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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICS AND BIOPHARMACEUTICS
卷 84, 期 3, 页码 517-525出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpb.2012.12.021
关键词
Doxorubicin; Liposomes; Octa-arginine; Drug delivery; Apoptosis
资金
- NIH [RO1 CA121838, RO1 CA 128486]
Doxorubicin-loaded PEGylated liposomes (commercially available as DOXIL (R) or Lipodox (R)) were surface functionalized with a cell-penetrating peptide, octa-arginine (R8). For this purpose, R8-peptide was conjugated to the polyethylene glycol-dioleoyl phosphatidylethanolamine (PEG-DOPE) amphiphilic co-polymer. The resultant R8-PEG-PE conjugate was introduced into the lipid bilayer of liposomes at 2 mol% of total lipid amount via spontaneous micelle-transfer technique. The liposomal modification did not alter the particle size distribution, as measured by Particle Size Analyzer and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). However, surface-associated cationic peptide increased zeta potential of the modified liposomes. R8-functionalized liposomes (R8-Dox-L) markedly increased the intracellular and intratumoral delivery of doxorubicin as measured by flow cytometry and visualizing by confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) compared to unmodified Doxorubicin-loaded PEGylated liposomes (Dox-L). R8-Dox-L delivered loaded Doxorubicin to the nucleus, being released from the endosomes at higher efficiency compared to unmodified liposomes, which had marked entrapment in the endosomes at tested time point of 1 h. The significantly higher accumulation of loaded drug to its site of action for R8-Dox-L resulted in improved cytotoxic activity in vitro (cell viability of 58.5 +/- 7% for R8-Dox-L compared to 90.6 +/- 2% for Dox-L at Dox dose of 50 mu g/mL for 4 h followed by 24 h incubation) and enhanced suppression of tumor growth (348 +/- 53 mm(3) for R8-Dox-L, compared to 504 +/- 54 mm(3) for Dox-L treatment) in vivo compared to Dox-L. R8-modification has the potential for broadening the therapeutic window of pegylated liposomal doxorubicin treatment, which could lead to lower non-specific toxicity. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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