期刊
MOLECULAR PHARMACEUTICS
卷 16, 期 12, 页码 4852-4866出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.9b00737
关键词
conjugated polymer nanoparticles; PCPDTBT; chemodynamic therapy; CDT; iron; ferroptosis; ROS; cell viability; Fenton reaction; metastatic melanoma; EDNRB; EDNRA; endothelin-3; EDN3
资金
- Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MOHESR) of Iraq
We report the development of novel tumor-targeted conjugated polymer nanoparticles (CPNPs) carrying iron for chemodynamic therapy (CDT). Tumor cell killing proceeds through ferroptosis, a reactive oxygen species (ROS) mechanism that is not dependent on external activation by, for example, light, as is the case in photodynamic therapy (PDT). The ferroptosis mechanism is also not heavily reliant on oxygen availability and is, therefore, promising for the treatment of hypoxic tumors. In this work, we apply this development to the case study of melanoma, a difficult to treat cancer in advanced stages due to resistance to chemotherapy. The iron-carrying CPNPs reported here are targeted to endothelin-B receptors (EDNRB) through endothelin-3 surface moieties (EDN3-CPNPs). Our results show excellent targeting to tumor cells that overexpress EDNRB, specifically for melanoma and bladder tumor cells. In these cases, efficient cell killing, over 80% at higher doses, was found. Conversely, tumor cells not targeted by the EDN3-CPNPs show little effects of CDT, with tumor cell death under 20% in most cases. The outcomes of our work demonstrate that EDN3-CPNPs enable ferroptosis-assisted CDT and present a new therapeutic avenue for tumor treatment.
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