Mallick Argha Mario, Biswas Abhijit, Mishra Sukumar, Jadhav Sonali, Chakraborty Kasturee, Tripathi Archana, Mukherjee Arnab, Roy Rituparna Sinha
Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata Mohanpur 741246 India
Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata Mohanpur 741246 India.
Chem Sci. 2023 Jul 3;14(29):7842-7866. doi: 10.1039/d3sc01071f. eCollection 2023 Jul 26.
RNA interference based therapeutic gene silencing is an emerging platform for managing highly metastatic breast cancer. Cytosolic delivery of functional siRNA remains the key obstacle for efficient RNAi therapy. To overcome the challenges of siRNA delivery, we have engineered a vitamin E-tethered, short, optimum protease stabilized facial lipopeptide based non-immunogenic, biocompatible siRNA transporter to facilitate the clinical translation in future. Our designed lipopeptide has an Arginine-Sarcosine-Arginine segment for providing optimum protease-stability, minimizing adjacent arginine-arginine repulsion and reducing intermolecular aggregation and α-tocopherol as the lipidic moiety for facilitating cellular permeabilization. Interestingly, our designed non-immunogenic siRNA transporter has exhibited significantly better long term transfection efficiency than HiPerFect and can transfect hard to transfect primary cell line, HUVEC. Our engineered siRNA therapeutics demonstrated high efficacy in managing metastasis against triple negative breast cancer by disrupting the crosstalk of endothelial cells and MDA-MB-231 and reduced stemness and metastatic markers, as evidenced by downregulating critical oncogenic pathways. Our study aimed at silencing Notch1 signalling to achieve "multi-targeted" therapy with a single putative molecular medicine. We have further developed mechanistically rational combination therapy combining Notch1 silencing with a repurposed drug m-TOR inhibitor, metformin, which demonstrated synergistic interaction and enhanced antitumor efficacy against cancer metastasis.
基于RNA干扰的治疗性基因沉默是一种用于治疗高转移性乳腺癌的新兴平台。功能性小干扰RNA(siRNA)的胞质递送仍然是高效RNA干扰疗法的关键障碍。为了克服siRNA递送的挑战,我们设计了一种基于维生素E连接的、短的、经最佳蛋白酶稳定化的表面脂肽的非免疫原性、生物相容性siRNA转运体,以促进未来的临床转化。我们设计的脂肽含有一个精氨酸-肌氨酸-精氨酸片段,用于提供最佳的蛋白酶稳定性,最小化相邻精氨酸-精氨酸之间的排斥,减少分子间聚集,以及α-生育酚作为脂质部分以促进细胞通透化。有趣的是,我们设计的非免疫原性siRNA转运体表现出比HiPerFect显著更好的长期转染效率,并且能够转染难以转染的原代细胞系——人脐静脉内皮细胞(HUVEC)。我们设计的siRNA疗法通过破坏内皮细胞与MDA-MB-231之间的串扰,在治疗三阴性乳腺癌转移方面显示出高效性,并降低了干性和转移标记物,这通过下调关键致癌途径得到证明。我们的研究旨在沉默Notch1信号通路,以实现用一种单一的推定分子药物进行“多靶点”治疗。我们进一步开发了一种机制合理的联合疗法,将Notch1沉默与一种重新利用的药物m-TOR抑制剂二甲双胍相结合,该联合疗法显示出协同相互作用,并增强了对癌症转移的抗肿瘤疗效。
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