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Pérez Quiñones J, Roschger C, Zierer A, Peniche-Covas C, Brüggemann O. Self-Assembled Silk Fibroin-Based Aggregates for Delivery of Camptothecin. Polymers (Basel) 2021; 13:polym13213804. [PMID: 34771362 PMCID: PMC8587969 DOI: 10.3390/polym13213804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2021] [Revised: 10/27/2021] [Accepted: 10/28/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
Abstract
A water-soluble hydrolysate of silk fibroin (SF) (~30 kDa) was esterified with tocopherol, ergocalciferol, and testosterone to form SF aggregates for the controlled delivery of the anticancer drug camptothecin (CPT). Elemental analysis and 1H NMR spectroscopy showed a degree of substitution (DS) on SF of 0.4 to 3.8 mol %. Yields of 58 to 71% on vitamins- and testosterone-grafted SF conjugates were achieved. CPT was efficiently incorporated into the lipophilic core of SF aggregates using a dialysis-precipitation method, achieving drug contents of 6.3-8.5 wt %. FTIR spectra and DSC thermograms showed that tocopherol- and testosterone-grafted SF conjugates predominantly adopted a β-sheet conformation. After the esterification of tyrosine residues on SF chains with the vitamin or testosterone, the hydrodynamic diameters almost doubled or tripled that of SF. The zeta potential values after esterification increased to about -30 mV, which favors the stability of aggregates in aqueous medium. Controlled and almost quantitative release of CPT was achieved after 6 days in PBS at 37 °C, with almost linear release during the first 8 h. MCF-7 cancer cells exhibited good uptake of CPT-loaded SF aggregates after 6 h, causing cell death and cell cycle arrest in the G2/M phase. Substantial uptake of the CPT-loaded aggregates into MCF-7 spheroids was shown after 3 days. Furthermore, all CPT-loaded SF aggregates demonstrated superior toxicity to MCF-7 spheroids compared with parent CPT. Blank SF aggregates induced no hemolysis at pH 6.2 and 7.4, while CPT-loaded SF aggregates provoked hemolysis at pH 6.2 but not at pH 7.4. In contrast, parent CPT caused hemolysis at both pH tested. Therefore, CPT-loaded SF aggregates are promising candidates for chemotherapy.
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Affiliation(s)
- Javier Pérez Quiñones
- Institute of Polymer Chemistry, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenberger Straße 69, 4040 Linz, Austria;
- Correspondence: or ; Tel.: +43-670-4039820
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- Department for Cardiac-, Vascular- and Thoracic Surgery, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Kepler University Hospital GmBH, Altenberger Straße 69, 4040 Linz and Krankenhausstraße 7a, 4020 Linz, Austria; (C.R.); or (A.Z.)
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- Department for Cardiac-, Vascular- and Thoracic Surgery, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Kepler University Hospital GmBH, Altenberger Straße 69, 4040 Linz and Krankenhausstraße 7a, 4020 Linz, Austria; (C.R.); or (A.Z.)
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- Facultad de Química, Universidad de La Habana, Zapata S/N entre G y Carlitos Aguirre, La Habana 10400, Cuba;
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- Institute of Polymer Chemistry, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Altenberger Straße 69, 4040 Linz, Austria;
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Qiao Z, Lv X, He S, Bai S, Liu X, Hou L, He J, Tong D, Ruan R, Zhang J, Ding J, Yang H. A mussel-inspired supramolecular hydrogel with robust tissue anchor for rapid hemostasis of arterial and visceral bleedings. Bioact Mater 2021; 6:2829-2840. [PMID: 33718665 PMCID: PMC7905459 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioactmat.2021.01.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 39.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2020] [Revised: 01/18/2021] [Accepted: 01/30/2021] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
Abstract
In recent years, the developed hemostatic technologies are still difficult to be applied to the hemostasis of massive arterial and visceral hemorrhage, owing to their weak hemostatic function, inferior wet tissue adhesion, and low mechanical properties. Herein, a mussel-inspired supramolecular interaction-cross-linked hydrogel with robust mechanical property (308.47 ± 29.20 kPa) and excellent hemostatic efficiency (96.5% ± 2.1%) was constructed as a hemostatic sealant. Typically, we combined chitosan (CS) with silk fibroin (SF) by cross-linking them through tannic acid (TA) to maintain the structural stability of the hydrogel, especially for wet tissue adhesion ability (shear adhesive strength = 29.66 ± 0.36 kPa). Compared with other materials reported previously, the obtained CS/TA/SF hydrogel yielded a lower amount of blood loss and shorter time to hemostasis in various arterial and visceral bleeding models, which could be ascribed to the synergistic effect of wound closure under wet state as well as intrinsic hemostatic activity of CS. As a superior hemostatic sealant, the unique hydrogel proposed in this work can be exploited to offer significant advantages in the acute wound and massive hemorrhage with the restrictive access of therapeutic moieties.
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- Ziwen Qiao
- Qingyuan Innovation Laboratory, College of Chemical Engineering, Fuzhou University, 2 Xueyuan Road, Fuzhou, 350108, PR China
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- College of Biological Science and Engineering, Fuzhou University, 2 Xueyuan Road, Fuzhou, 350108, PR China
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- Department of Pediatric Surgery, Fujian Provincial Hospital, 134 Dongjie Road, Fuzhou, 350001, PR China
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- College of Biological Science and Engineering, Fuzhou University, 2 Xueyuan Road, Fuzhou, 350108, PR China
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- MOE Key Laboratory for Analytical Science of Food Safety and Biology, State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, 2 Xueyuan Road, Fuzhou, 350108, PR China
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- Qingyuan Innovation Laboratory, College of Chemical Engineering, Fuzhou University, 2 Xueyuan Road, Fuzhou, 350108, PR China
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- Qingyuan Innovation Laboratory, College of Chemical Engineering, Fuzhou University, 2 Xueyuan Road, Fuzhou, 350108, PR China
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- MOE Key Laboratory for Analytical Science of Food Safety and Biology, State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, 2 Xueyuan Road, Fuzhou, 350108, PR China
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- Qingyuan Innovation Laboratory, College of Chemical Engineering, Fuzhou University, 2 Xueyuan Road, Fuzhou, 350108, PR China
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- Qingyuan Innovation Laboratory, College of Chemical Engineering, Fuzhou University, 2 Xueyuan Road, Fuzhou, 350108, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Polymer Ecomaterials, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 5625 Renmin Street, Changchun, 130022, PR China
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- MOE Key Laboratory for Analytical Science of Food Safety and Biology, State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, 2 Xueyuan Road, Fuzhou, 350108, PR China
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