Biomedical Polymers Laboratory, and Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Design and Application, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, and State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection , Soochow University , Suzhou 215123 , PR China.
ACS Nano. 2018 Nov 27;12(11):11070-11079. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.8b05265. Epub 2018 Nov 8.
The inability to cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB) prevents nearly all chemotherapeutics and biotherapeutics from the effective treatment of brain tumors, rendering few improvements in patient survival rates to date. Here, we report that apolipoprotein E peptide [ApoE, (LRKLRKRLL)C] specifically binds to low-density lipoprotein receptor members (LDLRs) and mediates superb BBB crossing and highly efficient glioblastoma (GBM)-targeted protein therapy in vivo. The in vitro BBB model studies reveal that ApoE induces 2.2-fold better penetration of the immortalized mouse brain endothelial cell line (bEnd.3) monolayer for chimeric polymersomes (CP) compared to Angiopep-2, the best-known BBB-crossing peptide used in clinical trials for GBM therapy. ApoE-installed CP (ApoE-CP) carrying saporin (SAP) displays a highly specific and potent antitumor effect toward U-87 MG cells with a low half-maximum inhibitory concentration of 14.2 nM SAP. Notably, ApoE-CP shows efficient BBB crossing as well as accumulation and penetration in orthotopic U-87 MG glioblastoma. The systemic administration of SAP-loaded ApoE-CP causes complete growth inhibition of orthotopic U-87 MG GBM without eliciting any observable adverse effects, affording markedly improved survival benefits. ApoE peptide provides an ultrahigh-efficiency targeting strategy for GBM therapy.
血脑屏障(BBB)的不可穿透性阻止了几乎所有的化疗药物和生物治疗药物对脑肿瘤的有效治疗,迄今为止,患者的生存率几乎没有提高。在这里,我们报告载脂蛋白 E 肽 [ApoE,(LRKLRKRLL)C] 特异性结合低密度脂蛋白受体成员(LDLRs),介导出色的 BBB 穿透和体内高效脑胶质瘤(GBM)靶向蛋白治疗。体外 BBB 模型研究表明,与 Angiopep-2 相比,ApoE 诱导嵌合聚合物体(CP)穿过永生的小鼠脑内皮细胞系(bEnd.3)单层的穿透性提高了 2.2 倍,而 Angiopep-2 是临床试验中用于 GBM 治疗的最知名的 BBB 穿透肽。携带丝裂霉素(SAP)的 ApoE 安装的 CP(ApoE-CP)显示出对 U-87 MG 细胞的高度特异性和强大的抗肿瘤作用,SAP 的半最大抑制浓度为 14.2 nM。值得注意的是,ApoE-CP 具有有效的 BBB 穿透性以及在原位 U-87 MG 胶质母细胞瘤中的积累和穿透性。SAP 负载的 ApoE-CP 的系统给药导致原位 U-87 MG GBM 的完全生长抑制,而没有引起任何可观察到的不良反应,明显提高了生存获益。ApoE 肽为 GBM 治疗提供了超高效率的靶向策略。
Int J Nanomedicine. 2020-4-23
J Control Release. 2018-11-5
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2024-3-13
Int J Nanomedicine. 2025-8-4
Drug Deliv Transl Res. 2025-3-31
Mol Pharm. 2025-3-3