Issue 21, 2019

Fabrication of biocleavable crosslinked polyprodrug vesicles via reversible donor–acceptor interactions for enhanced anticancer drug delivery

Abstract

Incorporation of various dynamic stimuli-responsive bonds to nanocarriers has been repeatedly highlighted to provide an elegant solution to the tradeoff between extracellular stability and intracellular high therapeutic efficiency; however, most of the developed systems still suffer from drug leakage-associated side effects due to insufficient stability and unsatisfactory therapeutic efficiency attributed to low drug loading capacity. To further address these critical issues, herein we reported a coordination-driven formation of biocleavable crosslinked polyprodrug vesicles (CPV) based on the reversible coordination interactions between the electron acceptor-containing polyprodrug and electron donor-based crosslinker, 1,6-hexanediamine. The resulting CPV exhibited a high drug loading content of 34.8%, and simultaneously enhanced extracellular micelle stability and promoted intracellular redox-triggered decrosslinking and drug release. More importantly, a comparison study further revealed that the CPV outperformed the noncrosslinked analogues in terms of greater stability, faster redox-triggered decrosslinking and drug release, a more compact structure with a smaller size toward higher cellular uptake, and greater in vitro cytotoxicity. This work thus developed a robust reversible crosslinking strategy to address high stability vs. sufficient therapeutic efficiency dilemma of polyprodrug-based nanocarriers.

Graphical abstract: Fabrication of biocleavable crosslinked polyprodrug vesicles via reversible donor–acceptor interactions for enhanced anticancer drug delivery

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
14 Mar 2019
Accepted
24 Apr 2019
First published
24 Apr 2019

Polym. Chem., 2019,10, 2666-2673

Fabrication of biocleavable crosslinked polyprodrug vesicles via reversible donor–acceptor interactions for enhanced anticancer drug delivery

X. Zhang, Q. Hua, P. Meng, M. Wang, Y. Wang, L. Sun, L. Ma, B. Wang, C. Yu and H. Wei, Polym. Chem., 2019, 10, 2666 DOI: 10.1039/C9PY00404A

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