Enhanced chemo-photodynamic therapy of an enzyme-responsive prodrug in bladder cancer patient-derived xenograft models
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Supporting information
Accepted version
Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models are powerful tools for understanding cancer biology and drug discovery. In this study, a polymeric nano-sized drug delivery system poly(OEGMA)-PTX@Ce6 (NPs@Ce6) composed of a photosensitizer chlorin e6 (Ce6) and a cathepsin B-sensitive polymer-paclitaxel (PTX) prodrug was constructed. The photochemical internalization (PCI) effect and enhanced chemo-photodynamic therapy (PDT) were achieved via a two-stage light irradiation strategy. The results showed that the NPs@Ce6 had great tumor targeting and rapid cellular uptake induced by PCI, thereby producing excellent anti-tumor effects on human bladder cancer PDX models with tumor growth inhibition greater than 98%. Bioinformatics analysis revealed that the combination of PTX chemotherapy and PDT up-regulated oxidative phosphorylation and ROS generation, blocked cell cycle and proliferation, and down-regulated the pathways related to tumor progression, invasion and metastasis, including hypoxia, TGF-β signaling and TNF-α signaling pathways. Western blots analysis confirmed that proteins promoting apoptosis (Bax, cleaved caspase-3, cleaved PARP) and DNA damage (γH2A.X) were up-regulated, while those inhibiting apoptosis (Bcl-2) and mitosis (pan-actin and α/β-tubulin) were down-regulated after chemo-PDT treatment. Therefore, this stimuli-responsive polymer-PTX prodrug-based nanomedicine with combinational chemotherapy and PDT evaluated in the PDX models could be a potential candidate for bladder cancer therapy.
Date Issued
2021-10
Date Acceptance
2021-08-04
Citation
Biomaterials, 2021, 277, pp.1-13
ISSN
0142-9612
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Start Page
1
End Page
13
Journal / Book Title
Biomaterials
Volume
277
Copyright Statement
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Sponsor
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust- BRC Funding
Identifier
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142961221004178?via%3Dihub
Grant Number
RDF01
Subjects
Polymer-paclitaxel prodrug
Chemo-photodynamic therapy
Photo-chemical internalization
PDX models
Bladder cancer
Bioinformatics analysis
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
121061
Date Publish Online
2021-08-27