Xiong Hehe, Wang Rongxi, Zhang Heng, Zhang Qianyu, Qin Yatong, Du Chao, Zhang Xinyi, Ye Jinmin, Shi Changrong, Shen Huaxiang, Zhu Zhaohui, Zhou Zijian, Chen Xiaoyuan, Zhang Jingjing
State Key Laboratory of Vaccines for Infectious Diseases, Xiang An Biomedicine Laboratory & Center for Molecular Imaging and Translational Medicine, National Innovation Platform for Industry-Education Integration in Vaccine Research, School of Public Health, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361102, China.
Department of Nuclear Medicine, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Beijing Key Laboratory of Molecular Targeted Diagnosis and Therapy in Nuclear Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100730, China.
ACS Nano. 2025 Jan 28;19(3):3953-3965. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.4c18489. Epub 2025 Jan 13.
The emerging combination of chemotherapy and radionuclide therapy has been actively investigated to overcome the limitations of monotherapy and augment therapeutic efficacy. However, it remains a challenge to design a single delivery vehicle that can incorporate chemotherapeutics and radionuclides into a compact structure. Here, a chelator DOTA- or NOTA-modified Evans blue conjugated camptothecin molecule (EB-CPT) nanoprodrug was synthesized, which could self-assemble into nanoparticles due to its inherent amphiphilicity. The nanoparticles could then be effectively labeled with therapeutic radionuclide lutetium-177 (Lu) or diagnostic radionuclides gallium-68 (Ga)/copper-64 (Cu) with high radiolabeling efficiency and radiochemical stability. Impressively, a single-dose chemoradiation therapy of [Lu]Lu-DOTA-EB-CPT plus EB-CPT effectively inhibited tumor growth in HCT116 tumor-bearing mice compared to the respective individual therapeutic approach. The [Cu]Cu-NOTA-EB-CPT nanoparticles also exhibited excellent in vivo characteristics including favorable blood circulation properties and prolonged tumor retention in tumor-bearing mice. The safety, feasibility, tolerability, and biodistribution of [Ga]Ga-NOTA-EB-ss-CPT were also preliminarily characterized in a first-in-human study. This study presents a simple but robust EB-CPT radiopharmaceutical that leverages EB as an albumin binder to strike a delicate balance between enhanced tumor accumulation, safety, and diagnostic efficacy, facilitating an integrated theranostic strategy within a single molecular structure. This radionuclide-labeled EB-CPT nanomedicine presents a step toward clinical translation of the combination of chemotherapy and radiotheranostics.
为克服单一疗法的局限性并提高治疗效果,人们积极研究了化疗与放射性核素治疗相结合的新方法。然而,设计一种能将化疗药物和放射性核素整合到紧凑结构中的单一递送载体仍然是一项挑战。在此,合成了一种螯合剂DOTA或NOTA修饰的伊文思蓝共轭喜树碱分子(EB-CPT)纳米前药,由于其固有的两亲性,该纳米前药可自组装成纳米颗粒。然后,这些纳米颗粒可以用治疗性放射性核素镥-177(Lu)或诊断性放射性核素镓-68(Ga)/铜-64(Cu)进行有效标记,具有高放射性标记效率和放射化学稳定性。令人印象深刻的是,与各自单独的治疗方法相比,[Lu]Lu-DOTA-EB-CPT加EB-CPT的单剂量化学放射治疗有效抑制了荷HCT116肿瘤小鼠的肿瘤生长。[Cu]Cu-NOTA-EB-CPT纳米颗粒在荷瘤小鼠中也表现出优异的体内特性,包括良好的血液循环特性和延长的肿瘤滞留时间。[Ga]Ga-NOTA-EB-ss-CPT的安全性、可行性、耐受性和生物分布也在一项首次人体研究中进行了初步表征。本研究提出了一种简单而强大的EB-CPT放射性药物,它利用EB作为白蛋白结合剂,在增强肿瘤蓄积、安全性和诊断效果之间取得微妙平衡,促进在单一分子结构内实现综合治疗诊断策略。这种放射性核素标记的EB-CPT纳米药物朝着化疗与放射治疗诊断相结合的临床转化迈出了一步。
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