Polymer Nanoparticles Modified with Photo- and pH-Dual-Responsive Polypeptides for Enhanced and Targeted Cancer Therapy

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• 作者：Yang Yang ; Xiangyang Xie ; Yanfang Yang ; Zhiping Li ; Fanglin Yu ; Wei Gong ; Ying Li ; Hui Zhang ; Zhiyuan Wang ; Xingguo Mei
• 刊名：Molecular Pharmaceutics
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：May 2, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：13
• 期：5
• 页码：1508-1519
• 全文大小：709K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1543-8392

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The cationic nature of cell penetrating peptides (CPPs) and their absence of cell selectivity restrains their applications in vivo. In this work, polymer nanoparticles (NPs) modified with photo- and pH-responsive polypeptides (PPPs) were successfully developed and respond to near-infrared (NIR) light illumination at the tumor site and a lowered tumor extracellular pH (pHe). In PPPs, the internalization function of CPPs (positively charged) is quenched by a pH-sensitive inhibitory peptide (negatively charged), which is linked via a photocleavable group. Small interfering RNA (siRNA) was loaded into NPs by a double-emulsion technique. In vivo experiments included siRNA loading, cellular uptake, cell apoptosis, siRNA transfection, tumor targeting delivery, and the in vivo antitumor efficacy. Results showed that the prepared PPP-NPs could selectively accumulate at the tumor sites and internalized into the tumor cells by the NIR light illumination and the lowered pHe at the tumor site. These studies demonstrated that PPP-NPs are a promising carrier for future tumor gene delivery.