RESUMO
Nowadays, cell membrane-targeted therapy, which owns high antitumor efficacy by avoiding cell barriers, has received great attention. Here, a cell membrane-targeted self-delivery theranostic chimeric peptide CMP-PpIX is designed for simultaneously targeted photodynamic therapy (PDT) of tumor and real-time therapeutic feedback. Self-assembled CMP-PpIX nanoparticles can effectively accumulate in tumor by enhanced permeability and retention effect without additional vector. And this chimeric peptide CMP-PpIX has low background fluorescence, which is due to its relatively high intramolecular Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) quenching efficiency between 5(6)-carboxyfluorescein (FAM) and 4-(dimethylaminoazo)-benzene-4-carboxylic acid (Dabcyl). More importantly, CMP-PpIX can be anchored on the tumor cell membrane for more than 8 h. Under irradiation, reactive oxygen species produced by CMP-PpIX directly damage cell membrane and rapidly induce apoptosis, which significantly improve the efficacy of PDT in vitro and in vivo. Then, peptide sequence Asp-Glu-Val-Asp (DEVD) is subsequently cleaved by activated caspase-3 and activated caspase-7, which separates the FAM and Dabcyl and terminates the FRET process. Therefore, fluorescence of FAM is recovered to monitor the expression of activated caspase-3 in vitro and in vivo to feedback real-time PDT therapeutic efficacy. In general, a novel cell membrane-targeted self-delivery theranostic chimeric peptide offers new promise for effective imaging-guided PDT.
Assuntos
Membrana Celular/metabolismo , Nanopartículas/química , Peptídeos/química , Fármacos Fotossensibilizantes/química , Animais , Apoptose/efeitos dos fármacos , Linhagem Celular Tumoral , Membrana Celular/química , Membrana Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Feminino , Transferência Ressonante de Energia de Fluorescência , Corantes Fluorescentes/química , Humanos , Luz , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos BALB C , Microscopia Confocal , Nanopartículas/metabolismo , Neoplasias/tratamento farmacológico , Neoplasias/patologia , Peptídeos/metabolismo , Fotoquimioterapia , Fármacos Fotossensibilizantes/metabolismo , Fármacos Fotossensibilizantes/farmacologia , Fármacos Fotossensibilizantes/uso terapêutico , Protoporfirinas/química , Protoporfirinas/metabolismo , Espécies Reativas de Oxigênio/metabolismo , Ensaios Antitumorais Modelo de XenoenxertoRESUMO
A series of new 1H-benzo[d]imidazole derivatives of dehydroabietic acid were designed and synthesized as potent antitumor agents. Structures of the target molecules were characterized using MS, IR, 1H NMR, 13C NMR and elemental analyses. In the in vitro cytotoxic assay, most compounds showed significant cytotoxic activities against two hepatocarcinoma cells (SMMC-7721 and HepG2) and reduced cytotoxicity against noncancerous human hepatocyte (LO2). Among them, compound 7b exhibited the best cytotoxicity against SMMC-7721 cells (IC50: 0.36±0.13µM), while 7e was most potent to HepG2 cells (IC50: 0.12±0.03µM). The cell cycle analysis indicated that compound 7b caused cell cycle arrest of SMMC-7721 cells at G2/M phase. Further, compound 7b also induced the apoptosis of SMMC-7721 cells in Annexin V-APC/7-AAD binding assay.
