Reduction-Cleavable Polymeric Vesicles with Efficient Glutathione-Mediated Drug Release Behavior for Reversing Drug Resistance
Reduction-Cleavable Polymeric Vesicles with Efficient Glutathione-Mediated Drug Release Behavior for Reversing Drug Resistance
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具有有效谷胱甘肽介导的药物释放行为以逆转耐药性的还原可裂解聚合物囊泡
DOI:
10.1021/am402860v
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发表时间:
2013-11-13
影响因子:
9.5
通讯作者:
Ou, Zhouluo
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作者:
Ren, Tianbin;Wu, Wei;Ou, Zhouluo
In the treatment of cancer, multidrug resistance (MDR) has been the major obstacle to the success of chemotherapy. The underlying mechanism relies on the overexpression of drug-efflux transporters that prevent the intracellular transport of the drug. In this study, reduction-cleavable vesicles were designed and developed with efficient glutathione-mediated drug-release behavior for reversing drug resistance. Polymeric vesicles were self-assembled from triblock copolymers with disulfide-bond-linked poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) and poly(epsilon-benzyloxycarbonyl-L-lysine) (PzLL). Observations from transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) outline an obvious hollow structure surrounded by a thin outer layer, indicating the successful formation of the vesicles. Using fluorescently detectable doxorubicin hydrochloride (DOX center dot HCl) as the model drug, a significant acceleration of drug release regulated by glutathione (GSH) was found (>3-fold difference). Upon incubation of the DOX center dot HCl-loaded polymeric vesicles with the HeLa cervical cancer cell line exposed to glutathione, an enhanced nuclear accumulation of DOX center dot HCl was observed, elicited by the preferred disassembly of the vesicle structure under reducing conditions. Importantly, by using the gemcitabine hydrochloride (GC center dot HCl)-resistant breast cancer cell line MDA-MB-231, it was found that cell viability was significantly reduced after treatment with GC. HCl-loaded polymeric vesicles, indicating that these vesicles can help to reverse the drug resistance.