Biological and Pharmaceutical Bulletin
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Development of a Screening System for Targeting Carriers Using Peptide-Modified Liposomes and Tissue Sections
Yoichi Negishi Nobuhito HamanoHinako SatoFumihiko KatagiriKyohei TakatoriYoko Endo-TakahashiYamato KikkawaMotoyoshi Nomizu
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2018 Volume 41 Issue 7 Pages 1107-1111

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Liposomes have been used as targeting carriers for drug delivery systems (DDSs), and the carriers are able to be modified with targeting ligands, such as antibodies and peptides. To evaluate the targetability of DDS carriers modified with a targeting ligand, culture cells expressing the targeting molecules as well as small animals are used. Furthermore, in vitro and in vivo screening analyses must be repeatedly performed. Therefore, it is important to establish an easy and high-precision screening system for targeting carriers. With this aim, we focused that whether this ex vivo system could easily support assessment of interaction between targeting ligand and its receptor under physiological environment and further screen the DDS carrier-modified with targeting moiety. We examined targeting ability via in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo analyses using integrin αvβ3-targeting C16Y-L. For the in vitro analysis, the cellular uptake of C16Y-L was higher than that of control liposomes in colon26 cells. For the ex vivo analysis, we performed an immunohistochemical analysis using colon26 tumor sections. C16Y-L was specifically attached to the tumor sections, as found in the in vitro analysis. Moreover, to evaluate the ex vivoin vivo correlation, we examined the intratumoral localization of C16Y-L. This result showed that C16Y-L was accumulated not only in the tumor tissue but also in the tumor vasculature after the intravenous injection of C16Y-L, suggesting that the ex vivo peptide-modified liposomal analysis was correlated with the in vivo analysis. Thus, the ex vivo peptide-modified liposomal analysis may be an easy and rapid screening system with high-precision and for consideration in in vivo conditions.

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