PMID- 32450093 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210617 LR - 20210617 IS - 1873-4995 (Electronic) IS - 0168-3659 (Print) IS - 0168-3659 (Linking) VI - 324 DP - 2020 Aug 10 TI - Reactive oxygen species and enzyme dual-responsive biocompatible drug delivery system for targeted tumor therapy. PG - 330-340 LID - S0168-3659(20)30308-4 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.jconrel.2020.05.031 [doi] AB - Spurred by newly developed drug delivery systems (DDSs), side effects of cancer chemotherapy could be reduced by using multifunctional nanoplatforms. However, the facile synthesis of effective DDSs remains a challenge. Here, a six-arginine-tailed anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) affibody was employed to easily synthesize the highly reactive oxygen species (hROS)- and trypsin-responsive 11-mercaptoundecanoic acid-modified gold nanoclusters (MUA-Au NCs) for tumor-targeted drug delivery. The polyarginine moiety of affibody sealed methotrexate (MTX)-loaded MUA-Au NCs through charge effect, as well as leaving the rest targeting fragment of the affibody to specifically bind tumor overexpressed EGFR. As the shell of MUA-Au NCs-MTX-Affibody (MAMA), polyarginine chains of affibody could be digested by trypsin, helping to release MTX from MAMA. The released MTX accelerated destroying MUA-Au NCs through inducing the generation of hROS. Specifically targeting EGFR-overexpressed tumors, quickly delivering a sufficient amount of drug to the tumor, subsequently increasing the local MTX and hROS levels, and safely eliminating the biocompatible structure from kidney, endowed MAMA greater treatment effectiveness and lower side effect than chemotherapy, especially in pancreatic cancer due to its high trypsin level. This simply fabricated DDS may find applications in high effective cancer therapy, especially for tumors with high trypsin activity. CI - Copyright (c) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Zhao, Ning AU - Zhao N AD - Department of Radiology, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 94305, United States. Electronic address: zhaoning@stanford.edu. FAU - Ding, Bingbing AU - Ding B AD - Department of Radiology, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 94305, United States. FAU - Zhang, Ying AU - Zhang Y AD - Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Life and Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110000, PR China. FAU - Klockow, Jessica L AU - Klockow JL AD - Department of Radiology, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 94305, United States. FAU - Lau, Ken AU - Lau K AD - Department of Radiology, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 94305, United States. FAU - Chin, Frederick T AU - Chin FT AD - Department of Radiology, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 94305, United States. FAU - Cheng, Zhen AU - Cheng Z AD - Department of Radiology, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 94305, United States. Electronic address: zcheng@stanford.edu. FAU - Liu, Hongguang AU - Liu H AD - Institute of Molecular Medicine, College of Life and Health Sciences, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110000, PR China. Electronic address: simonliu@mail.neu.edu.cn. LA - eng GR - P30 CA124435/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20200523 PL - Netherlands TA - J Control Release JT - Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society JID - 8607908 RN - 0 (Reactive Oxygen Species) RN - 7440-57-5 (Gold) RN - YL5FZ2Y5U1 (Methotrexate) SB - IM MH - Drug Delivery Systems MH - Gold MH - Humans MH - *Metal Nanoparticles MH - Methotrexate MH - *Neoplasms/drug therapy MH - Reactive Oxygen Species PMC - PMC8006592 MID - NIHMS1678548 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Cancer therapy OT - Drug delivery OT - Gold nanocluster OT - Reactive oxygen species OT - Trypsin COIS- Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare no competing financial interest. EDAT- 2020/05/26 06:00 MHDA- 2021/06/22 06:00 PMCR- 2021/03/29 CRDT- 2020/05/26 06:00 PHST- 2020/01/31 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/05/06 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/05/20 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/05/26 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/06/22 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/05/26 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2021/03/29 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S0168-3659(20)30308-4 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.jconrel.2020.05.031 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Control Release. 2020 Aug 10;324:330-340. doi: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2020.05.031. Epub 2020 May 23.