Journal
MACROMOLECULAR BIOSCIENCE
Volume 20, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/mabi.201900331
Keywords
cancer; DOX; dual-responsive; glutathione; hydrogen peroxide
Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFC1100402]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51573186, 21807097]
- National Natural Science Foundation of Jilin Province of China [20180101178JC, 20190701030GH]
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Polymer nanoparticulate drug delivery systems that respond to reactive oxygen species (ROS) and glutathione (GSH) simultaneously at biologically relevant levels hold great promise to improve the therapeutic efficacy to cancer cells with reduced side effects of chemo drugs. Herein, a novel redox dual-responsive amphiphilic block copolymer (ABP) that consists of a hydrophilic poly (ethylene oxide) block and a hydrophobic block bearing disulfide linked phenylboronic ester group as pendant is synthesized, and the DOX loaded nanoparticles (BSN-DOX) based on ABPs with varied hydrophobic block length are fabricated for DOX delivery. The self-immolative leaving reaction of phenylboronic ester triggered by extracellular ROS and the cleavage of disulfide linkages induced by intracellular GSH both lead to rapid DOX release from BSN-DOX, resulting in an on-demand DOX release. Moreover, BSN-DOX show better tumor inhibition and lower side effects in vivo compared with free drug.
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