the obesity issue.
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+                        As we trace back to the source of obesity, we can see its relevance to adipocytes, which store fat derived from the diet and from liver metabolism. There are two types of adipose tissue, white adipose tissue (WAT) and brown adipose tissue (BAT), which are also known as white fat and brown fat, respectively, and comprise two types of fat cells.
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+                        When fat accumulates, the size of adipocytes increases. If the adipocytes in the body reach their maximum capacity of fat, they may replicate to allow additional fat storage.Since the number and the size of adipocytes affect human’s weight status, and it has been proved valid to decrease mice’s weight by targeted ablation of adipose tissue. [8]
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+                        Thus, we decided to use design a specific gene-targeted delivery system to help regulate the apoptosis of adipose tissues. To fulfil such a goal, a targeted gene, a gene-regulating tool, a targeting tool and a delivery vesicle have to be selected or created.
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+                    BCL-2 gene encodes BCL-2 protein (B-cell lymphoma 2), the founding member of the Bcl-2 family of regulator proteins that regulate cell death (apoptosis), by either inducing (pro-apoptotic) or inhibiting (anti-apoptotic) apoptosis. [9][10] Since BCL-2
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+                    Can inhibit the activity of pro-apoptotic proteins in adipose tissues, we can induce adipocyte apoptosis by decrease BCL-2 gene’s expression.
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-            Obesity problem has become increasingly disturbing these years and arouses widespread concern. Causing terrible diseases like diabetes and certain types of cancer, obesity takes a major toll on human health worldwide. Traditional methods to lose weight are either easy to rebound or associated with side effects, and a perfect treatment of obesity has not appeared yet so far. The goal of our project is to develop a new strategy to treat obesity, with building a transplantable system targeting a specific molecule that functions in white fat tissues.
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-           Given that the reason for fat accumulation lays in both the large number and volume of adipocytes, inducing the apoptosis of adipocytes and white fat tissues would theoretically have therapeutic value in the treatment of obesity. It is known to us that BCL-2 protein inhibits the activity of pro-apoptotic proteins in adipocytes and therefore inhibits adipocyte apoptosis. Thus, this project selected BCL-2 gene as a therapeutic target for the treatment of obesity and for the prevention of a relapse of obesity.
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-siRNAs are emerging as promising therapeutic drugs against a wide array of diseases. The key obstacle for successful clinical application of siRNA is to develop a safe and effective delivery system directed at the target tissues only. Current techniques for small RNA transfer use viruses or synthetic agents as delivery vehicles. The replacement of these delivery vehicles with a low toxicity and high target-specific approach is essential for making siRNA therapy feasible.  Because exosomes have the intrinsic ability to traverse biological barriers and to naturally transport functional small RNAs between cells, exosomes potentially represent a novel and exciting delivery vehicle for the field of siRNA therapy. As therapeutic delivery agents, exosomes will potentially be better tolerated by the immune system because they are natural nanocarriers derived from endogenous cells. Furthermore, exosomes derived from cells engineered to express siRNAs and surface proteins may be capable of delivering these small RNAs to the target cells. Thus, exosome-based delivery of siRNAs may provide an untapped source of effective delivery strategy to overcome impediments such as inefficiency, unspecificity and immunogenic reactions.
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-In iGEM 2017, NJU-China designed a part (BBa_K1180002???) coding the adipocyte-targeting tPep-Lamp2b fusion protein. We just got some preliminary data both in vitro and in vivo proving that tPep-exosomes can be delivered into the fat tissues located in groin and back in the first half of this year. In recent months, we have tested the function of this parts in detail and entered the experiment data in in the part's page on the Registry.
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-We employed HEK 293 cells as donor cells to acquire exosomes expressing tPep-Lamp2b fusion protein on the surface. Then we modified our exosome with such peptide to act as white-fat-tissue-specific targeting tool. The siRNA will function to bring out the apoptosis of fat tissue. Our validation experiments were carried out at the level of cells and animals (mice), proving both the targeting and function of siRNA. Eventually, we saw a specific accumulation of the siRNA in the mice’s white fat tissue, which caused obvious adipocyte apoptosis. And therefore we observed the decrease of mice’s fat and weights. This project may successfully provide new insights into future treatment of obesity.
