Journal
BIOMATERIALS
Volume 276, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2021.121036
Keywords
Polymeric nanoparticle; ROS response; miRNA; Glioblastoma; Combinatorial therapy
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [U1804139, 52073079, 31800841, 32071388]
- National Key Technologies R&D Program of China [2018YFA0209800]
- Key Research Program in Colleges and Universities of Henan Province [19zx006]
- Australian Endeavour Fellowship [69172018]
- Mason Foundation National Medical Program [MAS2017F034]
- National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Dementia Fellowship [GNT1111611]
- NHMRC Project Grant [GNT1166024]
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This study developed a targeted polymeric nanoparticle combining polymeric nanotechnology with miRNA regulation technology to effectively treat GBM. The nanoparticle can protect miRNA from enzyme degradation in the blood and enable targeted delivery to GBM tissue. Co-delivery of anti-miR-21 and miR-124 can regulate tumor cell signaling pathways, achieving combinatorial GBM therapy.
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and fatal form of malignant brain tumor. Despite intensive effort, there is still no effective GBM treatment. Therefore, novel and more effective GBM therapeutic approaches are highly desired. In this study, we combined polymeric nanotechnology with microRNA (miRNA) regulation technology to develop a targeted polymeric nanoparticle to co-deliver anti-miR-21 and miR-124 into the brain to effectively treat GBM. The polymeric nanoparticle decorated with Angiopep-2 peptide not only can encapsulate miRNA via triple-interaction (electrostatic, hydrogen bond and hydrophobic bonding) to protect miRNA against enzyme degradation in the blood, but also is capable of crossing blood brain barrier (BBB) and allowing targeted delivery of miRNAs to GBM tissue due to the dual-targeting function of Angiopep-2. Moreover, the co-delivered anti-miR21 and miR-124 simultaneously regulated the mutant RAS/PI3K/PTEN/AKT signaling pathway in tumor cells, consequently achieving combinatorial GBM therapy. This combinatorial effect was confirmed by our results showing that these miRNA nanomedicines can effectively reduce tumor cell proliferation, migration and invasion as well as reducing tumor angiogenesis. Consequently, effective suppression of tumor growth and significantly improved medium survival time are observed when these miRNA nanomedicines were assessed in an orthotopic GBM xenograft model. This work indicated that our new polymeric nanoparticles successfully mediate inhibition of miR-21 and miR-124 supplementation to significantly reduce tumorigenesis, and may have strong potential in GBM therapy.
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