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ArticleACS nano2018

Modular Nanoparticulate Prodrug Design Enables Efficient Treatment of Solid Tumors Using Bioorthogonal Activation.

Miles A Miller, Hannes Mikula, Gaurav Luthria, Ran Li, Stefan Kronister, Mark Prytyskach, Rainer H Kohler, Timothy Mitchison, Ralph Weissleder

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Article in ACS nano, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

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42citing papers in PubMed
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

42 citing papers in PubMed, 98 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. Bioorthogonal nanozymes for breast cancer imaging and therapy.Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Miles A MillerCenter for Systems Biology , Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston , Massachusetts 02114 , United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7638-8898
Hannes MikulaCenter for Systems Biology , Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston , Massachusetts 02114 , United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9218-9722
Gaurav LuthriaCenter for Systems Biology , Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston , Massachusetts 02114 , United States.
Ran LiCenter for Systems Biology , Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston , Massachusetts 02114 , United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8537-8824
Stefan KronisterInstitute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry , Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) , Vienna 1060 , Austria.
Mark PrytyskachCenter for Systems Biology , Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston , Massachusetts 02114 , United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7070-8993
Rainer H KohlerCenter for Systems Biology , Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston , Massachusetts 02114 , United States.ORCID 0000-0001-6269-6590
Timothy MitchisonDepartment of Systems Biology , Harvard Medical School , Boston , Massachusetts 02115 , United States.
Ralph WeisslederCenter for Systems Biology , Massachusetts General Hospital , Boston , Massachusetts 02114 , United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0828-4143
Harvard University · USMassachusetts General Hospital · USTU Wien · AT

Funding

Training Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative GenomicsT32HG002295 · NHGRI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI Peter J Park · 2001 to 2026
$15.8M
Training Grant in Molecular Imaging Research (MGH/HMS)T32CA079443 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI WEISSLEDER, MD, PHD, RALPH · 2000 to 2025
$10.1M
Imaging of nanotherapeutic drug actionU01CA206997 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI WEISSLEDER, MD, PHD, RALPH · 2017 to 2021
$2.9M
Imaging tumor associated macrophage (TAM) functionR01CA206890 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI PITTET, MIKAEL, WEISSLEDER, MD, PHD, RALPH · 2017 to 2021
$1.9M
Single Cell In Vivo Imaging Technology to Analyze Taxane Nano Formulations in Breast CancerR00CA207744 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI MILLER, MILES A · 2018 to 2020
$747k
Single Cell In Vivo Imaging Technology to Analyze Taxane Nano Formulations in Breast CancerK99CA207744 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI MILLER, MILES A · 2016 to 2017
$359k
Austrian Science Fund FWF J 3586NCI NIH HHS K99 CA207744NCI NIH HHS R00 CA207744NCI NIH HHS R01 CA206890NCI NIH HHS T32 CA079443NCI NIH HHS U01 CA206997NHGRI NIH HHS T32 HG002295
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prodrug strategies that facilitate localized and controlled activity of small-molecule therapeutics can reduce systemic exposure and improve pharmacokinetics, yet limitations in activation chemistry have made it difficult to assign tunable multifunctionality to prodrugs. Here, we present the design and application of a modular small-molecule caging strategy that couples bioorthogonal cleavage with a self-immolative linker and an aliphatic anchor. This strategy leverages recently discovered in vivo catalysis by a nanoencapsulated palladium compound (Pd-NP), which mediates alloxylcarbamate cleavage and triggers release of the activated drug. The aliphatic anchor enables >90% nanoencapsulation efficiency of the prodrug, while also allowing >10

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Drug DesignAnimalsAntibiotics, AntineoplasticCell Line, TumorCell ProliferationDoxorubicinDrug Screening Assays, AntitumorFemaleFibrosarcomaHumansMetal NanoparticlesMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, NudeMolecular StructureNeoplasms, ExperimentalAntibiotics, AntineoplasticDoxorubicinPalladiumProdrugsdoxorubicindrug deliverymacrophagemononuclear phagocyte systemneo-adjuvant tumor primingsystems pharmacologytranslational nanomedicine

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PMID30550257
PMCPMC6307086
OpenAlexW2905402249

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