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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 136, Issue 6, Pages 2546-2554Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja411811w
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- Singapore National Research Foundation [R-279-000-390-281]
- Ministry of Defense [R279-000-340-232]
- Singapore-MIT Alliance of Research and Technology (SMART)
- JCO [IMRE/12-8P1103]
- Research Grants Council of Hong Kong [HKUST2/CRF/10, N_HKUST620/11]
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Targeted drug delivery to: tumor cells with minimized side effects and real-time in situ monitoring of drug efficacy is highly desirable for personalized medicine. In this work, we report the synthesis and biological evaluation of a chemotherapeutic Pt(IV) prodrug whose two axial positions are functionalized with a cyclic arginine-glycine-aspartic acid (cRGD) tripeptide for targeting integrin alpha(v)beta(3) overexpressed cancer cells and an apoptosis sensor which is composed of tetraphenylsilole (TPS) fluorophore with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) characteristics and a caspase-3 enzyme specific Asp-Glu-Val-Asp (DEVD) peptide. The targeted Pt(IV) prodrug can selectively bind to alpha(v)beta(3) integrin overexpressed cancer cells to facilitate cellular uptake. In addition, the Pt(IV) prodrug can be reduced to active Pt(II) drug in cells and release the apoptosis sensor TPS-DEVD simultaneously. The reduced Pt(II) drug can induce the cell apoptosis and activate caspase-3 enzyme to cleave the DEVD peptide sequence. Due to free rotation of the phenylene rings, TPS-DEVD is nonemissive in aqueous media. The specific cleavage of DEVD by caspase-3 generates the hydrophobic TPS residue, which tends to aggregate, resulting in restriction of intramolecular rotations of the phenyl rings and ultimately leading to fluorescence enhancement. Such noninvasive and real-time imaging of drug-induced apoptosis in situ can be used as an indicator for early evaluation of the therapeutic responses of a specific anticancer drug.
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