Long Ling, Wang Weiwei, Cai Xia-Dong, Cheng DU, Shuai Xintao, Peng Ying
Department of Neurology, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510630, P.R. China ; Department of Neurology, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510120, P.R. China.
Center of Biomedical Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510275, P.R. China.
Exp Ther Med. 2014 May;7(5):1170-1176. doi: 10.3892/etm.2014.1586. Epub 2014 Feb 26.
Resistance to chemotherapy and the side effects of anticancer drugs are the major obstacles for glioma treatment. The aim of the present study was to develop a novel approach for the treatment of gliomas that improved the therapeutic effect; the anticancer drug, doxorubicin (DOX), was combined with short interfering (si)RNA and monomethoxy polyethylene glycol polyethylenimine superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticle (mPEG-PEI-SPION), a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-visible nanoparticle. Specific siRNA molecules, delivered by mPEG-PEI-SPION, were employed to knockdown the PIN2-interacting protein 1 (PinX1) gene in C6 glioma cells. PinX1 is a nucleolar protein associated with telomere and telomerase. C6 cells were treated with DOX and/or PinX1-siRNA. The results of the transfection experiments revealed that siRNA/mPEG-PEI-SPION was transfected into C6 cells with high efficiency. PinX1-siRNA was unable to inhibit C6 cells, while in the PinX1-siRNA + DOX group, the same dose of DOX caused an increased loss of cell viability. Therefore, mPEG-PEI-SPION was shown to be viable for siRNA delivery into C6 cells and coadministration of DOX with PinX1-siRNA may be a potential therapeutic method for inhibiting gliomas.
对化疗的耐药性和抗癌药物的副作用是胶质瘤治疗的主要障碍。本研究的目的是开发一种新的胶质瘤治疗方法以提高治疗效果;将抗癌药物阿霉素(DOX)与短干扰(si)RNA和单甲氧基聚乙二醇聚乙烯亚胺超顺磁性氧化铁纳米颗粒(mPEG-PEI-SPION,一种磁共振成像(MRI)可见的纳米颗粒)相结合。由mPEG-PEI-SPION递送的特异性siRNA分子用于敲低C6胶质瘤细胞中的PIN2相互作用蛋白1(PinX1)基因。PinX1是一种与端粒和端粒酶相关的核仁蛋白。用DOX和/或PinX1-siRNA处理C6细胞。转染实验结果显示,siRNA/mPEG-PEI-SPION能高效转染进入C6细胞。PinX1-siRNA无法抑制C6细胞,而在PinX1-siRNA + DOX组中,相同剂量的DOX导致细胞活力丧失增加。因此,mPEG-PEI-SPION被证明可用于将siRNA递送至C6细胞,并且DOX与PinX1-siRNA联合给药可能是一种抑制胶质瘤的潜在治疗方法。