Polyamidoamine Nanoparticles for the Oral Administration of Antimalarial Drugs

Pharmaceutics

Laura Carol¹  Patricia Urbán¹  Elisabet Martí Coma-Cros¹  Xavier Fernàndez-Busquets¹  Arnau Biosca¹  Joana Marques¹  Paula Pérez¹  Krijn Paaijmans¹  JuanJosé Valle-Delgado²  Michael Delves³  RobertE. Sinden³  Amedea Manfredi⁴  Paolo Ferruti⁴  Elisabetta Ranucci⁴  Lefteris Spanos⁵  Inga Siden-Kiamos⁵  MariaCristina Riera⁶  Diana Berenguer⁶  Matthias Rottmann⁷ 

[1] Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal, Hospital Clínic-Universitat de Barcelona), Rosselló 149-153, ES-08036 Barcelona, Spain;Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems, School of Chemical Engineering, Aalto University, P.O. Box 16300, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland;Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, UK;Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Golgi 19, IT-20133 Milano, Italy;Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, FORTH, N. Plastira 100, 700 13 Heraklion, Greece;Laboratori de Parasitologia, Departament de Microbiologia i Parasitologia Sanitàries, Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Joan XXIII s/n, ES-08028 Barcelona, Spain;Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Socinstrasse 57, CH-4051 Basel, Switzerland;

关键词: Anopheles;    antimalarial drugs;    malaria;    mosquitoes;    nanomedicine;    nanotechnology;    Plasmodium;    polymers;    polyamidoamines;    targeted drug delivery;   

DOI  :  10.3390/pharmaceutics10040225

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Current strategies for the mass administration of antimalarial drugs demand oral formulations to target the asexual Plasmodium stages in the peripheral bloodstream, whereas recommendations for future interventions stress the importance of also targeting the transmission stages of the parasite as it passes between humans and mosquitoes. Orally administered polyamidoamine (PAA) nanoparticles conjugated to chloroquine reached the blood circulation and cured Plasmodium yoelii-infected mice, slightly improving the activity of the free drug and inducing in the animals immunity against malaria. Liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry analysis of affinity chromatography-purified PAA ligands suggested a high adhesiveness of PAAs to Plasmodium falciparum proteins, which might be the mechanism responsible for the preferential binding of PAAs to Plasmodium-infected erythrocytes vs. non-infected red blood cells. The weak antimalarial activity of some PAAs was found to operate through inhibition of parasite invasion, whereas the observed polymer intake by macrophages indicated a potential of PAAs for the treatment of certain coinfections such as Plasmodium and Leishmania. When fluorescein-labeled PAAs were fed to females of the malaria mosquito vectors Anopheles atroparvus and Anopheles gambiae, persistent fluorescence was observed in the midgut and in other insect’s tissues. These results present PAAs as a versatile platform for the encapsulation of orally administered antimalarial drugs and for direct administration of antimalarials to mosquitoes, targeting mosquito stages of Plasmodium.

【 授权许可】

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