State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines and School of Life Science and Technology, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China; Department of Pathology, First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines and School of Life Science and Technology, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, China.
J Control Release. 2022 May;345:744-754. doi: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2022.03.060. Epub 2022 Apr 2.
Chemotherapy is a difficult treatment for cancer patients because of the low effective accumulation of chemo-drugs and their detrimental side effects. Nanoparticles have shown promise as a solution to these problems. However, the known differences in the porosity and vascularization of tumor vessels, and other factors, including the potential formation of a "protein crown," the short half-life time in circulation, and the low drug distribution, often limit their application. To address these problems, biomimetic nanoparticles coated with cell membranes have been developed and shown to have advantages such as prolonged circulation, high biocompatibility, and enhanced targeting abilities in drugs and nanoparticles, thus exhibiting good application prospects in cancer therapy for liver, lung, and melanoma cancers. Accordingly, we designed a PH-sensitive biomimetic nanodrug delivery system with a delicate "core-shell" structure based on red blood cell membranes. Briefly, core nanoparticles were synthesized by the self-assembly of natural amphoteric polymers, including hydrophilic carboxymethylcellulose sodium and hydrophobic stearic acid. For the shell structure, red blood cell membranes were modified using folic acid by a lipid tether (1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine) to increase tumor-targeting ability, whereas polyethylene glycol was inserted to decrease lipid tether modification-induced potential sequestration by either the mononuclear phagocyte system or the reticuloendothelial system. Via a series of formulation optimizations, paclitaxel was packaged into the red blood membrane-based core-shell nanoparticles with an average size of 226.9 ± 2.75 nm and a negative Zeta potential of -14.5 ± 0.3 mV. More importantly, the examinations focusing on CD47, a representative red blood cell membrane protein, revealed not only the successful establishment of the membrane shell but also the right-side-out membrane orientation on our core-shell nanoparticles. Our nanodrug delivery system showed good biocompatibility and sensitivity to acidic tumor microenvironments while effectively prolonging the circulation time of paclitaxel and further enhancing its antitumor effects on epithelial malignancies, including liver, lung, and melanoma cancers. In particular, our nanodrug delivery system significantly alleviated paclitaxel-induced renal toxicity. Taken together, our findings highlight that the red blood membrane-based core-shell nanoparticle is a promising biomimetic nanodrug delivery system for functionally delivering chemotherapeutic drugs, and it has promise in clinical applications.
化疗是癌症患者的一种困难治疗方法,因为化疗药物的有效积累低,且具有有害的副作用。纳米颗粒已被证明是解决这些问题的一种有希望的方法。然而,已知肿瘤血管的孔隙率和血管化以及其他因素(包括潜在的“蛋白质冠”形成、循环半衰期短以及药物分布低)存在差异,常常限制了它们的应用。为了解决这些问题,已经开发了包被有细胞膜的仿生纳米颗粒,并显示出在延长循环、高生物相容性和增强药物和纳米颗粒的靶向能力方面具有优势,从而在肝癌、肺癌和黑色素瘤的癌症治疗中具有良好的应用前景。因此,我们设计了一种基于红细胞膜的 PH 敏感仿生纳米药物递送系统,该系统具有精细的“核壳”结构。简而言之,核纳米颗粒是通过自组装包括亲水性羧甲基纤维素钠和疏水性硬脂酸在内的天然两性聚合物合成的。对于壳结构,使用叶酸通过脂质连接物(1,2-二硬脂酰-sn-甘油-3-磷酸乙醇胺)对红细胞膜进行修饰,以增加肿瘤靶向能力,而插入聚乙二醇则可减少脂质连接物修饰引起的单核吞噬细胞系统或网状内皮系统的潜在隔离。通过一系列制剂优化,将紫杉醇包封到基于红细胞膜的核壳纳米颗粒中,平均粒径为 226.9 ± 2.75nm,Zeta 电位为-14.5 ± 0.3mV。更重要的是,针对 CD47(一种代表性的红细胞膜蛋白)的检查不仅揭示了膜壳的成功建立,还揭示了我们的核壳纳米颗粒上膜的正确取向。我们的纳米药物递送系统表现出良好的生物相容性和对酸性肿瘤微环境的敏感性,同时有效延长了紫杉醇的循环时间,并进一步增强了其对上皮恶性肿瘤(包括肝癌、肺癌和黑色素瘤)的抗肿瘤作用。特别是,我们的纳米药物递送系统显著减轻了紫杉醇引起的肾毒性。总之,我们的研究结果表明,基于红细胞膜的核壳纳米颗粒是一种很有前途的仿生纳米药物递送系统,可用于功能递送达卡巴他赛等化疗药物,并且具有临床应用的潜力。
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