Dual-Targeted Hyaluronic Acid/Albumin Micelle-Like Nanoparticles for the Vectorization of Doxorubicin

Departamento de Farmacología, Farmacia y Tecnología Farmacéutica, I+D Farma Group, Facultad de Farmacia and Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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Pharmaceutics 2021, 13(3), 304; https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics13030304

Received: 29 January 2021 / Revised: 22 February 2021 / Accepted: 23 February 2021 / Published: 26 February 2021

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Self-Assembling Smart Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery)

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Abstract

Drug targeting of tumor cells is one of the great challenges in cancer therapy; nanoparticles based on natural polymers represent valuable tools to achieve this aim. The ability to respond to environmental signals from the pathological site (e.g., altered redox potential), together with the specific interaction with membrane receptors overexpressed on cancer cells membrane (e.g., CD44 receptors), represent the main features of actively targeted nanoparticles. In this work, redox-responsive micelle-like nanoparticles were prepared by self-assembling of a hyaluronic acid–human serum albumin conjugate containing cystamine moieties acting as a functional spacer. The conjugation procedure consisted of a reductive amination step of hyaluronic acid followed by condensation with albumin. After self-assembling, nanoparticles with a mean size of 70 nm and able to be destabilized in reducing media were obtained. Doxorubicin-loaded nanoparticles modulated drug release rate in response to different redox conditions. Finally, the viability and uptake experiments on healthy (BALB-3T3) and metastatic cancer (MDA-MB-231) cells proved the potential applicability of the proposed system as a drug vector in cancer therapy. View Full-Text

Keywords: hyaluronic acid; human serum albumin; polysaccharide-protein conjugate; micelle-like nanoparticles; redox-responsive; active targeting; cancer therapy

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Curcio, M.; Diaz-Gomez, L.; Cirillo, G.; Nicoletta, F.P.; Leggio, A.; Iemma, F. Dual-Targeted Hyaluronic Acid/Albumin Micelle-Like Nanoparticles for the Vectorization of Doxorubicin. Pharmaceutics 2021, 13, 304. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics13030304

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Curcio M, Diaz-Gomez L, Cirillo G, Nicoletta FP, Leggio A, Iemma F. Dual-Targeted Hyaluronic Acid/Albumin Micelle-Like Nanoparticles for the Vectorization of Doxorubicin. Pharmaceutics. 2021; 13(3):304. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics13030304

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Curcio, Manuela, Luis Diaz-Gomez, Giuseppe Cirillo, Fiore P. Nicoletta, Antonella Leggio, and Francesca Iemma. 2021. "Dual-Targeted Hyaluronic Acid/Albumin Micelle-Like Nanoparticles for the Vectorization of Doxorubicin" Pharmaceutics 13, no. 3: 304. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmaceutics13030304

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