한빛사논문, 상위피인용논문
Hyo Sung Jung†#⊥, Jiyou Han‡§⊥, Hu Shi∥⊥, Seyoung Koo†, Hardev Singh†, Hyo-Jin Kim‡, Jonathan L. Sessler*#, Jin Yong Lee*∥, Jong-Hoon Kim*‡, and Jong Seung Kim*†
†Department of Chemistry and ‡Department of Biotechnology, Laboratory of Stem Cells and Tissue Regeneration, College of Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea
§ Department of Biological Sciences, Laboratory of Stem Cell Research and Biotechnology, Hyupsung University, Hwasung-si 18330, Korea
∥ Department of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea
# Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1224, United States
Author Contributions
⊥H.S.J., J.H., and H.S. contributed equally.
*Corresponding Authors
Abstract
A major challenge in photodynamic cancer therapy (PDT) is avoiding PDT-induced hypoxia, which can lead to cancer recurrence and progression through activation of various angiogenic factors and significantly reduce treatment outcomes. Reported here is an acetazolamide (AZ)-conjugated BODIPY photosensitizer (AZ-BPS) designed to mitigate the effects of PDT-based hypoxia by combining the benefits of anti-angiogenesis therapy with PDT. AZ-BPS showed specific affinity to aggressive cancer cells (MDA-MB-231 cells) that overexpress carbonic anhydrase IX (CAIX). It displayed enhanced photocytotoxicity compared to a reference compound, BPS, which is an analogous PDT agent that lacks an acetazolamide unit. AZ-BPS also displayed an enhanced in vivo efficacy in a xenograft mouse tumor regrowth model relative to BPS, an effect attributed to inhibition of tumor angiogenesis by both PDT-induced ROS generation and CAIX knockdown. AZ-BPS was evaluated successfully in clinical samples collected from breast cancer patients. We thus believe that the combined approach described here represents an attractive therapeutic approach to targeting CAIX-overexpressing tumors.
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