Journal
ACS OMEGA
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages 1082-1089Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c05671
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [22077034, 82104000]
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Stimulus-responsive albumin-based prodrugs offer a promising drug delivery strategy for targeted and controlled release in tumor microenvironments, with hypoxia-activated Mal-azoExatecan showing potential for specific tumor targeting and release control.
As an effective drug delivery strategy for traditional antitumor drugs, the stimulus-responsive albumin-based prodrugs are getting more and more attention. These prodrugs only release drugs in specific tumor microenvironments, which can prevent premature release of the drug in the circulation. Tumor hypoxia is a fundamental feature of the solid tumor microenvironment. As a hypoxia-activated linker, the 5-position branched linker of 1-methyl-2-nitro-5-hydroxymethylimidazole can be a trigger for albumin-based prodrugs. In this study, we report the synthesis and biological evaluation of the hypoxia-activated albumin-binding prodrug Mal-azoExatecan. After intravenous administration, the maleimide on the side chain can rapidly bind to endogenous albumin, enabling the prodrugs to accumulate in tumors, where tumor-associated hypoxia microenvironments trigger the selective release of Exatecan. The 5-position branched linker of 1-methyl-2-nitro-5-hydroxymethylimidazole as a cleavable linker has high plasma stability and does not cause Exatecan release from HSA-azo-Exatecan during circulation in vivo, avoiding systemic side effects caused by Exatecan.
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