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Improved stability and pharmacokinetics of wogonin through loading into PASylated ferritin
Bingyan Yang1, Yixin Dong1, Zicheng Xu2
1Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab for the Chemistry and Utilization of Agro-Forest Biomass, College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, PR China.
Abstract:
Wogonin (Wog) plays an important role in human diseases, especially cancer and inflammatory diseases, but its poor solubility, unstable metabolism and low bioavailability greatly limit its application in biomedical fields. Therefore, we developed a temperature-dependent method to encapsulate wogonin into a novel ferritin-based nanocarrier. To improve the loading capacity and stability, the human H chain ferritin (HFtn) was functionalized with a repetitive polypeptide sequence composed of proline (Pro), alanine (Ala), and serine (Ser) in different residues lengths (PAS10 and PAS30). Wogonin loading and release studies demonstrated that the encapsulation efficiency and stability of the PASylated nanocarriers were significantly higher than those of the wild type. PAS-HFtn-Wog exhibited enhanced cytotoxicity to MCF-7 breast cancer cells and HepG2 liver cancer cells. Notably, the PASylated HFtn, especially PAS30-HFtn greatly prolonged the pharmacokinetics of wogonin in the mice bloodstream. Therefore, wogonin-loaded PAS-HFtn may be a promising drug candidate for cancer therapy.
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