化学
两亲性
喜树碱
药物输送
毒品携带者
细胞毒性
小分子
药品
脂质体
姜黄素
小泡
阿霉素
肽
组合化学
药理学
生物化学
体外
膜
有机化学
共聚物
聚合物
医学
化疗
外科
作者
Jialin Chen,Wujun Wang,Yue Wang,Xiushuang Yuan,Chengzhi He,Pengfei Pei,Shengdi Su,Wei Zhao,Shi‐Zhong Luo,Long Chen
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.ejpb.2022.09.005
摘要
Water insolubility poses a significant challenge in the clinical applications of many small molecule drugs. To improve the drug delivery efficiency, two branched amphiphilic peptides (BAPs) were designed in a computer-aided manner, for drug-loading through peptide self-assembling. The structures of the two BAPs, bis(LVFFA)-K-RGD (PepV-1) and bis(FHF)-K-RGD (PepV-2), were inspired by phospholipids, containing the RGD sequence as the hydrophilic head and two hydrophobic sequences as the hydrophobic tails. PepV-1 could self-assemble into nano-fibrils with a hydrophobic core and the RGD moiety on the surface. Its drug-loading efficiency (DE%) of three small molecule anticancer drugs (doxorubicin, camptothecin and curcumin) ranged from 9.90% to 11.74%, and entrapment efficiency (EE%) ranged from 37.30% to 43.00%. Pep-V2 could self-assemble into bilayer delimited nano-vesicles. The DE% of PepV-2 for these drugs ranged from 15.87% to 18.55%, and the EE% ranged from 60.45% to 73.23%. Both BAP carriers could prolong the release of the small molecule drugs, and the PepV-2 vesicles also showed pH-triggered increase of drug release due to the histidine residues. Bothe BAP carriers could increase the cytotoxicity against cancer cells, which might be due to the targeting on the cancer overexpressed integrins. The designed BAP carriers represent promising functional drug carriers for targeted drug delivery, and will be useful for improving the clinical use of small molecule drugs, especially for those with poor water solubility.
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