Mitocytosis mediated by an enzyme-activable mitochondrion-disturbing polymer-drug conjugate enhances active penetration in glioblastoma therapy
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Abstract
The application of nanomedicines for glioblastoma (GBM) therapy is hampered by the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and the dense glioblastoma tissue. To achieve efficient BBB crossing and deep GBM penetration, this work demonstrates a strategy of active transcellular transport of a mitochondrion-disturbing nanomedicine, pGBEMA22 -b-pSSPPT9 (GBEPPT), in the GBM tissue through mitocytosis. GBEPPT is computer-aided designed and prepared by self-assembling a conjugate of an amphiphilic block polymer and a drug podophyllotoxin (PPT). When GBEPPT is delivered to the tumor site, overexpressed γ-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT) on the brain-blood endothelial cell, or the GBM cell triggered enzymatic hydrolysis of γ-glutamylamide on GBEPPT to reverse its negative charge to positive. Positively charged GBEPPT rapidly enter into the cell and target the mitochondria. These GBEPPT disturb the homeostasis of mitochondria, inducing mitocytosis-mediated extracellular transport of GBEPPT to the neighboring cells via mitosomes. This intracellular-to-intercellular delivery cycle allows GBEPPT to penetrate deeply into the GBM parenchyma, and exert sustainable action of PPT released from GBEPPT on the tumor cells along its penetration path at the tumor site, thus improving the anti-GBM effect. The process of mitocytosis mediated by the mitochondrion-disturbing nanomedicine may offer great potential in enhancing drug penetration through malignant tissues, especially poorly permeable solid tumors.
Date Issued
2024-05-02
Date Acceptance
2024-02-01
Citation
Advanced Materials, 2024, 36 (18)
ISSN
0935-9648
Publisher
Wiley
Journal / Book Title
Advanced Materials
Volume
36
Issue
18
Copyright Statement
Copyright © 2024 Wiley-VCH GmbH This is the author’s accepted manuscript made available under a CC-BY licence in accordance with Imperial’s Research Publications Open Access policy (www.imperial.ac.uk/oa-policy)
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38299748
Subjects
glioblastoma
mitochondrion targeting
mitocytosis
nanomedicine
tumor penetration
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
Germany
Article Number
2311500
Date Publish Online
2024-02-01