Title
A nanotherapy strategy significantly enhances anticryptosporidial activity of an inhibitor of bifunctional thymidylate synthase-dihydrofolate reductase from Cryptosporidium
Date Issued
15 June 2015
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Mukerjee A.
Iyidogan P.
Castellanos-Gonzalez A.
Cisneros J.
Czyzyk D.
Ranjan A.
Jorgensen W.
Vishwanatha J.
Anderson K.
Centro Médico de la Universidad de Texas
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
Cryptosporidiosis, a gastrointestinal disease caused by protozoans of the genus Cryptosporidium, is a common cause of diarrheal diseases and often fatal in immunocompromised individuals. Bifunctional thymidylate synthase-dihydrofolate reductase (TS-DHFR) from Cryptosporidium hominis (C. hominis) has been a molecular target for inhibitor design. C. hominis TS-DHFR inhibitors with nM potency at a biochemical level have been developed however drug delivery to achieve comparable antiparasitic activity in Cryptosporidium infected cell culture has been a major hurdle for designing effective therapies. Previous mechanistic and structural studies have identified compound 906 as a nM C. hominis TS-DHFR inhibitor in vitro, having μM antiparasitic activity in cell culture. In this work, proof of concept studies are presented using a nanotherapy approach to improve drug delivery and the antiparasitic activity of 906 in cell culture. We utilized PLGA nanoparticles that were loaded with 906 (NP-906) and conjugated with antibodies to the Cryptosporidium specific protein, CP2, on the nanoparticle surface in order to specifically target the parasite. Our results indicate that CP2 labeled NP-906 (CP2-NP-906) reduces the level of parasites by 200-fold in cell culture, while NP-906 resulted in 4.4-fold decrease. Moreover, the anticryptosporidial potency of 906 improved 15 to 78-fold confirming the utility of the antibody conjugated nanoparticles as an effective drug delivery strategy.
Start page
2065
End page
2067
Volume
25
Issue
10
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Bioquímica, Biología molecular
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84937763193
PubMed ID
Source
Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters
ISSN of the container
0960-894X
Sponsor(s)
This work is supported by NIH Grant ( AI083146 ) to K.S.A., Training Grant ( 5T32AI007404-23 ) to D.C., the Paul R. Stalnaker MD Distinguished Professorship to A.C.W. and NIH Grant ( AI44616 ) to W.L.J. We would like to thank InBios International Inc. for their generosity in providing us the CP2 antibodies.
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