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BIOMACROMOLECULES
Volume 8, Issue 10, Pages 2986-2989Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bm700727g
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Our previous studies have demonstrated the efficacy of generation 5 poly(amidoamine) dendrimers; (G5-PAMAM) as a platform for the targeted delivery of chemotherapeutics. However, anticancer therapy can be subverted by anti-apoptotic changes in cancer cells. Bcl-2 and several of its peptides are commonly overexpressed in a number of cancers. A means to reverse this anti-apoptotic mechanism is to expose the cells to BH3 peptide, which has a homology to the anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 protein. This cannot be done indiscriminately because it can induce apoptosis in normal cells. In order to specifically target BH3 peptides to cancer cells, we synthesized a trifunctional, G5-PAMAM-based nanodevice to which folic acid was conjugated as a targeting agent, along with fluorescein isothiocyanate as the reporter agent and BH3 peptides that were used to induce apoptosis. The results show, for the first time, the therapeutic potential of targeted BH3 peptides as a means of inducing apoptosis by interfering with anti-apoptotic proteins within specific cells.
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