• Yulia S. Bortnevskaya
  • Nikita A. Shiryaev
  • Nikita S. Zakharov
  • Oleg O. Kitoroage
  • Margarita A. Gradova
  • Natalia Yu. Karpechenko
  • Alexander S. Novikov
  • Elena D. Nikolskaya
  • Mariia R. Mollaeva
  • Nikita G. Yabbarov
  • Natal’ya A. Bragina
  • Kseniya A. Zhdanova

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) in oncology is characterized by low invasiveness, minimal side effects, and little tissue scarring. Increasing the selectivity of PDT agents toward a cellular target is a new approach intended to improve this method. This study is devoted to the design and synthesis of a new conjugate based on meso-arylporphyrin with a low-molecular-weight tyrosine kinase inhibitor, Erlotinib. A nano-formulation based on Pluronic F127 micelles was obtained and characterized. The photophysical and photochemical properties and biological activity of the studied compounds and their nano-formulation were studied. A significant, 20-40-fold difference between the dark and photoinduced activity was achieved for the conjugate nanomicelles. After irradiation, the studied conjugate nanomicelles were 1.8 times more toxic toward the EGFR-overexpressing cell line MDA-MB-231 compared to the conditionally normal NKE cells. The IC50 was 0.073 ± 0.014 μM for the MDA-MB-231 cell line and 0.13 ± 0.018 μM for NKE cells after irradiation for the target conjugate nanomicelles.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1284
JournalPharmaceutics
Volume15
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 19 Apr 2023

    Research areas

  • PDT, Pluronic F127, antitumor efficacy, conjugates, erlotinib, meso-arylporphyrins, nano-formulation, polymer nanomicelles, porphyrin metal complexes

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