Biomimetic, synthetic HDL nanostructures for lymphoma.

Abstract

New therapies that challenge existing paradigms are needed for the treatment of cancer. We report a nanoparticle-enabled therapeutic approach to B-cell lymphoma using synthetic high density lipoprotein nanoparticles (HDL-NPs). HDL-NPs are synthesized using a gold nanoparticle template to control conjugate size and ensure a spherical shape. Like natural HDLs, biomimetic HDL-NPs target scavenger receptor type B-1, a high-affinity HDL receptor expressed by lymphoma cells. Functionally, compared with natural HDL, the gold NP template enables differential manipulation of cellular cholesterol flux in lymphoma cells, promoting cellular cholesterol efflux and limiting cholesterol delivery. This combination of scavenger receptor type B-1 binding and relative cholesterol starvation selectively induces apoptosis. HDL-NP treatment of mice bearing B-cell lymphoma xenografts selectively inhibits B-cell lymphoma growth. As such, HDL-NPs are biofunctional therapeutic agents, whose mechanism of action is enabled by the presence of a synthetic nanotemplate. HDL-NPs are active in B-cell lymphomas and potentially, other malignancies or diseases of pathologic cholesterol accumulation.

• Authors: Shuo Yang, Marina G Damiano, Heng Zhang, Sushant Tripathy, Andrea J Luthi, Jonathan S Rink, Andrey V Ugolkov, Amareshwar T K Singh, Sandeep S Dave, Leo I Gordon, C Shad Thaxton
• Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A) Vol. 110 Issue 7 Pg. 2511-6 (Feb 12 2013) ISSN: 1091-6490 [Electronic] United States
• PMID: 23345442 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)

Chemical References

• Annexin A5
• Lipoproteins, HDL
• Scavenger Receptors, Class B
• Fluorescein-5-isothiocyanate

Topics

• Animals
• Annexin A5
• Apoptosis (physiology)
• Biomimetics (methods)
• Blotting, Western
• Fluorescein-5-isothiocyanate
• Humans
• Immunoblotting
• Jurkat Cells
• Lipoproteins, HDL (metabolism, therapeutic use)
• Lymphoma, B-Cell (drug therapy)
• Mass Spectrometry
• Metal Nanoparticles (therapeutic use)
• Mice
• Microscopy, Electron, Transmission
• Scavenger Receptors, Class B (metabolism)