writer：Wenzhuo Chen, Xuefeng Li, Chengfei Liu, Jia He, Miao Qi,Yue Sun,Bingbing Shi,Hajar Sepehrpour,Hui Li,Wei Tian*, and Peter J. Stang*
keywords：supramolecular coordination complex，drug delivery system，supramolecular hyperbranched polymer assemblies，metallacycle，combination chemotherapy
source：期刊
specific source：DOI：10.1073/pnas.2007798117
Issue time：2020年

Despite the widespread clinical application of chemotherapeutic anticancer drugs, their adverse side effects and inefficient performances remain ongoing issues. A drug delivery system (DDS) designed for a specific cancer may therefore overcome the drawbacks of single chemotherapeutic drugs and provide precise and synergistical cancer treatment by introducing exclusive stimulus responsiveness and combined chemotherapy properties. Herein, we report the design and synthesis of a supramolecular drug delivery assembly 1 constructed by orthogonal self-assembly technique in aqueous media specifically for application in liver cancer therapy. Complex 1 incorporates the β-cyclodextrin host moleculefunctionalized organoplatinum(II) metallacycle 2 with two specific stimulus-responsive motifs to the signaling molecule nitric oxide (NO), in addition to the three-armed polyethylene glycol (PEG) functionalized ferrocene 3 with redox responsiveness. With this molecular design, the particularly low critical aggregation concentration (CAC) of assembly 1 allowed encapsulation of the commercial anticancer drug doxorubicin (DOX). Controlled drug release was also achieved by morphological transfer via a sensitive response to the endogenous redox and NO stimuli, which are specifically related to the microenvironment of liver tumor cells. Upon combination of these properties with the anticancer ability from the platinum acceptor, in vitro studies demonstrated that DOX-loaded 1 is able to codeliver anticancer drugs and exhibit therapeutic effectiveness to liver tumor sites via a synergistic effect, thereby revealing a potential DDS platform for precise liver cancer therapeutics. 

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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2007798117