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Reactive oxygen species-activatable self-amplifying Watson-Crick base pairing-inspired supramolecular nanoprodrug for tumor-specific therapy.
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Biomaterials [Biomaterials] 2021 Oct; Vol. 277, pp. 121128. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Sep 11. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Intratumoral upregulated reactive oxygen species (ROS) has been extensively exploited as exclusive stimulus to activate drug release for tumor-specific therapy. However, insufficient endogenous ROS and tumor heterogeneity severely restrict clinical translation of current ROS-responsive drug delivery systems. Herein, a tailored ROS-activatable self-amplifying supramolecular nanoprodrug was developed for reinforced ROS-responsiveness and highly selective antitumor therapy. A novel ROS-cleavable CA-based thioacetal linker CASOH was synthesized with ROS generator cinnamaldehyde (CA) incorporated into its molecular structure, to skillfully realize self-amplifying positive feedback loop of "ROS-activated CA release with CA-induced ROS regeneration". CASOH was modified with a cytosine analogue gemcitabine (GEM) to obtain ROS-activatable self-immolative prodrug CAG, which could be selectively activated in tumor cells and further achieve self-boosting "snowballing" activation via ROS compensation, while keep inactive in normal cells. Through Watson-Crick nucleobase pairing (G≡C)-like hydrogen bonds, CAG efficiently crosslinked with a matched guanine-rich acyclovir-modified hyaluronic acid conjugate HA-ACV, to self-assemble into pH/ROS dual-responsive supramolecular nanoprodrug HCAG. With high stability, beneficial tumor targeting capacity and pH/ROS-responsiveness, HCAG nanoformulation exhibited remarkable in vivo antitumor efficacy with minimal systemic toxicity. Based on unique tumor-specific self-amplifying prodrug activation and Watson-Crick base pairing-inspired supramolecular self-assembly, this study provides an inspirational strategy of exploiting novel ROS-responsive nanoplatform with reinforced responsiveness and specificity for future clinical translation.<br /> (Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1878-5905
- Volume :
- 277
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Biomaterials
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 34537502
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biomaterials.2021.121128