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Baoqing Liu1, Wenzhi Yang2, Chengchuan Che1, Jinfeng Liu1, Meiru Si1, Zhijin Gong1, Ruixia Gao1, Ge Yang1.
Abstract
A novel method for the preparation of antitumor drug vehicles has been optimized. Biological materials of chitosan oligosaccharide (CO) and γ-polyglutamic acid (γ-PGA) have previously been employed as modifiers to covalently modify graphene oxide (GO), which in turn loaded doxorubicin (DOX) to obtain a nano drug delivery systems of graphene oxide based composites (GO-CO-γ-PGA-DOX). The system was not equipped with the ability of initiative targeting, thus resulting into toxicity and side effects on normal tissues or organs. In order to further improve the targeting property of the system, the nucleic acid aptamer NH2 -AS1411 (APT) of targeted nucleolin (C23) was used to conjugate on GO-CO-γ-PGA to yield the targeted nano drug delivery system APT-GO-CO-γ-PGA. The structure, composition, dispersion, particle size and morphology properties of the synthesized complex have been studied using multiple characterization methods. Drug loading and release profile data showed that APT-GO-CO-γ-PGA is provided with high drug loading capacity and is capable of controlled and sustained release of DOX. Cell experimental results indicated that since C23 was overexpressed on the surface of Hela cells but not on the surface of Beas-2B cells, APT-GO-CO-γ-PGA-DOX can target Hela cells and make increase toxicity to Hela cells than Beas-2B cells, and the IC50 value of APT-GO-CO-γ-PGA-DOX was 3.23±0.04 μg/mL. All results proved that APT-GO-CO-γ-PGA can deliver antitumor drugs in a targeted manner, and achieve the effect of reducing poison, which indicated that the targeted carrier exhibits a broad application prospect in the field of biomedicine.Entities:
Keywords: NH2-AS1411; Targeted nano drug delivery systems; graphene oxide; nucleolin
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Year: 2021 PMID: 33605540 PMCID: PMC8015732 DOI: 10.1002/open.202000226
Source DB: PubMed Journal: ChemistryOpen ISSN: 2191-1363 Impact factor: 2.630
Scheme 1The Preparation Diagrammatic Sketch of APT‐GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA and APT‐GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA‐DOX.
Figure 1(a) FTIR spectra of GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA and APT‐GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA. (b) XPS wide spectrum of APT‐GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA. (c) UV‐Vis absorption spectra of NH2‐AS1411, GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA and APT‐GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA. (d) Zeta potential of GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA and APT‐GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA. (e) XRD spectra of GO, GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA and APT‐GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA. (f) DLS spectra of GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA and APT‐GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA. (g) TEM image of GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA. (h) TEM image of APT‐GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA.
Figure 2(a) The loading capacity of APT‐GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA and GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA‐DOX. (b) Cumulative release rate curves of APT‐GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA‐DOX and GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA‐DOX under different pH. (Values represent the means ±SD, the experiment was repeated three times).
Figure 3Flow cyctometry analyses of DOX uptake in (a) Beas‐2B cells and (b) Hela cells treated with DOX, GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA‐DOX and APT‐GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA‐DOX.
Figure 4The drug distribution in Beas‐2B cells incubated with (a) GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA‐DOX and (b) APT‐GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA‐DOX for 6 h. The drug distribution in Hela cells incubated with (c) GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA‐DOX and (d) APT‐GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA‐DOX for 6 h.
Figure 5(a) The effect of different concentration of unloaded APT‐GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA against Hela and Beas‐2B cells viability. (b) The effect of different concentration of DOX, GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA‐DOX and APT‐GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA‐DOX against Beas‐2B cells viability. (c) The effect of different concentration of DOX, GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA‐DOX and APT‐GO‐CO‐γ‐PGA‐DOX against Hela cells viability. (Values represent the means ±SD, the experiment was repeated three times)