Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 15, Issue 37, Pages 43607-43620Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c10025
Keywords
gold(III); dithiocarbamate; nanoparticles; bovine serum albumin; encapsulation; stability; cyclometalation
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Optimizing the bioavailability of metal-derived chemotherapeutic agents is crucial for successful drug development. Nanoparticle delivery strategies can improve solubility and anticancer activity of metal drugs, with potential translational benefits in the clinic.
Optimizing the bioavailability of drug candidates is crucial to successful drug development campaigns, especially for metal-derived chemotherapeutic agents. Nanoparticle delivery strategies can be deployed to overcome physicochemical limitations associated with drugs to improve bioavailability, pharmacokinetics, efficacy, and minimize toxicity. Biodegradable albumin nanoconstructs offer pragmatic solutions for drug delivery of metallodrugs with translational benefits in the clinic. In this work, we explored a logical approach to investigate and resolve the physicochemical drawbacks of gold(III) complexes with albumin nanoparticle delivery to improve solubility, enhance intracellular accumulation, circumvent premature deactivation, and enhance anticancer activity. We synthesized and characterized stable gold(III) dithiocarbamate complexes with a variable degree of cyclometalation such as phenylpyridine (C<^>N) or biphenyl (C<^>C) Au(III) framework and different alkyl chain lengths. We noted that extended alkyl chain lengths impaired the solubility of these complexes in biological media, thus adversely impacting potency. Encapsulation of these complexes in bovine serum albumin (BSA) reversed solubility limitations and improved cancer cytotoxicity by similar to 25-fold. Further speciation and mechanism of action studies demonstrate the stability of the compounds and alteration of mitochondria bioenergetics, respectively. We postulate that this nanodelivery strategy is a relevant approach for translational small-molecule gold drug delivery.
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