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Fabrication of reduction-degradable micelle based on disulfide-linked graft copolymer-camptothecin conjugate for enhancing solubility and stability of camptothecin

✍ Scribed by Honglei Fan; Jin Huang; Yaping Li; Jiahui Yu; Jinghua Chen


Book ID
104088437
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
886 KB
Volume
51
Category
Article
ISSN
0032-3861

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✦ Synopsis


This research is aimed to develop a reduction-degradable micelle delivery system based on polymercamptothecin (CPT) conjugate in order to enhance the solubility and stability of CPT in aqueous media. Firstly, disulfide-linked poly(amido amine) (SS-PAA) containing alkyne groups was synthesized by Michael addition polymerization between propargyl amine and N,N 0 -bis(acryloyl) cystamine (BAC). And then, azide-functionalized CPT derivatives were conjugated with SS-PAA by click cycloaddition. Further grafting of residual alkyne groups in SS-PAA with azide-terminated poly(ethylene glycol) methyl ether (mPEG) gave mPEG-g-SS-PAA-CPT conjugate. At last, micelles with size of ca. 88 nm were fabricated from mPEG-g-SS-PAA-CPT conjugate, suggesting their passive targeting potential to tumor tissue. It was worthy of note that the drug-loaded system of mPEG-g-SS-PAA-CPT micelles improved the solubility and stability of CPT in aqueous media. Owing to the reduction degradability of disulfide linker in main chain of mPEG-g-SS-PAA-CPT, the CPT sustainably release from micelles together with the gradual cleavage of polymer in the presence of dithiothreitol (DTT) at the concentration of simulating the intracellular condition while almost no change occurred at the level of DTT corresponding to extracellular condition. Furthermore, the cell viability results showed the essential decrease of cytotoxicity to L929 cell line. These results present a strategy in designing anti-tumor CPT-polymer conjugates for highly selective delivery to tumor cells.


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