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Doxorubicin-conjugated PAMAM dendrimers for pH-responsive drug release and folic acid-targeted cancer therapy

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We present here the development of multifunctional doxorubicin (DOX)-conjugated poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) dendrimers as a unique platform for pH-responsive drug release and targeted chemotherapy of cancer cells. In this work, we covalently conjugated DOX onto the periphery of partially acetylated and folic acid (FA)-modified generation 5 (G5) PAMAM dendrimers through a pH-sensitive cis-aconityl linkage to form the G5.NHAc-FA-DOX conjugates. The formed dendrimer conjugates were well characterized using different methods. We show that DOX release from the G5.NHAc-FA-DOX conjugates follows an acid-triggered manner with a higher release rate under an acidic pH condition (pH = 5 or 6, close to the acidic pH of tumor microenvironment) than under a physiological pH condition. Both in vitro cytotoxicity evaluation and cell morphological observation demonstrate that the therapeutic activity of dendrimer-DOX conjugates against cancer cells is absolutely related to the DOX drug released. More importantly, the FA conjugation onto the dendrimers allowed a specific targeting to cancer cells overexpressing FA receptors (FAR), and allowed targeted inhibition of cancer cells. The developed G5.NHAc-FA-DOX conjugates may be used as a promising nanodevice for targeted cancer chemotherapy.

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hal-01957974 , version 1 (17-12-2018)

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Mengen Zhang, Jingyi Zhu, Yun Zheng, Rui Guo, Shige Wang, et al.. Doxorubicin-conjugated PAMAM dendrimers for pH-responsive drug release and folic acid-targeted cancer therapy. Pharmaceutics, 2018, 10 (3), pp.162. ⟨10.3390/pharmaceutics10030162⟩. ⟨hal-01957974⟩
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