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Published on: December 23, 2016
Stimulus-cleavable chemistry in the field of controlled drug delivery
Yufei Xue1, Hua Bai2, Bo Peng3
1Frontiers Science Center for Flexible Electronics, Xi'an Institute of Flexible Electronics (IFE) and Xi'an Institute of Biomedical Materials & Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 127 West Youyi Road, Xi'an 710072, China. iambpeng@nwpu.edu.cn iamlli@nwpu.edu.cn provost@nwpu.edu.cn and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia and Drug Delivery, Disposition and Dynamics, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia. nicolas.voelcker@monash.edu.
Abstract:
Stimulus-cleavable nanoscale drug delivery systems are receiving significant attention owing to their capability of achieving exquisite control over drug release via the exposure to specific stimuli. Central to the construction of such systems is the integration of cleavable linkers showing susceptibility to one stimulus or several stimuli with drugs, prodrugs or fluorogenic probes on the one hand, and nanocarriers on the other hand. This review summarises recent advances in stimulus-cleavable linkers from various research areas and the corresponding mechanisms of linker cleavage and biological applications. The feasibility of extending their applications to the majority of nanoscale drug carriers including nanomaterials, polymers and antibodies are further highlighted and discussed. This review also provides general design guidelines to incorporate stimulus-cleavable linkers into nanocarrier-based drug delivery systems, which will hopefully spark new ideas and applications.
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