1. Photoinduced PEG deshielding from ROS-sensitive linkage-bridged block copolymer-based nanocarriers for on-demand drug delivery.
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Li, Jie, Sun, Chunyang, Tao, Wei, Cao, Ziyang, Qian, Haisheng, Yang, Xianzhu, and Wang, Jun
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POLYETHYLENE glycol , *NANOCARRIERS , *DRUG delivery systems , *BLOCK copolymers , *DESHIELDING (Spectroscopy) , *REACTIVE oxygen species , *PHOTOCHEMISTRY - Abstract
Controlling poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) shielding/deshielding at the desired site of action exhibits great advantages for nanocarrier-based on-demand drug delivery in vivo . However, the current PEG deshielding strategies were mainly designed for anticancer drug delivery; even so, their applications are also limited by tumor heterogeneity. As a proof-of-concept, we explored a photoinduced PEG deshielding nanocarrier TK-NP Ce6&PTX to circumvent the aforementioned challenge. The TK-NP Ce6&PTX encapsulating chlorin e6 (Ce6) and paclitaxel (PTX) was self-assembled from an innovative thioketal (TK) linkage-bridged diblock copolymer of PEG with poly(d, l -lactic acid) (PEG- TK -PLA). We demonstrated that the high PEGylation of TK-NP Ce6&PTX in blood helps the nanocarrier efficiently avoid rapid clearance and consequently prolongs its circulation time. At the desired site (tumor), 660-nm red light irradiation led to ROS generation in situ , which readily cleaved the TK linkage, resulting in PEG deshielding. Such photoinduced PEG deshielding at the desired site significantly enhances the cellular uptake of the nanocarriers, achieving on-demand drug delivery and superior therapeutic efficacy. More importantly, this strategy of photoinducing PEG deshielding of nanocarriers could potentially extend to a variety of therapeutic agents beyond anticancer drugs for on-demand delivery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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