Department of Molecular Pharmaceutics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States.
Utah Center for Nanomedicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States.
Mol Pharm. 2023 Mar 6;20(3):1670-1680. doi: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.2c00880. Epub 2023 Feb 1.
Osteosarcoma (OS) is the most common form of primary malignant bone cancer in adolescents. Over the years, OS prognosis has greatly improved due to adjuvant and neoadjuvant (preoperative) chemotherapeutic treatment, increasing the chances of successful surgery and reducing the need for limb amputation. However, chemotherapeutic treatment to treat OS is limited by off-target toxicities and requires improved localization at the tumor site. Collagen, the main constituent of bone tissue, is extensively degraded and remodeled in OS, leading to an increased availability of denatured (monomeric) collagen. Collagen hybridizing peptides (CHPs) comprise a class of peptides rationally designed to selectively bind to denatured collagen. In this work, we have conjugated CHPs as targeting moieties to water-soluble -(2-hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide (HPMA) copolymers to target OS tumors. We demonstrated increased accumulation of collagen-targeted HPMA copolymer-CHP conjugates compared to nontargeted HPMA copolymers, as well as increased retention compared to both nontargeted copolymers and CHPs, in a murine intratibial OS tumor model. Furthermore, we used microcomputed tomography analysis to evaluate the bone microarchitecture and correlated bone morphometric parameters (porosity, bone volume, and surface area) with maximum accumulation () and accumulation at 168 h postinjection () of the copolymers at the tumor. Our results provide the foundation for the use of HPMA copolymer-CHP conjugates as targeted drug delivery systems in OS tumors.
骨肉瘤(OS)是青少年中最常见的原发性恶性骨癌。多年来,由于辅助和新辅助(术前)化疗治疗,骨肉瘤的预后有了很大改善,这增加了成功手术的机会,并减少了截肢的需要。然而,用于治疗 OS 的化疗受到非靶向毒性的限制,并且需要在肿瘤部位进行改进的定位。胶原是骨组织的主要成分,在 OS 中广泛降解和重塑,导致变性(单体)胶原的可用性增加。胶原杂交肽(CHP)是一类经过合理设计的肽,可选择性地与变性胶原结合。在这项工作中,我们将 CHP 作为靶向部分缀合到水溶性 -(2-羟丙基)甲基丙烯酰胺(HPMA)共聚物上,以靶向 OS 肿瘤。我们证明了与非靶向 HPMA 共聚物相比,胶原靶向 HPMA 共聚物-CHP 缀合物在鼠胫骨内 OS 肿瘤模型中的积累增加,与非靶向共聚物和 CHP 相比,保留时间也增加。此外,我们使用微计算机断层扫描分析评估了骨微结构,并将骨形态计量学参数(孔隙率、骨体积和表面积)与共聚物在肿瘤中的最大积累()和 168 h 后积累()相关联。我们的结果为将 HPMA 共聚物-CHP 缀合物用作 OS 肿瘤的靶向药物递送系统提供了基础。
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