Elucidating the cellular uptake mechanisms of heptamethine cyanine dye analogues for their use as an anticancer drug-carrier molecule for the treatment of glioblastoma

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The development of chemotherapies for glioblastoma is hindered by their limited bioavailability and toxicity on normal brain function. To overcome these limitations, we investigated the structure-dependent activity of heptamethine cyanine dyes (HMCD), a group of tumour-specific and BBB permeable near-infrared fluorescent dyes, in both commercial (U87MG) and patient-derived GBM cell lines. HMCD analogues with strongly ionisable sulphonic acid groups were not taken up by patient-derived GBM cells, but were taken up by the U87MG cell line. HMCD uptake relies on a combination of transporter uptake through organic anion-transporting polypeptides (OATPs) and endocytosis into GBM cells. The uptake of HMCDs was not affected by p-glycoprotein efflux in GBM cells. Finally, we demonstrate structure-dependent cytotoxic activity at high concentrations (EC50 : 1-100 μM), likely due to mitochondrial damage-induced apoptosis. An in vivo orthotopic glioblastoma model highlights tumour-specific accumulation of our lead HMCD, MHI-148, for up to 7 days following a single intraperitoneal injection. These studies suggest that strongly ionisable groups like sulphonic acids hamper the cellular uptake of HMCDs in patient-derived GBM cell lines, highlighting cell line-specific differences in HMCD uptake. We envisage these findings will help in the design and structural modifications of HMCDs for drug-delivery applications for glioblastoma.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:101

Enthalten in:

Chemical biology & drug design - 101(2023), 3 vom: 01. März, Seite 696-716

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cooper, Elizabeth [VerfasserIn]
Choi, Peter J [VerfasserIn]
Hwang, Kihwan [VerfasserIn]
Nam, Kyung M [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Chae-Yong [VerfasserIn]
Shaban, Tina [VerfasserIn]
Schweder, Patrick [VerfasserIn]
Mee, Edward [VerfasserIn]
Correia, Jason [VerfasserIn]
Turner, Clinton [VerfasserIn]
Faull, Richard L M [VerfasserIn]
Denny, William A [VerfasserIn]
Noguchi, Katsuya [VerfasserIn]
Dragunow, Mike [VerfasserIn]
Jose, Jiney [VerfasserIn]
Park, Thomas I-H [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antineoplastic Agents
Brain tumour
Drug-delivery
Fluorescent Dyes
Glioblastoma
HMCD
Heptamethine cyanine dye
Journal Article
Orthotopic GBM mouse model
Patient-derived
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 15.02.2023

Date Revised 19.03.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/cbdd.14171

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM348376227