Motoyama Keiichi, Hirai Yumi, Nishiyama Rena, Maeda Yuki, Higashi Taishi, Ishitsuka Yoichi, Kondo Yuki, Irie Tetsumi, Era Takumi, Arima Hidetoshi
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, 5-1 Oe-honmachi, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto 862-0973, Japan.
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, 5-1 Oe-honmachi, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto 862-0973, Japan ; Program for Leading Graduate Schools "HIGO (Health life science: Interdisciplinary and Glocal Oriented) Program", Kumamoto University, 5-1 Oe-honmachi, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto 862-0973, Japan.
Beilstein J Org Chem. 2015 Nov 3;11:2079-86. doi: 10.3762/bjoc.11.224. eCollection 2015.
The Niemann-Pick type C disease (NPC) is one of inherited lysosomal storage disorders, emerges the accumulation of unesterified cholesterol in endolysosomes. Currently, 2-hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (HP-β-CyD) has been applied for the treatment of NPC. HP-β-CyD improved hepatosplenomegaly in NPC patients, however, a high dose of HP-β-CyD was necessary. Therefore, the decrease in dose by actively targeted-β-CyD to hepatocytes is expected. In the present study, to deliver β-CyD selectively to hepatocytes, we newly fabricated mono-lactose-appended β-CyD (Lac-β-CyD) and evaluated its cholesterol lowering effects in NPC-like HepG2 cells, cholesterol accumulated HepG2 cells induced by treatment with U18666A. Lac-β-CyD (degree of substitution of lactose (DSL) 1) significantly decreased the intracellular cholesterol content in a concentration-dependent manner. TRITC-Lac-β-CyD was associated with NPC-like HepG2 cells higher than TRITC-β-CyD. In addition, TRITC-Lac-β-CyD was partially localized with endolysosomes after endocytosis. Thus, Lac-β-CyD entered NPC-like HepG2 cells via asialoglycoprotein receptor (ASGPR)-mediated endocytosis and decreased the accumulation of intracellular cholesterol in NPC-like HepG2 cells. These results suggest that Lac-β-CyD may have the potential as a drug for the treatment of hepatosplenomegaly in NPC disease.
尼曼-匹克C型病(NPC)是一种遗传性溶酶体贮积症,会导致未酯化胆固醇在内溶酶体中蓄积。目前,2-羟丙基-β-环糊精(HP-β-CyD)已被用于治疗NPC。HP-β-CyD改善了NPC患者的肝脾肿大,然而,需要高剂量的HP-β-CyD。因此,期望通过将β-环糊精主动靶向肝细胞来降低剂量。在本研究中,为了将β-环糊精选择性地递送至肝细胞,我们新制备了单乳糖附加β-环糊精(Lac-β-CyD),并评估了其在NPC样HepG2细胞(用U18666A处理诱导胆固醇蓄积的HepG2细胞)中的降胆固醇作用。Lac-β-CyD(乳糖取代度(DSL)为1)以浓度依赖的方式显著降低了细胞内胆固醇含量。TRITC-Lac-β-CyD与NPC样HepG2细胞的结合高于TRITC-β-CyD。此外,TRITC-Lac-β-CyD在胞吞作用后部分定位于内溶酶体。因此,Lac-β-CyD通过去唾液酸糖蛋白受体(ASGPR)介导的胞吞作用进入NPC样HepG2细胞,并降低了NPC样HepG2细胞内胆固醇的蓄积。这些结果表明,Lac-β-CyD可能具有作为治疗NPC病肝脾肿大药物的潜力。