Activation of Platinum(IV) Prodrugs by Cytochrome c and Characterization of the Protein Binding Sites.

abstract：:Current chemotherapy strategies for second-line treatment of relapsed ovarian cancer are unable to effectively treat residual disease post-cytoreduction. The findings presented herein suggest that tissue penetration of drug is not only an issue for large, unresectable tumors, but also for invisible, microscopic lesion...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Eetezadi S,De Souza R,Vythilingam M,Lessa Cataldi R,Allen C

更新日期：2015-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphotericin B (AmB) is a lifesaving polyene antibiotic used widely to treat deep-seated mycoses. Both the pharmaceutical effectiveness as well as toxic side effects depend on molecular organization of the drug. In the present study, we analyzed steady-state fluorescence, fluorescence anisotropy spectra, fluorescence ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Wasko P,Luchowski R,Tutaj K,Grudzinski W,Adamkiewicz P,Gruszecki WI

更新日期：2012-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Near-infrared (NIR)-to-visible upconversion nanoparticle (UCNP) has shown promising prospects in photodynamic therapy (PDT) as a drug carrier or energy donor. In this work, a photosensitizer pyropheophorbide a (Ppa) and RGD peptide c(RGDyK) comodified chitosan-wrapped NaYF(4):Yb/Er upconversion nanoparticle UCNP-Ppa-R...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Zhou A,Wei Y,Wu B,Chen Q,Xing D

更新日期：2012-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung cancer is a kind of malignant tumor with high morbidity and metastasis tendency. Gambogic acid (GA) has demonstrated significant antitumor activity in vitro, but its poor water-solubility and adverse effects restrict its application in vivo and in clinic. In this study, a passive-targeting GA delivery system was ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Yang Y,Cai H,Yuan X,Xu H,Hu Y,Rui X,Wu J,Chen J,Li J,Gao X,Yin D

更新日期：2018-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to overexpression of glycyrrhetinic acid (GA) receptor in liver cancer cells, glycyrrhetinic acid modified recombinant human serum albumin (rHSA) nanoparticles for targeting liver tumor cells may result in increased therapeutic efficacy and decreased adverse effects of cancer therapy. In this study, doxorubicin (D...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Qi WW,Yu HY,Guo H,Lou J,Wang ZM,Liu P,Sapin-Minet A,Maincent P,Hong XC,Hu XM,Xiao YL

更新日期：2015-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Some specific types of tumor cells and tumor endothelial cells represented CD13 proteins and act as receptors for Asn-Gly-Arg (NGR) motifs containing peptide. These CD13 receptors can be specifically recognized and bind through the specific sequence of cyclic NGR (cNGR) peptide and presented more affinity and specific...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Gupta M,Chashoo G,Sharma PR,Saxena AK,Gupta PN,Agrawal GP,Vyas SP

更新日期：2014-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly(ethylene glycol)-block-poly(D,L-lactic acid) (PEG-b-PLA) micelles have a proven capacity for drug solubilization and have entered phase III clinical trials as a substitute for Cremophor EL in the delivery of paclitaxel in cancer therapy. PEG-b-PLA is less toxic than Cremophor EL, enabling a doubling of paclitaxel...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Shin HC,Alani AW,Cho H,Bae Y,Kolesar JM,Kwon GS

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the feasibility and efficacy of a drug delivery strategy to vascularized cancer that combines targeting selectivity with high uptake by targeted cells and high bioexposure of cells to delivered chemotherapeutics. Targeted lipid vesicles composed of pH responsive membranes were designed to reversibly fo...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Bandekar A,Zhu C,Gomez A,Menzenski MZ,Sempkowski M,Sofou S

更新日期：2013-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug transporter expression and function at the blood-brain barrier is altered in Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, the impact of AD on the expression of transporters and metabolizing enzymes in peripheral tissues has received little attention. The current study evaluated the expression of drug transporters and metab...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Pan Y,Omori K,Ali I,Tachikawa M,Terasaki T,Brouwer KLR,Nicolazzo JA

更新日期：2018-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal extracellular deposition of β-amyloid (Aβ) is thought to play a key role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Preventing Aβ-induced neurotoxicity has become a potential therapeutic approach to improve the onset and progression of AD. Here we report the synthesis of 1,1'-(biphenyl-4,4'-diyl)-bis(3-...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Zhu Y,Sun X,Gong T,He Q,Zhang Z

