Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 10, Issue 12, Pages 9916-9928Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b16524
Keywords
oral nanoparticles; mucus and epithelial barriers; biomimetic viruslike; charge reversal; hypoglycemic effect
Funding
- National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars [81625023]
- Major Research Plan of National Natural Science Foundation of China [81690261]
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Nanoparticles (NPs) for oral delivery of peptide/protein drugs are largely limited due to the coexistence of intestinal mucus and epithelial barriers. Sequentially overcoming these two barriers is intractable for a single nanovehicle due to the requirements of different or even contradictory surface properties of NPs. To solve this dilemma, a mucus-penetrating virus-inspired biomimetic NP with charge reversal ability (P-R8-Pho NPs) was developed by densely coating poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) NPs with cationic octa-arginine (R8) peptide and specific anionic phosphoserine (Pho). The small size (81.81 nm) and viruslike neutral charged surface (-2.39 mV) of the biomimetic NPs achieved rapid mucus penetration, which was almost equal to that of the conventional PEGylated mucus penetrating nanoparticles. The hydrolysis of surface-anchored anionic Pho was achieved by intestinal alkaline phosphatase, which led to the turnover of xi potential to positive (+7.37 mV). This timely charge reversal behavior also exposed cationic R8 peptide and induced efficient cell-penetrating peptide (CPP)-mediated cellular uptake and transepithelial transport on Caco-2/E12 cocultured cell model. What's more, P-R8-Pho NPs showed excellent stability in simulated gastrointestinal conditions and enhanced absorption in intestine in vivo. Finally, oral administration of insulin-loaded P-R8-Pho NPs enabled to induce a preferable hypoglycemic effect and a 1.9-fold higher oral bioavailability was achieved compared with single CPP-modified P-R8 NPs on diabetic rats. The combinative application of biomimetic mucus penetrating strategy and enzyme-responsive charge reversal strategy in a single nanovehicle could sequentially overcome mucus and epithelial barriers, thus showing great potential for the oral peptide/protein delivery.
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