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ArticleACS applied bio materials2024

Co-Assembly of Cancer Drugs with Cyclo-HH Peptides: Insights from Simulations and Experiments.

Anastasia Vlachou, Vijay Bhooshan Kumar, Om Shanker Tiwari, Sigal Rencus-Lazar, Yu Chen, Busra Ozguney, Ehud Gazit, Phanourios Tamamis

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Article in ACS applied bio materials, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Anastasia VlachouArtie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3122, United States.ORCID 0009-0002-0920-2242
Vijay Bhooshan KumarThe Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-7899-1463
Om Shanker TiwariThe Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-5918-3281
Sigal Rencus-LazarThe Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.
Yu ChenThe Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-4481-2137
Busra OzguneyArtie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3122, United States.
Ehud GazitThe Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-5764-1720
Phanourios TamamisArtie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-3122, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3342-2651
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Peptide-based nanomaterials can serve as promising drug delivery agents, facilitating the release of active pharmaceutical ingredients while reducing the risk of adverse reactions. We previously demonstrated that Cyclo-Histidine-Histidine (Cyclo-HH), co-assembled with cancer drug Epirubicin, zinc, and nitrate ions, can constitute an attractive drug delivery system, combining drug self-encapsulation, enhanced fluorescence, and the ability to transport the drug into cells. Here, we investigated both computationally and experimentally whether Cyclo-HH could co-assemble, in the presence of zinc and nitrate ions, with other cancer drugs with different physicochemical properties. Our studies indicated that Methotrexate, in addition to Epirubicin and its epimer Doxorubicin, and to a lesser extent Mitomycin-C and 5-Fluorouracil, have the capacity to co-assemble with Cyclo-HH, zinc, and nitrate ions, while a significantly lower propensity was observed for Cisplatin. Epirubicin, Doxorubicin, and Methorexate showed improved drug encapsulation and drug release properties, compared to Mitomycin-C and 5-Fluorouracil. We demonstrated the biocompatibility of the co-assembled systems, as well as their ability to intracellularly release the drugs, particularly for Epirubicin, Doxorubicin, and Methorexate. Zinc and nitrate were shown to be important in the co-assembly, coordinating with drugs and/or Cyclo-HH, thereby enabling drug-peptide as well as drug-drug interactions in successfully formed nanocarriers. The insights could be used in the future design of advanced cancer therapeutic systems with improved properties.

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Antineoplastic AgentsNeoplasmsDoxorubicinEpirubicinFluorouracilHistidineMitomycinNitratesPeptidesZincAntineoplastic AgentsDoxorubicinEpirubicinFluorouracilHistidineMitomycinNitratesPeptidesZinccancer drugsdrug encapsulationmolecular dynamics simulationspeptide co-assembly with drugspeptide self-assembly

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