Quadruple-responsive nanoparticle-mediated targeted combination chemotherapy for metastatic breast cancer

The synergism of combination chemotherapy can only be achieved under specific drug ratios. Herein, hyaluronic acid (HA)-functionalized regenerated silk fibroin-based nanoparticles (NPs) were used to concurrently deliver curcumin (CUR) and 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) at various weight ratios (3.3 : 1, 1.6 : 1, 1.1 : 1, 1 : 1, and 1 : 1.2) to breast tumor cells. The generated HA-CUR/5-FU-NPs were found to have desirable particle sizes (around 200 nm), narrow size distributions, and negative zeta potentials (about -26.0 mV). Interestingly, these NPs showed accelerated drug release rates when they were exposed to buffers that mimicked the multi-hallmarks in the tumor microenvironment (pH/hydrogen peroxide/glutathione/hyaluronidase). The surface functionalization of NPs with HA endowed them with in vitro and in vivo breast tumor-targeting properties. Furthermore, we found that the co-loading of CUR and 5-FU in HA-functionalized NPs exhibited obvious synergistic anti-cancer, pro-apoptotic, and anti-migration effects, and the strongest synergism was found at the CUR/5-FU weight ratio of 1 : 1.2. Most importantly, mice experiments revealed that HA-CUR/5-FU-NPs (1 : 1.2) showed a superior anti-cancer activity against metastatic breast cancer compared to the single drug-loaded NPs and non-functionalized CUR/5-FU-NPs (1 : 1.2). Collectively, these results demonstrate that HA-CUR/5-FU-NPs (1 : 1.2) can be exploited as a robust nanococktail for the treatment of breast cancer and its lung metastasis.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

Nanoscale - 13(2021), 11 vom: 21. März, Seite 5765-5779

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Huang, Yamei [VerfasserIn]
Xie, Dengchao [VerfasserIn]
Gou, Shuangquan [VerfasserIn]
Canup, Brandon S B [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Guizheng [VerfasserIn]
Dai, Fangyin [VerfasserIn]
Li, Changming [VerfasserIn]
Xiao, Bo [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

Curcumin
IT942ZTH98
Journal Article

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 14.05.2021

Date Revised 14.05.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1039/d0nr08579k

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM322612373