Supramolecular Nanostructures Formed by Anticancer Drug Assembly

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• 作者：Andrew G. Cheetham ; Pengcheng Zhang ; Yi-an Lin ; Lye Lin Lock ; Honggang Cui
• 刊名：The Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：February 27, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：135
• 期：8
• 页码：2907-2910
• 全文大小：347K
• 年卷期：v.135,no.8(February 27, 2013)
• ISSN：1520-5126

文摘

We report here a supramolecular strategy to directly assemble the small molecular hydrophobic anticancer drug camptothecin (CPT) into discrete, stable, well-defined nanostructures with a high and quantitative drug loading. Depending on the number of CPTs in the molecular design, the resulting nanostructures can be either nanofibers or nanotubes, and have a fixed CPT loading content ranging from 23% to 38%. We found that formation of nanostructures provides protection for both the CPT drug and the biodegradable linker from the external environment and thus offers a mechanism for controlled release of CPT. Under tumor-relevant conditions, these drug nanostructures can release the bioactive form of CPT and show in vitro efficacy against a number of cancer cell lines. This strategy can be extended to construct nanostructures of other types of anticancer drugs and thus presents new opportunities for the development of self-delivering drugs for cancer therapeutics.