更新日期：2014-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotherapy is an indispensable auxiliary treatment for glioma but highly limited by the existence of both blood-brain barrier (BBB) and blood-brain tumor barrier (BBTB). The dysfunctional brain tumor blood vessels and high interstitial pressure in glioma also greatly hindered the accumulation and deep penetration of...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Miao D,Jiang M,Liu Z,Gu G,Hu Q,Kang T,Song Q,Yao L,Li W,Gao X,Sun M,Chen J

更新日期：2014-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted gene delivery using nonviral vectors is a highly touted scheme to reduce the potential for toxic or immunological side effects by reducing dose. In previous reports, TAT polyplexes with DNA have shown relatively poor gene delivery. The transfection efficiency has been enhanced by condensing TAT/DNA complexes ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Khondee S,Baoum A,Siahaan TJ,Berkland C

更新日期：2011-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:PLGA was functionalized with PEG and biotin using click chemistry to generate a biotin receptor targeted copolymer (biotinylated-PEG-PLGA) which in turn was used to fabricate ultrafine nanoparticles (BPNP) of doxorubicin hydrochloride (DOX) for effective delivery in 4T1 cell induced breast cancer. However, adequate en...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Singh Y,Durga Rao Viswanadham KK,Kumar Jajoriya A,Meher JG,Raval K,Jaiswal S,Dewangan J,Bora HK,Rath SK,Lal J,Mishra DP,Chourasia MK

更新日期：2017-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A big hurdle for the use of protein-based drugs is that they are easily degraded by proteases in the human body. In an attempt to solve this problem, we show the possibility to functionalize TM encapsulin nanoparticles with an mEETI-II knottin miniprotein from the cysteine-stabilized knot class. The resulting particle...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Klem R,de Ruiter MV,Cornelissen JJLM

更新日期：2018-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Curcumin (CUR) is a unique natural compound with promising anticancer and anti-inflammatory activities. However, the therapeutic efficacy of curcumin was challenged in clinical trials, mostly due to its low bioavailability, rapid metabolism, and elimination. We designed a nanodrug form of curcumin, which makes it stab...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Wei X,Senanayake TH,Bohling A,Vinogradov SV

更新日期：2014-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid-core nanocapsules (LCNs) have been proposed as drug carriers to improve brain delivery by modulating drug pharmacokinetics (PK). However, it is not clear whether the LCNs carry the drug through the blood-brain barrier or increase free drug penetration due to changes in the barrier permeability. Quetiapine (QTP) ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Carreño F,Paese K,Silva CM,Guterres SS,Dalla Costa T

更新日期：2016-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:meta-Tetra(hydroxyphenyl)chlorin (mTHPC) is one of the most potent second-generation photosensitizers, clinically used for photodynamic therapy (PDT) of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas. However, improvements are still required concerning its present formulation (i.e., Foscan, a solution of mTHPC in ethanol/prop...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Liu Y,Scrivano L,Peterson JD,Fens MHAM,Hernández IB,Mesquita B,Toraño JS,Hennink WE,van Nostrum CF,Oliveira S

更新日期：2020-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:HEPES has been widely employed as an organic buffer agent in cell culture medium as well as uptake and transport experiments in vitro. However, concentrations of HEPES used in such studies vary from one laboratory to another. In this study, we investigated the effect of HEPES on the uptake and bidirectional transport ...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Luo S,Pal D,Shah SJ,Kwatra D,Paturi KD,Mitra AK

更新日期：2010-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have a number of physical properties that make them appealing for medical applications. For example, the attenuation of X-rays by gold nanoparticles has led to their use in computed tomography imaging and as adjuvants for radiotherapy. AuNPs have numerous other applications in imaging, thera...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Mieszawska AJ,Mulder WJ,Fayad ZA,Cormode DP

更新日期：2013-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:To predict the outcome of intestinal drug transporter induction on pharmacokinetics, signaling of the DNA message along with messenger RNA (mRNA) transcription and protein translation leading to transporter function must be understood. We quantified the gene expression of PXR and CAR, gene expression and protein abund...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Brueck S,Bruckmueller H,Wegner D,Busch D,Martin P,Oswald S,Cascorbi I,Siegmund W

