PMID- 32278056 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210218 LR - 20211204 IS - 1873-3476 (Electronic) IS - 0378-5173 (Linking) VI - 582 DP - 2020 May 30 TI - Folate decorated polymeric micelles for targeted delivery of the kinase inhibitor dactolisib to cancer cells. PG - 119305 LID - S0378-5173(20)30289-1 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2020.119305 [doi] AB - One of the main challenges in clinical translation of polymeric micelles is retention of the drug in the nanocarrier system upon its systemic administration. Core crosslinking and coupling of the drug to the micellar backbone are common strategies to overcome these issues. In the present study, polymeric micelles were prepared for tumor cell targeting of the kinase inhibitor dactolisib which inhibits both the mammalian Target of Rapamycin (mTOR) kinase and phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K). We employed platinum(II)-based linker chemistry to couple dactolisib to the core of poly(ethylene glycol)-b-poly(acrylic acid) (PEG-b-PAA) polymeric micelles. The formed dactolisib-PEG-PAA unimers are amphiphilic and self-assemble in an aqueous milieu into core-shell polymeric micelles. Folate was conjugated onto the surface of the micelles to yield folate-decorated polymeric micelles which can target folate receptor over-expressing tumor cells. Fluorescently labeled polymeric micelles were prepared using a lissamine-platinum complex linked in a similar manner as dactolisib. Dactolisib polymeric micelles showed good colloidal stability in water and released the coupled drug in buffers containing chloride or glutathione. Folate decorated micelles were avidly internalized by folate-receptor-positive KB cells and displayed targeted cellular cytotoxicity at 50-75 nM IC(50). In conclusion, we have prepared a novel type of folate-receptor targeted polymeric micelles in which platinum(II) linker chemistry modulates drug retention and sustained release of the coupled inhibitor dactolisib. CI - Copyright (c) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Shi, Haili AU - Shi H AD - Department of Pharmaceutics, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. FAU - van Steenbergen, Mies J AU - van Steenbergen MJ AD - Department of Pharmaceutics, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. FAU - Lou, Bo AU - Lou B AD - Department of Pharmaceutics, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. FAU - Liu, Yanna AU - Liu Y AD - Department of Pharmaceutics, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. FAU - Hennink, Wim E AU - Hennink WE AD - Department of Pharmaceutics, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. FAU - Kok, Robbert J AU - Kok RJ AD - Department of Pharmaceutics, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Electronic address: r.j.kok@uu.nl. LA - eng PT - Comparative Study PT - Journal Article DEP - 20200408 PL - Netherlands TA - Int J Pharm JT - International journal of pharmaceutics JID - 7804127 RN - 0 (Acrylic Resins) RN - 0 (Antineoplastic Agents) RN - 0 (Drug Carriers) RN - 0 (Folic Acid Transporters) RN - 0 (Imidazoles) RN - 0 (Micelles) RN - 0 (Phosphoinositide-3 Kinase Inhibitors) RN - 0 (Quinolines) RN - 3WJQ0SDW1A (Polyethylene Glycols) RN - 4Q93RCW27E (carbopol 940) RN - 935E97BOY8 (Folic Acid) RN - EC 2.7.1.1 (MTOR protein, human) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases) RN - RUJ6Z9Y0DT (dactolisib) SB - IM MH - A549 Cells MH - Acrylic Resins/*chemistry MH - Antineoplastic Agents/chemistry/metabolism/*pharmacology MH - Cell Survival MH - *Drug Carriers MH - Drug Compounding MH - Drug Liberation MH - Drug Stability MH - Folic Acid/chemistry/*metabolism MH - Folic Acid Transporters/metabolism MH - Humans MH - Imidazoles/chemistry/metabolism/*pharmacology MH - Lung Neoplasms/*drug therapy/enzymology/pathology MH - Micelles MH - Phosphoinositide-3 Kinase Inhibitors/chemistry/metabolism/*pharmacology MH - Polyethylene Glycols/*chemistry MH - Quinolines/chemistry/metabolism/*pharmacology MH - Signal Transduction MH - TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism OTO - NOTNLM OT - Cancer OT - Coordination chemistry OT - Dactolisib OT - Folate OT - Polymeric micelles OT - Signal transduction inhibitor OT - Targeted drug delivery COIS- Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2020/04/12 06:00 MHDA- 2021/02/20 06:00 CRDT- 2020/04/12 06:00 PHST- 2020/01/10 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/04/02 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/04/03 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/04/12 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/02/20 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/04/12 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0378-5173(20)30289-1 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2020.119305 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Int J Pharm. 2020 May 30;582:119305. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2020.119305. Epub 2020 Apr 8.