PMID- 29885851 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20181105 LR - 20181105 IS - 1873-3441 (Electronic) IS - 0939-6411 (Linking) VI - 130 DP - 2018 Sep TI - N-(2-hydroxypropyl)methacrylamide polymer conjugated pyropheophorbide-a, a promising tumor-targeted theranostic probe for photodynamic therapy and imaging. PG - 165-176 LID - S0939-6411(18)30493-4 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.ejpb.2018.06.005 [doi] AB - Tumor-targeted photodynamic therapy (PDT) using polymeric photosensitizers is a promising therapeutic strategy for cancer treatment. In this study, we synthesized a pHPMA conjugated pyropheophorbide-a (P-PyF) as a cancer theranostic agent for PDT and photodynamic diagnostics (PDD). Pyropheophorbide-a has one carboxyl group which was conjugated to pHPMA via amide bond yielding the intended product with high purity. In aqueous solutions, P-PyF showed a mean particle size of approximately 200 nm as it forms micelle which exhibited fluorescence quenching and thus very little singlet oxygen ((1)O(2)) production. In contrast, upon disruption of micelle strong fluorescence and (1)O(2) production were observed. In vitro study clearly showed the PDT effect of P-PyF. More potent (1)O(2) production and PDT effect were observed during irradiation at approximately 420 nm, the maximal absorbance of pyropheophorbide-a, than irradiation at longer wavelength (i.e., approximately 680 nm), suggesting selection of proper absorption light is essential for successful PDT. In vivo study showed high tumor accumulation of P-PyF compared with most of normal tissues due to the enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect, which resulting in superior antitumor effect under irradiation using normal xenon light source of endoscope, and clear tumor imaging profiles even in the metastatic lung cancer at 28 days after administration of P-PyF. On the contrary irradiation using long wavelength (i.e., approximately 680 nm), the lowest Q-Band, exhibited remarkable tumor imaging effect with little autofluorescence of background. These findings strongly suggested P-PyF may be a potential candidate-drug for PDT/PDD, particularly using two different wavelength for treatment and detection/imaging, respectively. CI - Copyright (c) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Fang, Jun AU - Fang J AD - Laboratory of Microbiology and Oncology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sojo University, Kumamoto 860-0082, Japan. Electronic address: fangjun@ph.sojo-u.ac.jp. FAU - Subr, Vladimir AU - Subr V AD - Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Heyrovsky sq. 2, 16206 Prague 6, Czech Republic. FAU - Islam, Waliul AU - Islam W AD - Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto 860-8556, Japan. FAU - Hackbarth, Steffen AU - Hackbarth S AD - Institute of Physics, Photobiophysics, Humboldt University of Berlin, Newtonstr. 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany. FAU - Islam, Rayhanul AU - Islam R AD - Laboratory of Microbiology and Oncology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sojo University, Kumamoto 860-0082, Japan. FAU - Etrych, Tomas AU - Etrych T AD - Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Heyrovsky sq. 2, 16206 Prague 6, Czech Republic. FAU - Ulbrich, Karel AU - Ulbrich K AD - Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Heyrovsky sq. 2, 16206 Prague 6, Czech Republic. FAU - Maeda, Hiroshi AU - Maeda H AD - Department of Microbiology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto 860-8556, Japan; BioDynamics Research Foundation, Kumamoto 862-0954, Japan; Osaka University, Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan. Electronic address: maedabdr@sweet.ocn.ne.jp. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20180608 PL - Netherlands TA - Eur J Pharm Biopharm JT - European journal of pharmaceutics and biopharmaceutics : official journal of Arbeitsgemeinschaft fur Pharmazeutische Verfahrenstechnik e.V JID - 9109778 RN - 0 (Micelles) RN - 0 (Photosensitizing Agents) RN - 0 (Polymers) RN - 0 (Polymethacrylic Acids) RN - 1406-65-1 (Chlorophyll) RN - 24533-72-0 (pyropheophorbide a) RN - 40704-75-4 (Duxon) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Chlorophyll/administration & dosage/*analogs & derivatives/pharmacokinetics MH - Fluorescence MH - Lung Neoplasms/diagnosis/*drug therapy MH - Male MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred BALB C MH - Mice, Inbred C57BL MH - Micelles MH - Particle Size MH - Permeability MH - Photochemotherapy/*methods MH - Photosensitizing Agents/administration & dosage MH - Polymers/chemistry MH - Polymethacrylic Acids/*chemistry MH - Theranostic Nanomedicine/methods MH - Time Factors MH - Tissue Distribution OTO - NOTNLM OT - EPR effect OT - Macromolecular photosensitizers OT - Polymeric micelles OT - Pyropheoporbide-a OT - Singlet oxygen OT - Tumor targeting EDAT- 2018/06/11 06:00 MHDA- 2018/11/06 06:00 CRDT- 2018/06/11 06:00 PHST- 2018/04/17 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/06/06 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2018/06/06 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/06/11 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/11/06 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/06/11 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0939-6411(18)30493-4 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.ejpb.2018.06.005 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Eur J Pharm Biopharm. 2018 Sep;130:165-176. doi: 10.1016/j.ejpb.2018.06.005. Epub 2018 Jun 8.