Nuclear-Targeted Drug Delivery of TAT Peptide-Conjugated Monodisperse Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles

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• 作者：Limin Pan ; Qianjun He ; Jianan Liu ; Yu Chen ; Ming Ma ; Linlin Zhang ; Jianlin Shi
• 刊名：The Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：April 4, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：134
• 期：13
• 页码：5722-5725
• 全文大小：285K
• 年卷期：v.134,no.13(April 4, 2012)
• ISSN：1520-5126

文摘

Most present nanodrug delivery systems have been developed to target cancer cells but rarely nuclei. However, nuclear-targeted drug delivery is expected to kill cancer cells more directly and efficiently. In this work, TAT peptide has been employed to conjugate onto mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs-TAT) with high payload for nuclear-targeted drug delivery for the first time. Monodispersed MSNs-TAT of varied particle sizes have been synthesized to investigate the effects of particle size and TAT conjugation on the nuclear membrane penetrability of MSNs. MSNs-TAT with a diameter of 50 nm or smaller can efficiently target the nucleus and deliver the active anticancer drug doxorubicin (DOX) into the targeted nucleus, killing these cancer cells with much enhanced efficiencies. This study may provide an effective strategy for the design and development of cell-nuclear-targeted drug delivery.