School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, No.92 West Dazhi Street, Nan Gang District, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, P.R.China.
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2020 Sep 23;12(38):42537-42550. doi: 10.1021/acsami.0c12641. Epub 2020 Sep 10.
The application of natural small products with self-assembly characteristics in a drug-delivery system is attractive for biomedical applications because of its inherent biological safety and pharmacological activity, and there is no complex structural modification process. However, drug carriers with pharmacological effects have not been developed enough. Here, we report a pure natural nanomedicine-cum-carrier (NMC) drug delivery system. The NMC is formed by the direct co-assembly of two small molecular natural compounds through noncovalent interaction, and a molecular dynamics model for predicting the co-assembly of two small molecular compounds was established. The representative co-assembled NMC (oleanolic acid and glycyrrhetinic acid) not only shows excellent stability, high drug loading, and sustained release characteristics but also the co-assembled NMC formed by two small molecular compounds has a synergistic antitumor effect (CI < 0.7). After drug loading, the antitumor effect is further improved. In addition, this NMC highlights the unique advantages of active natural products in biosafety and health benefits. Compared with free drugs, it can reduce the liver damage caused by chemotherapy drugs through upregulating key antioxidant pathways. Compared to nonpharmacologically active drug delivery systems, it can reduce the risk of nanotoxicity. Taken together, this co-assembly drug-carrier system overcomes the shortcomings that pharmacologically active compounds cannot be directly applied, enhances the pharmacological activity of bioactive drug carriers, improves the antitumor efficacy, and slows down the side effects induced by chemotherapy drugs and the additional toxicity caused by long-term use of non-bioactive nanocarriers.
具有自组装特性的天然小分子在药物传递系统中的应用因其固有的生物安全性和药理学活性而受到生物医学应用的青睐,而且没有复杂的结构修饰过程。然而,具有药理作用的药物载体还没有得到充分的发展。在这里,我们报告了一种纯天然的纳米医学-载体(NMC)药物传递系统。NMC 是由两个小分子天然化合物通过非共价相互作用直接共组装形成的,建立了预测两个小分子化合物共组装的分子动力学模型。代表性的共组装 NMC(齐墩果酸和甘草次酸)不仅表现出优异的稳定性、高载药量和持续释放特性,而且由两个小分子化合物共组装形成的 NMC 具有协同抗肿瘤作用(CI<0.7)。药物负载后,抗肿瘤效果进一步提高。此外,这种 NMC 突出了天然活性产物在生物安全性和健康益处方面的独特优势。与游离药物相比,它可以通过上调关键抗氧化途径来减少化疗药物引起的肝损伤。与非药理活性药物传递系统相比,它可以降低纳米毒性的风险。总之,这种共组装药物载体系统克服了药理活性化合物不能直接应用的缺点,增强了生物活性药物载体的药理活性,提高了抗肿瘤疗效,并减缓了化疗药物诱导的副作用和长期使用非生物活性纳米载体引起的额外毒性。
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