The limited distribution of anticancer nanodrugs remains a bottle-neck for their therapeutic effect. Several strategies
such as surface modification
photothermal activation
and microenvironment modulation
have been studied to improve the penetration of anticancer drugs in solid tumours. However
the inherent high osmotic pressure
high cell density
lack of blood supply
and other biological barriers in solid tumors make it difficult for nanomedicine to infiltrate in the tumors
thus inaccessible to the distal cells to exert an effective therapeutic effect. Therefore
the way to deliver sufficient drugs to infiltrate in a tumour is a key problem that should be solved quickly. Herein
we constructed a molecularly precise polylysine-dendrimer-drug conjugate with
γ
-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT)-sensitive termini and obtained a zwitterionic
γ
-glutamyl functionalized dendrimer-drug conjugate
i.e.
G4/CPT-BGA. The results showed the molecular weight of G4/CPT-BGA dendrimer was 20 kDa with a small size of 5 nm and a moderate surface charge of −2 mV. The G4/CPT-BGA could undergo rapid GGT-triggered charge-reversal from zwitterionic to cationic
thereby quickly endocytosed by tumor cells
releasing the conjugated drug (CPT) to exert effective cytotoxicity. The
in vitro
endocytosis and exocytosis experiments showed that G4/CPT-BGA was able to traffic in cells through a caveolae-mediated pathway
then traffic out of cells
via
Golgi-apparatus
thus achieving active transcytosis for transcellular delivery. The tumor penetration ability of G4/CPT-BGA was investigated using three-dimensional multicellular spheroids
which showed G4/CPT-BGA could evenly distribute throughout the spheroids
via
transcytosis-mediated active tumour infiltration. Therefore
a simple modification of the cationic dendrimer with GGT responsive zwitterionic
γ
-glutamine enables the dendrimer to actively transcytosis across cells
thereby avoiding the paracellular diffusion obstacles
which may also be applicable for designing anticancer nanomedicine systems with enhanced penetration ability.
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