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Reduction-Sensitive Tioguanine Prodrug Micelles

Van Der Vlies, Andre J.
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Hasegawa, Urara
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Hubbell, Jeffrey A.  
2012
Molecular Pharmaceutics

Colloidal drug and prodrug conjugates have unique targeting characteristics for tumor vasculature from the blood and for the lymphatics draining a tissue injection site. Tioguanine and tioguanine-generating prodrugs have been investigated as anticancer and immunosuppressive agents, including use in cancer immunotherapy. Recently we developed block copolymers of poly(ethylene glycol)-bl-poly(propylene sulfide) that self-assemble in aqueous solutions to form micellar structures. Since the polymers carry a free terminal thiol group resulting from the ring-opening polymerization of the propylene sulfide monomer, we sought to prepare prodrug block copolymers with tioguanine linked by a reduction-sensitive disulfide bond. The synthesis involved a disulfide exchange between the oxidized form of tioguanine and the polymer. Spectroscopic data is presented to support the proposed reaction. The polymers self-assembled when dispersed in water to form tioguanine prodrug micelles with a size range between 18 and 40 nm that released tioguanine in response to cysteine and serum as shown spectroscopically. In comparison with a poly(ethylene glycol) prodrug polymer, we show that the rate of tioguanine release can be controlled by changing the poly(propylene sulfide) block length and that the tioguanine remains bioactive with cultured cells.

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DOI
10.1021/mp3001183
Web of Science ID

WOS:000309314900003

Author(s)
Van Der Vlies, Andre J.
Hasegawa, Urara
Hubbell, Jeffrey A.  
Date Issued

2012

Publisher

Amer Chemical Soc

Published in
Molecular Pharmaceutics
Volume

9

Issue

10

Start page

2812

End page

2818

Subjects

polymeric prodrug

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block copolymer

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micelle

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tioguanine

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reduction-sensitive disulfide bond

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REVIEWED

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February 27, 2013
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