Journal
BIOMATERIALS
Volume 113, Issue -, Pages 1-17Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2016.10.033
Keywords
Neovasculature; Circulating tumor cells; Dual-targeting nanoparticles; Combination therapy
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81673019, 81573382, 61227017]
- Shanghai Science and Technology Committee [15540723700]
- 'Shu Guang' project - Shanghai Municipal Education Commission
- Shanghai Education Development Foundation [15SG14]
- National Major Scientific Research Program of China [2011CB910404, 2012CB966801]
- National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars [61425006]
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Antiangiogenesis therapy has been served as a potent cancer treatment strategy for decades, yet disrupting neovasculature would provoke tumor cells into invasive growth and result in distal metastasis. The basic cause of cancer metastasis can be traced down to the presence of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) which detach from primary tumor site and, act as 'seeds'. Epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM) is a potential biomarker for selective capture of epithelium-derived CTCs. Here, we integrated tumor neovessles-targetable ligands K237 peptide with Ep23 aptamer against EpCAM into a single drug-loaded nanoplatform using paclitaxel (PTX) as, the model drug, aiming at damaging the primary tumor and neutralizing CTCs simultaneously to achieve a synergistic anti-tumor therapeutic effect. Enhanced cellular uptake, cell apoptosis-induction and cell-viability inhibition efficiency of the peptide and aptamer dual-functionalized nanoparticles (dTNP) were observed in both human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) and 4T1 cells in vitro. Using cone-and-plate viscometer to create venous flow velocity, dTNP was also found to be able to capture CTCs under shear stress. The CTC-targeting and neutralization effect of dTNP in bloodstream and 4T1-GFP cell-derived lung metastasis mice model was confirmed via in vivo flow cytometry (IVFC), intravital imaging and confocal microscopy analysis. As a result, the orthotropic breast tumor-bearing mice administrated with. PTX-loaded dTNP exhibited the optimal therapeutic effect. Taken together, the findings here provided direct evidence that the tumor neovasculature and CTCs dual-targeting drug delivery system could provide a novel modality for the treatment of highly-invasive breast cancer. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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