Incorporation of photosenzitizer hypericin into synthetic lipid-based nano-particles for drug delivery and large unilamellar vesicles with different content of cholesterol

Jaroslava Joniova; Ludmila Blascakova; Daniel Jancura; Zuzana Nadova; Franck Sureau; Pavol Miskovsky

doi:10.1117/12.2060672

27 August 2014 Incorporation of photosenzitizer hypericin into synthetic lipid-based nano-particles for drug delivery and large unilamellar vesicles with different content of cholesterol

Jaroslava Joniova, Ludmila Blascakova, Daniel Jancura, Zuzana Nadova, Franck Sureau, Pavol Miskovsky

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Proceedings Volume 9166, Biosensing and Nanomedicine VII; 916604 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2060672
Event: SPIE NanoScience + Engineering, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Low-density lipoproteins (LDL) and high-density lipoproteins (HDL) are attractive natural occurring vehicles for drug delivery and targeting to cancer tissues. The capacity of both types of the lipoproteins to bind hydrophobic drugs and their functionality as drug carriers have been examined in several studies and it has been also shown that mixing of anticancer drugs with LDL or HDL before administration led to an increase of cytotoxic effects of the drugs in the comparison when the drugs were administered alone. However, a difficult isolation of the lipoproteins in large quantity from a biological organism as well as a variability of the composition and size of these molecules makes practical application of LDL and HDL as drug delivery systems quite complicated. Synthetic LDL and HDL and large unilamellar vesicles (LUV) are potentially suitable candidates to substitute the native lipoproteins for targeted and effective drug delivery. In this work, we have studied process of an association of potent photosensitizer hypericin (Hyp) with synthetic lipid-based nano-particles (sLNP) and large unilamellar vesicles (LUV) containing various amount of cholesterol. Cholesterol is one of the main components of both LDL and HDL particles and its presence in biological membranes is known to be a determining factor for membrane properties. It was found that the behavior of Hyp incorporation into sLNP particles with diameter ca ~ 90 nm is qualitatively very similar to that of Hyp incorporation into LDL (diameter ca. 22 nm) and these particles are able to enter U-87 MG cells by endocytosis. The presence of cholesterol in LUV influences the capacity of these vesicles to incorporate Hyp into their structure.

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Jaroslava Joniova, Ludmila Blascakova, Daniel Jancura, Zuzana Nadova, Franck Sureau, and Pavol Miskovsky "Incorporation of photosenzitizer hypericin into synthetic lipid-based nano-particles for drug delivery and large unilamellar vesicles with different content of cholesterol", Proc. SPIE 9166, Biosensing and Nanomedicine VII, 916604 (27 August 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2060672

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