调整分子聚合物瓶刷的亲水性-疏水性平衡可增强其肿瘤归巢特性。
Tuning the Hydrophilic-Hydrophobic Balance of Molecular Polymer Bottlebrushes Enhances their Tumor Homing Properties.
机构信息
Key Centre for Polymers and Colloids, School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.
Department of NanoEngineering, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA, 92039, USA.
出版信息
Adv Healthc Mater. 2022 Jun;11(12):e2200163. doi: 10.1002/adhm.202200163. Epub 2022 Feb 27.
Nanoparticle (NP)-based drug delivery systems are promising in anticancer therapy, capable of delivering cargo with superior selectivity and achieving enhanced tumor accumulation compared to small-molecule therapeutics. As more efforts are being devoted to NP development, molecular polymer bottlebrushes (MPBs) have gained attention as a potential drug delivery vehicle. To date, the influence of various MPB parameters such as size, shape, and surface charge in determining tumor penetrability have been systematically probed. However, the role of amphiphilicity, specifically the hydrophilic-hydrophobic balance, remains unexplored. In this study, a series of MPBs are employed with varied hydrophobicity levels to reveal a dependence between MPB composition, cell association, and tumor homing. The data indicates that increasing levels of hydrophobicity in MPBs (to a certain level) demonstrate only marginal effects in vitro but reveals enhanced tumor homing in a mouse model of ovarian cancer in vivo, where more hydrophilic MPBs exhibit low tissue deposition and low tumor homing. In contrast, more hydrophobic MPBs show significant tumor accumulation and homing due to their engineered hydrophobicity.
基于纳米粒子 (NP) 的药物输送系统在抗癌治疗中很有前途,能够比小分子治疗剂更具选择性地输送货物,并实现增强的肿瘤积累。随着对 NP 开发的投入越来越多,分子聚合物刷(MPB)作为一种潜在的药物输送载体引起了人们的关注。迄今为止,已经系统地研究了各种 MPB 参数(如大小、形状和表面电荷)在确定肿瘤通透性方面的影响。然而,亲水性的作用,特别是亲水-疏水平衡,仍然没有得到探索。在这项研究中,使用了一系列具有不同疏水性水平的 MPB,以揭示 MPB 组成、细胞关联和肿瘤归巢之间的依赖关系。数据表明,MPB 中疏水性的增加(在一定程度上)仅在体外表现出微小的影响,但在卵巢癌的小鼠模型中显示出增强的肿瘤归巢,其中更亲水的 MPB 表现出低组织沉积和低肿瘤归巢。相比之下,由于其工程化的疏水性,更疏水的 MPB 显示出显著的肿瘤积累和归巢。