Antitumor activity of a folate receptor-targeted immunoglobulin G-doxorubicin conjugate.
Antitumor activity of a folate receptor-targeted immunoglobulin G-doxorubicin conjugate.
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叶酸受体靶向免疫球蛋白 G-阿霉素缀合物的抗肿瘤活性
DOI:
10.2147/ijn.s125591
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发表时间:
2017
影响因子:
8
通讯作者:
Xiang G
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作者:
Yang T;Xu L;Li B;Li W;Ma X;Fan L;Lee RJ;Xu C;Xiang G
Development of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) is a promising therapeutic strategy for cancer therapy. In this study, folate was conjugated via a polyethyleneglycol (PEG) linker to immunoglobulin G (IgG), which was linked to doxorubicin (DOX), to form a novel ADC folate-PEG-IgG-DOX (FA-PEG-IgG-DOX). The FA-PEG-IgG-DOX showed high targeting efficiency in HeLa and KB cells and significantly improved the uptake and retention of DOX compared with IgG-DOX about 10-fold. Subsequently, FA-PEG-IgG-DOX was shown to have at least 8 times higher antitumor activity than IgG-DOX both in HeLa and KB cells and also induced more apoptosis in those cells than IgG-DOX. Moreover, FA-PEG-IgG-DOX had a 2 times longer circulating time than FA-IgG-DOX, but did not increase the DOX distribution in mouse hearts. Importantly, FA-PEG-IgG-DOX treatment significantly inhibited tumor growth in xenograft mice. Together, our results indicate that FA-PEG-IgG is an effective ADC carrier for delivery of chemotherapeutic agents and that conjugating tumor targeting ligands to antibodies is a promising strategy for producing ADC drugs.