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ArticleCancers2020

Lipid-Saporin Nanoparticles for the Intracellular Delivery of Cytotoxic Protein to Overcome ABC Transporter-Mediated Multidrug Resistance In Vitro and In Vivo.

Guan-Nan Zhang, Pranav Gupta, Ming Wang, Anna Maria Barbuti, Charles R Ashby, Yun-Kai Zhang, Leli Zeng, Qiaobing Xu, Ying-Fang Fan, Zhe-Sheng Chen

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Article in Cancers, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Guan-Nan ZhangDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, St. John's University, Queens, NY 11439, USA.
Pranav GuptaDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, St. John's University, Queens, NY 11439, USA.
Ming WangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA.
Anna Maria BarbutiDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, St. John's University, Queens, NY 11439, USA.
Charles R AshbyDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, St. John's University, Queens, NY 11439, USA.
Yun-Kai ZhangDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, St. John's University, Queens, NY 11439, USA.
Leli ZengDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, St. John's University, Queens, NY 11439, USA.
Qiaobing XuDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155, USA.
Ying-Fang FanDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, St. John's University, Queens, NY 11439, USA.
Zhe-Sheng ChenDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, St. John's University, Queens, NY 11439, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8289-097X
St. John's University · USTufts University · US

Funding

ROS-responsive Chemical Modification of Protein and Its DeliveryR01EB027170 · NIBIB · TUFTS UNIVERSITY MEDFORD · PI XU, QIAOBING · 2018 to 2022
$1.4M
National Science Foundation Grant DMR 1452122NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB027170
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although the judicious use of anticancer drugs that target one or more receptor tyrosine kinases constitutes an effective strategy to attenuate tumor growth, drug resistance is commonly encountered in cancer patients. The ATP-binding cassette transporters are one of the major contributors to the development of multidrug resistance as their overexpression significantly decreases the intracellular concentration and thus, the efficacy of certain anticancer drugs. Therefore, the development of treatment strategies that would not be susceptible to efflux or excretion by specific ABC transporters could overcome resistance to treatment. Here, we investigated the anticancer efficacy of saporin, a ribosome-inactivating protein. Since saporin has poor permeability across the cell membrane, it was encapsulated in a lipid-based nanoparticle system (EC16-1) that effectively delivered the formulation (EC16-1/saporin) intracellularly and produced anti-cancer efficacy. EC16-1/saporin, at nanomolar concentrations, significantly inhibited the cellular proliferation of parental and ABCB1- and ABCG2-overexpressing cancer cells. EC16-1/saporin did not significantly alter the subcellular localization of ABCB1 and ABCG2. In addition, EC16-1/saporin induced apoptosis in parental and ABCB1- and ABCG2-overexpressing cancer cells. In a murine model system, EC16-1/saporin significantly inhibited the tumor growth in mice xenografted with parental and ABCB1- and ABCG2-overexpressing cancer cells. Our findings suggest that the EC16-1/saporin combination could potentially be a novel therapeutic treatment in patients with parental or ABCB1- and ABCG2-positive drug-resistant cancers.

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ATP-binding cassette transportercancerEC16-1multidrug resistancenanoparticlessaporin

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PMID32098067
PMCPMC7072609
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