State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.
Molecules. 2024 Aug 13;29(16):3837. doi: 10.3390/molecules29163837.
The diselenide bond has attracted intense interest for drug delivery systems (DDSs) for tumor chemotherapy, owing to it possessing higher redox sensitivity than the disulfide one. Various redox-responsive diselenide-containing carriers have been developed for chemotherapeutics delivery. However, the premature drug leakage from these DDSs was significant enough to cause toxic side effects on normal cells. Here, a pH/redox co-triggered degradable polyprodrug was designed as a drug self-delivery system (DSDS) by incorporating drug molecules as structural units in the polymer main chains, using a facile one-pot two-step approach. The proposed PDOX could only degrade and release drugs by breaking both the neighboring acid-labile acylhydrazone and the redox-cleavable diselenide conjugations in the drug's structural units, triggered by the higher acidity and glutathione (GSH) or reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels in the tumor cells. Therefore, a slow solubility-controlled drug release was achieved for tumor-specific chemotherapy, indicating promising potential as a safe and efficient long-acting DSDS for future tumor treatment.
二硒键因其具有比二硫键更高的氧化还原敏感性,因此引起了人们对用于肿瘤化疗的药物传递系统(DDS)的浓厚兴趣。已经开发了各种氧化还原响应性含二硒键的载体来传递化疗药物。然而,这些 DDS 中药物过早泄漏的问题非常严重,足以对正常细胞造成毒性副作用。在这里,通过将药物分子作为结构单元纳入聚合物主链,采用简便的一锅两步法,设计了一种 pH/氧化还原双重触发的可降解多前药作为药物自传递系统(DSDS)。所提出的 PDOX 只能通过在药物结构单元中破坏相邻的酸不稳定酰腙和氧化还原可裂解的二硒键键合来降解和释放药物,这是由肿瘤细胞中更高的酸度和谷胱甘肽(GSH)或活性氧(ROS)水平触发的。因此,实现了针对肿瘤的特异性化疗的缓慢溶出控制药物释放,表明其作为用于未来肿瘤治疗的安全有效的长效 DSDS 具有广阔的应用前景。
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