Design and Construction of pH-Selective Self-Lytic Liposome System
Department of Applied Molecular Chemistry, College of Industrial Technology, Nihon University, 1-2-1 Izumi-cho, Narashino, Chiba 275-8575, Japan
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Processes 2020, 8(12), 1526; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr8121526
Received: 27 October 2020 / Revised: 17 November 2020 / Accepted: 21 November 2020 / Published: 24 November 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances of Peptide Engineering)
Liposomes are well-investigated drug or gene delivery vehicles for chemotherapy, used by taking advantage of their biocompatibility and biodegradability. A central question on the construction of intracellular liposomal delivery systems is to entrap the liposomes of interest in the highly acidic and proteolytic endosomal environment. In the other words, it is essential that the liposomes release a therapeutic drug into the cytosol before they are degraded in the endosome. As a strategy to enhance the endosome escape, the self-lytic liposomes with acidic pH-selective membrane active polypeptide are considered highly effective. Here, an acidic pH-selective membrane-lytic polypeptide (LPE) and its retro isomer (rLPE) were designed, and then their membrane-lytic activities against EggPC liposomes were determined. It was noticed that the rLPE polypeptide showed an increase in activity compared with the LPE polypeptide. Furthermore, the rLPE polypeptide was conjugated to liposomes via a flexible Gly-Gly-Gly-Gly linker to facilitate the pH-selective content release. The rLPE anchoring liposomes exhibited distinctly different contents release behavior at physiological and endosomal pHs, namely typical contents release from liposomes was positively observed at acidic pH range. The overarching goal of this paper is to develop efficient pH-selective therapeutic delivery systems by using our findings.
View Full-Text
▼
Show Figures
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
- Supplementary File 1:
PDF-Document (PDF, 708 KiB)
MDPI and ACS Style
Kashiwada, A.; Namiki, K.; Mori, H. Design and Construction of pH-Selective Self-Lytic Liposome System. Processes 2020, 8, 1526. https://doi.org/10.3390/pr8121526
AMA Style
Kashiwada A, Namiki K, Mori H. Design and Construction of pH-Selective Self-Lytic Liposome System. Processes. 2020; 8(12):1526. https://doi.org/10.3390/pr8121526
Chicago/Turabian StyleKashiwada, Ayumi; Namiki, Kana; Mori, Haruka. 2020. "Design and Construction of pH-Selective Self-Lytic Liposome System" Processes 8, no. 12: 1526. https://doi.org/10.3390/pr8121526
Find Other Styles
Note that from the first issue of 2016, MDPI journals use article numbers instead of page numbers. See further details here.
Search more from Scilit