| Literature DB >> 22417133 |
Daniel J Callahan1, Wenge Liu, Xinghai Li, Matthew R Dreher, Wafa Hassouneh, Minkyu Kim, Piotr Marszalek, Ashutosh Chilkoti.
Abstract
To address the limited tumor penetration of nanoparticle drug delivery vehicles, we report the first pH-responsive polypeptide micelle that dissociates at the low extracellular pH of solid tumors. This histidine-rich elastin-like polypeptide block copolymer self-assembles at 37 °C into spherical micelles that are stabilized by Zn(2+) and are disrupted as the pH drops from 7.4 to 6.4. These pH-sensitive micelles demonstrate better in vivo penetration and distribution in tumors than a pH-insensitive control.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22417133 PMCID: PMC3474318 DOI: 10.1021/nl300630c
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nano Lett ISSN: 1530-6984 Impact factor: 11.189