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody-based near-infrared photoimmunotherapy (NIR-PIT) is an attractive strategy for cancer treatment. Tumor cells can be selectively and efficiently killed by the targeted delivery of an antibody-photoabsorber complex followed by exposure to NIR light. Glycoprotein A33 antigen (GPA33) is highly expressed in most h...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Wei D,Tao Z,Shi Q,Wang L,Liu L,She T,Yi Q,Wen X,Liu L,Li S,Yang H,Jiang X

更新日期：2020-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective penetration of drug-carrying nanoparticles into solid tumors is a major challenge in cancer therapy. Exploration of the physicochemical properties of nanoparticles that affect penetration efficiency is required to achieve maximum therapeutic effects. Here, we used confocal laser scanning microscopy to evalua...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Takechi-Haraya Y,Goda Y,Sakai-Kato K

更新日期：2017-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:One hypothesis for persisting HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND) in effectively treated individuals is the limited permeation of antiretroviral agents (ARV) across the blood-brain barrier (BBB). However, the physicochemical factors limiting the brain entry of a given ARV and the mutual interactions of comb...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Marzolini C,Mueller R,Li-Blatter X,Battegay M,Seelig A

更新日期：2013-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging using 68Ga-labeled bisphosphonates to target bone metastasis could be a valuable tool in cancer diagnosis and monitoring therapeutic treatment. A 68Ga labeled ligand, N,N'-bis[2-hydroxy-5-(carboxyethyl)benzyl]ethylenediamine-N,N'-diacetic acid (HBED-CC) containing one bisphos...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Zha Z,Wu Z,Choi SR,Ploessl K,Smith M,Alexoff D,Zhu L,Kung HF

更新日期：2020-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Although tumor-targeting nanovehicles for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) chemotherapy have attracted great research and clinic interest, the poor cancer penetration, inefficient cellular uptake, and slow intracellular drug release greatly compromise their therapeutic outcomes. In this work, a multifunctional mixed mic...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Zhang J,Zheng Y,Xie X,Wang L,Su Z,Wang Y,Leong KW,Chen M

更新日期：2017-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) is overexpressed in most melanoma metastases, making it a promising target for imaging of melanomas. In this study, the expression of MC1R in a large fraction of patients with melanoma was confirmed using mRNA and tissue microarray. Here, we have characterized the in vivo tumor and t...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Tafreshi NK,Silva A,Estrella VC,McCardle TW,Chen T,Jeune-Smith Y,Lloyd MC,Enkemann SA,Smalley KS,Sondak VK,Vagner J,Morse DL

更新日期：2013-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Gemcitabine, a clinically effective nucleoside anticancer agent, is a polar drug with low membrane permeability and is administered intravenously. Further, extensive degradation of gemcitabine by cytidine deaminase to an inactive metabolite in the liver affects its activity adversely. Thus, strategies that provide bot...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Song X,Lorenzi PL,Landowski CP,Vig BS,Hilfinger JM,Amidon GL

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ATP-binding cassette (ABC) drug transporter ABCG2 can actively efflux a wide variety of chemotherapeutic agents out of cancer cells and subsequently reduce the intracellular accumulation of these drugs. Therefore, the overexpression of ABCG2 often contributes to the development of multidrug resistance (MDR) in can...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Wu CP,Hsiao SH,Murakami M,Lu YJ,Li YQ,Huang YH,Hung TH,Ambudkar SV,Wu YS

更新日期：2017-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipophilic cations such as phosphonium salts can accumulate in mitochondria of heart in response to the negative inner-transmembrane potentials. Two phosphonium salts [(18)F]FMBTP and [(18)F]mFMBTP were prepared and evaluated as potential myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) agents in this study. The cations were radiol...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Zhao Z,Yu Q,Mou T,Liu C,Yang W,Fang W,Peng C,Lu J,Liu Y,Zhang X

更新日期：2014-11-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Dual variable domain immunoglobulin proteins (DVD-Ig proteins) are large molecules (MW ∼ 200 kDa) with increased asymmetry because of their extended Y-like shape, which results in increased formulation challenges. Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) of protein solutions into protein-rich and protein-poor phases redu...

journal_title：Molecular pharmaceutics

authors： Raut AS,Kalonia DS

更新日期：2015-09-08 00:00:00