PMID- 35021563 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20220113 IS - 2576-6422 (Electronic) IS - 2576-6422 (Linking) VI - 2 IP - 12 DP - 2019 Dec 16 TI - Gold Nanorods Functionalized with Cathepsin B Targeting Peptide and Doxorubicin for Combinatorial Therapy against Multidrug Resistance. PG - 5697-5706 LID - 10.1021/acsabm.9b00755 [doi] AB - Multidrug resistance (MDR) and adverse effects of chemotherapeutic agents are severe issues in clinical cancer treatment. Due to the dysregulation of enzymes in the cancer cells, enzyme-responsive drug delivery systems (DDSs) have been considered as a viable technology for cancer chemotherapy. In the present work, doxorubicin (DOX) is visible after leaving from AuNR-LAX. After treatment with AuNR-LAX, the drug resistance index of DOX-resistant MCF-7/ADR cells was reduced from extremely high 955.0 to 1.7, implying high potential of AuNR-LAX in the MDR phenotype cancer treatment. In addition, the cellular viability of both MCF-7 and MCF-7/ADR cells decreased from 50% to 80% after treatment with AuNR-LAX along (equivalent DOX concentration = 2.3 mug/mL, Au concentration = 30 mug/mL) to below 10% after AuNR-LAX treatment plus radiation of 808 nm, due to the NIR photothermal effect of AuNRs. Human bronchial epithelial cell line 16HBE was chosen to evaluate the adverse effect of AuNR-LAX on the normal cells. At the low concentration, the cytotoxicity of LAX and AuNR-LAX is comparable for breast cancer cell MCF-7 and normal cell 16HBE. It is noted that, at high concentration (with equivalent DOX concentration = 13.1 mug/mL, Au concentration = 167.7 mug/mL), the cellular viability of 16HBE cells is over 50%, whereas that of MCF-7 cancer cells is close to 0, implying the potential of AuNR-LAX in reducing the adverse effects of DOX against normal cells/tissues. Overall, AuNR-LAX showed high potential in overcoming MDR and alleviating adverse effect on normal cells. FAU - Zhi, Xiaomin AU - Zhi X AD - School of Pharmaceutics, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China. FAU - Jiang, Yuqian AU - Jiang Y AD - School of Pharmaceutics, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China. FAU - Xie, Linlin AU - Xie L AD - School of Pharmaceutics, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China. FAU - Li, Yanbo AU - Li Y AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5414-0736 AD - School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China. AD - Beijing Key Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China. FAU - Fang, Chen-Jie AU - Fang CJ AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1450-1271 AD - School of Pharmaceutics, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100069, China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20191112 PL - United States TA - ACS Appl Bio Mater JT - ACS applied bio materials JID - 101729147 SB - IM OTO - NOTNLM OT - adverse effect OT - cathepsin B OT - enzyme-responsive release OT - gold nanorod OT - multidrug resistance EDAT- 2019/12/16 00:00 MHDA- 2019/12/16 00:01 CRDT- 2022/01/13 01:01 PHST- 2022/01/13 01:01 [entrez] PHST- 2019/12/16 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/12/16 00:01 [medline] AID - 10.1021/acsabm.9b00755 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - ACS Appl Bio Mater. 2019 Dec 16;2(12):5697-5706. doi: 10.1021/acsabm.9b00755. Epub 2019 Nov 12.