Key Laboratory of Developmental Genes and Human Disease, Ministry of Education, Medical School, Southeast University, Nanjing 210009, People's Republic of China.
Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, KSA.
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2021 May 26;13(20):23396-23409. doi: 10.1021/acsami.1c02822. Epub 2021 May 13.
Paclitaxel (PTX) is a first-line chemotherapeutic drug for breast cancer, but PTX resistance often occurs in metastatic breast cancer. In addition, due to the poor targeting of chemotherapeutic drugs and the presence of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), it is hard to effectively treat brain metastatic breast cancer using paclitaxel. Thus, it is urgent to develop an effective drug delivery system for the treatment of brain metastatic breast cancer. The current study found that gene, an epithelial-mesenchymal transition-associated gene, was overexpressed in brain metastatic breast cancer (231-BR) cells and was associated with the PTX resistance of 231-BR cells. Knockdown of by small interference RNA (siRNA) in 231-BR cells could effectively increase the sensitivity of brain metastatic breast cancer cells to paclitaxel. Then, a liposome-based drug delivery system was developed for PTX delivery across BBB, enhancing PTX sensitivity and brain metastases targeting via BRBP1 peptide modification. The results showed that BRBP1-modified liposomes could effectively cross the BBB, specifically accumulate in brain metastases, and effectively interfere gene expression and , and thus they enhanced proliferation inhibition, cell cycle arrest, and apoptosis induction, thereby inhibiting the formation and growth of brain metastases. In summary, our results indicated that BRBP1-modified and PTX- and TWF1 siRNA-loaded liposomes have the potential for the treatment of brain metastatic breast cancer, which lays the foundation for the development of a new targeted drug delivery system.
紫杉醇(PTX)是乳腺癌的一线化疗药物,但转移性乳腺癌常出现 PTX 耐药。此外,由于化疗药物靶向性差和血脑屏障(BBB)的存在,用紫杉醇难以有效治疗脑转移性乳腺癌。因此,迫切需要开发一种有效的药物递送系统来治疗脑转移性乳腺癌。本研究发现,基因在脑转移性乳腺癌(231-BR)细胞中高表达,与 231-BR 细胞对 PTX 的耐药性有关。用小干扰 RNA(siRNA)敲低 231-BR 细胞中的 基因可有效增加脑转移性乳腺癌细胞对紫杉醇的敏感性。然后,开发了一种基于脂质体的药物递送系统,用于 PTX 通过 BBB 的递送,通过 BRBP1 肽修饰增强 PTX 敏感性和脑转移靶向性。结果表明,BRBP1 修饰的脂质体可有效穿透 BBB,特异性聚集在脑转移部位,并有效干扰 基因表达和,从而增强增殖抑制、细胞周期阻滞和凋亡诱导,从而抑制脑转移的形成和生长。总之,我们的结果表明,BRBP1 修饰和载有 PTX 和 TWF1 siRNA 的脂质体具有治疗脑转移性乳腺癌的潜力,为开发新的靶向药物递送系统奠定了基础。