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-            Obesity problem has become increasingly disturbing these years and arouses widespread concern. Causing terrible diseases like diabetes and certain types of cancer, obesity takes a major toll on human health worldwide. Traditional methods to lose weight are either easy to rebound or associated with side effects, and a perfect treatment of obesity has not appeared yet so far. The goal of our project is to develop a new strategy to treat obesity, with building a transplantable system targeting a specific molecule that functions in white fat tissues.
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-           Given that the reason for fat accumulation lays in both the large number and volume of adipocytes, inducing the apoptosis of adipocytes and white fat tissues would theoretically have therapeutic value in the treatment of obesity. It is known to us that BCL-2 protein inhibits the activity of pro-apoptotic proteins in adipocytes and therefore inhibits adipocyte apoptosis. Thus, this project selected BCL-2 gene as a therapeutic target for the treatment of obesity and for the prevention of a relapse of obesity.
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-siRNAs are emerging as promising therapeutic drugs against a wide array of diseases. The key obstacle for successful clinical application of siRNA is to develop a safe and effective delivery system directed at the target tissues only. Current techniques for small RNA transfer use viruses or synthetic agents as delivery vehicles. The replacement of these delivery vehicles with a low toxicity and high target-specific approach is essential for making siRNA therapy feasible.  Because exosomes have the intrinsic ability to traverse biological barriers and to naturally transport functional small RNAs between cells, exosomes potentially represent a novel and exciting delivery vehicle for the field of siRNA therapy. As therapeutic delivery agents, exosomes will potentially be better tolerated by the immune system because they are natural nanocarriers derived from endogenous cells. Furthermore, exosomes derived from cells engineered to express siRNAs and surface proteins may be capable of delivering these small RNAs to the target cells. Thus, exosome-based delivery of siRNAs may provide an untapped source of effective delivery strategy to overcome impediments such as inefficiency, unspecificity and immunogenic reactions.
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-In iGEM 2017, NJU-China designed a part (BBa_K1180002???) coding the adipocyte-targeting tPep-Lamp2b fusion protein. We just got some preliminary data both in vitro and in vivo proving that tPep-exosomes can be delivered into the fat tissues located in groin and back in the first half of this year. In recent months, we have tested the function of this parts in detail and entered the experiment data in in the part's page on the Registry.
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-We employed HEK 293 cells as donor cells to acquire exosomes expressing tPep-Lamp2b fusion protein on the surface. Then we modified our exosome with such peptide to act as white-fat-tissue-specific targeting tool. The siRNA will function to bring out the apoptosis of fat tissue. Our validation experiments were carried out at the level of cells and animals (mice), proving both the targeting and function of siRNA. Eventually, we saw a specific accumulation of the siRNA in the mice’s white fat tissue, which caused obvious adipocyte apoptosis. And therefore we observed the decrease of mice’s fat and weights. This project may successfully provide new insights into future treatment of obesity.
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+                    RNAi silencing is initiated when double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) is processed into siRNA between 19-26 base pairs in length by an RNase III enzyme called Dicer. Subsequently, siRNA unwinds, one of the strands is degraded, and the other strand is incorporated into RNA-induced silencing complexes (RISCs) and guides the complex to recognize messenger RNA (mRNA) sequences with perfect or nearly perfect complementarity, resulting in cleavage and degradation of the target, thereby interrupting protein synthesis of the target gene.
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+                        The RNAi process. dsRNA is processed into siRNA by the endonuclease Dicer. The siRNA is loaded into the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC), followed by cleavage and release of the passenger strand. The guide strand then associates with a homologous mRNA strand by conventional base paring, and the mRNA strand is cleaved by RISC and released for further degradation within the cytoplasm.
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+                    RNAi is a promising applicable mechanism that has the potential to spark a revolution in medicine.
