Efficient intracellular drug and gene delivery using folate receptor-targeted pH-sensitive liposomes composed of cationic/anionic lipid combinations
Efficient intracellular drug and gene delivery using folate receptor-targeted pH-sensitive liposomes composed of cationic/anionic lipid combinations
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DOI:
10.1016/s0168-3659(02)00017-2
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发表时间:
2002-04-23
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10.8
通讯作者:
Lee, RJ
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作者:
Shi, GF;Guo, WJ;Lee, RJ
pH-sensitive liposomes are designed to promote efficient release of entrapped agents in response to low pH. In this study, novel pH-sensitive liposomes consisting of cationic/anionic lipid combinations are evaluated for intracellular drug and gene delivery. First, liposomes composed of egg phosphatidylcholine. dimethldioctacylammonium bromide (DDAB), cholesteryl hemisuccinate (CHEMS), and Tween-80 (25:25:49:1, mol/mol) were shown to stably entrap calcein at pH 7.4 and undergo rapid content release and irreversible aggregation under acidic pH. Compared to pH-sensitive liposomes incorporating dioleoylphosphatidylethanolamine, these liposomes showed improved retention of pH-sensitivity in the presence of serum. The folate receptor (FR), which is amplified in a wide variety of human tumors, could be targeted by incorporating 0.1 mol% folate-polyethyleneglycol-phosphatidylethanolamine (f-PEG-PE) into liposomes. f-PEG-PE has been shown to facilitate FR-mediated endocytosis of liposomes into KB human oral cancer cells, which express amplified FR. FR-targeted pH-sensitive liposomes produced increased cytosolic release of entrapped calcein. as shown by fluorescence microscopy, and enhanced cytotoxicity of entrapped cytosine-beta-D-arabinofuranoside. as shown by an 11-fold reduction in the IC50 in KB cells. compared to FR-targeted non-pH-sensitive liposomes. Furthermore, FR-targeted pH-sensitive liposomes composed of DDAB/CHEMS/f-PEG-PE. combined with polylysine-condensed plasmid DNA, were shown to mediate FR-specific delivery of a luciferase reporter gene into KB cells in the presence of 10% serum. These findings suggest that cationic lipid-containing pH-sensitive liposomes, combined with FR targeting, are effective vehicles for intracellular drug and gene delivery. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.