Division of Radiation Oncology, Department of Radiology, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City 220, Taiwan.
School of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei 112, Taiwan.
Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Mar 12;23(6):3080. doi: 10.3390/ijms23063080.
Mitochondrial-targeting therapy is considered an important strategy for cancer treatment. (3-Carboxypropyl) triphenyl phosphonium (CTPP) is one of the candidate molecules that can drive drugs or nanomedicines to target mitochondria via electrostatic interactions. However, the mitochondrial-targeting effectiveness of CTPP is low. Therefore, pH-sensitive polymer-liposome complexes with charge-conversion copolymers and CTPP-containing cationic liposomes were designed for efficiently delivering an anti-cancer agent, ceramide, into cancer cellular mitochondria. The charge-conversion copolymers, methoxypoly(ethylene glycol)-block-poly(methacrylic acid-g-histidine), were anionic and helped in absorbing and shielding the positive charges of cationic liposomes at pH 7.4. In contrast, charge-conversion copolymers became neutral in order to depart from cationic liposomes and induced endosomal escape for releasing cationic liposomes into cytosol at acidic endosomes. The experimental results reveal that these pH-sensitive polymer-liposome complexes could rapidly escape from MCF-7 cell endosomes and target MCF-7 mitochondria within 3 h, thereby leading to the generation of reactive oxygen species and cell apoptosis. These findings provide a promising solution for cationic liposomes in cancer mitochondrial-targeting drug delivery.
线粒体靶向治疗被认为是癌症治疗的重要策略。(3-羧丙基)三苯基膦(CTPP)是一种候选分子,可以通过静电相互作用将药物或纳米药物驱动到线粒体。然而,CTPP 的线粒体靶向效率较低。因此,设计了具有电荷转换共聚物的 pH 敏感聚合物脂质体复合物和含有 CTPP 的阳离子脂质体,以有效地将抗癌剂神经酰胺递送至癌细胞线粒体。电荷转换共聚物甲氧基聚乙二醇-嵌段-聚(甲基丙烯酸-g-组氨酸)在 pH 7.4 时带负电荷,有助于吸收和屏蔽阳离子脂质体的正电荷。相比之下,电荷转换共聚物在酸性内涵体中变为中性,从而从阳离子脂质体上脱离,并诱导内涵体逃逸,将阳离子脂质体释放到细胞质中。实验结果表明,这些 pH 敏感聚合物脂质体复合物可以在 3 小时内迅速从 MCF-7 细胞内涵体中逃逸,并靶向 MCF-7 线粒体,从而导致活性氧的产生和细胞凋亡。这些发现为阳离子脂质体在癌症线粒体靶向药物传递中提供了一种有前途的解决方案。
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