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+                    In the few years since biotechnologists have adopted RNAi, this technique has already earned a place among the major technology platforms. This powerful RNA-based mechanism by which cells can perform sequence-specific post-transcriptional gene silencing has great potential for therapeutic application in diseased cells. Initial studies were conducted in diseases requiring localized delivery. To date, locally delivered siRNAs have been used in clinical trials for diseases primarily involving the eye, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD), diabetic macular edema (DME) and glaucoma, and a small number of other diseases involving respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections, pachyonychia congenita and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Later, with improvements in nanocarrier technology, systemically delivered siRNA-based therapeutics outnumbered locally delivered siRNA-based therapeutics, leading to a greater number of medical breakthroughs [12].
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+                    In the meantime, RNAi is already profitable. Although still in the proving stages as a therapeutic method, RNAi is providing a number of business opportunities. John Berriman, a director at the venture capital firm Abingworth Management Limited (London), estimates that such therapeutics could eventually capture as much as 10% of the drug market. He and others believe that this possibility could translate into billions of dollars in a market that sees revenues of hundreds of millions of dollars annually for some drugs [13]. Fascinatingly, nanomaterial delivery technologies motivate companies to invest. The global RNAi drug delivery market using nanomaterials is expected to grow to nearly $24 billion by 2015 at a 5 year compound annual growth rate of 27.9% [14].
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+                    Hopefully, in the long run, gene therapy using RNAi will become common practice in treating a range of diseases, particularly those associated with oncogenesis and infectious disease. And we chose this technique to regulate our target gene.
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+                    tPep is a targeting peptide that actually serves as the ligand of the prohibitin, a multifunction membrane protein in white fat tissues. [8] We can take prohibitin as a marker of adipose tissues, which makes tPep a perfect targeting tool.
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+                    The biggest obstacle for successful clinical application of siRNA is to develop a safe and effective delivery system directed at the target tissues only. Current techniques for small RNA transfer use viruses or synthetic agents as delivery vehicles. The replacement of these delivery vehicles with a low toxicity and high target-specific approach is essential for making siRNA therapy feasible.
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+                        Recently, increasing attention has been given to the use of endogenous exosomes as a novel siRNA delivery system. Exosomes are natural, nano-sized intraluminal vesicles with a diameter ranging between 40 and 100 nm [15]. Released by most cell types, exosomes are present in almost all biological fluids and function as natural transporters of bioactive molecules (proteins, mRNAs, and small RNAs) between neighboring cells. The cargoes that exosomes carry can be gene expression-regulatory functionally in the recipient cells; thus, exosomes are known as the communicators of the microenvironment.
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+                        The detailed process of exosomal siRNA transfer is shown as follows. First, cytosolic siRNA is incorporated into the exosomes during invagination of the endosomal membrane. When the MVB fuses with the plasma membrane, exosomal siRNA is released into the circulation simultaneous with the release of exosomes. Subsequently, exosomes bind to the plasma membrane of a target cell, and then exosomes either fuse directly with the plasma membrane or are first endocytosed and then fuse with the delimiting membrane of an endocytic compartment. Both pathways result in the delivery of the exosomal siRNA to the cytosol of the target cell where it may associate with and silence corresponding mRNA [16] [17].
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+                    In conclusion, as exosomes have the intrinsic ability to traverse biological barriers and naturally transport functional small RNAs between cells with a character ——potentially better tolerated by the immune system because they are nano-carriers derived from endogenous cells, we picked exosomes to be our delivery vesicles.
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+                 overlay.hide();
-                    limit: 22, // number of images to fetch
+                 trigger.removeClass('is-open');
-                    username: 'NJU-CHINA', // your username
+                trigger.addClass('is-closed');
-                    overlay: true, // add overlay layer of hover effect
+                isClosed = false;
-                    textContainer: '.is-text', // default: '.is-text', pass jQuery object or selector
+              } else {
-                    textPosition: '10', // place that at this position
+                overlay.show();
-                    textSize: '4', // size of text e.g. 1 - has size like one image; 2 - has size of two images etc.
+                trigger.removeClass('is-closed');
-                    accessToken: '3315219258.4b0afec.8788057cf36948e98d27353bee5a77d9'
+                trigger.addClass('is-open');
-                });
+                isClosed = true;
+              }
-    });
+          }
-</script>
+          $('[data-toggle="offcanvas"]').click(function () {
+                $('#wrapper').toggleClass('toggled');
+          });
+        });
+    </script>
 </body>
 </html>