Kinetic limitations of cooperativity based drug delivery systems

Details Kinetic limitations of cooperativity based drug delivery systems Kinetic limitations of cooperativity based drug delivery systems

2007-08-17

arxiv.org/abs/0708.2452v3

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 4 figures, v3: minor revisions

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.158102

We study theoretically a novel drug delivery system that utilizes the overexpression of certain proteins in cancerous cells for cell specific chemotherapy. The system consists of dendrimers conjugated with "keys" (ex: folic acid) which "key-lock" bind to particular cell membrane proteins (ex: folate receptor). The increased concentration of "locks" on the surface leads to a longer residence time for the dendrimer and greater incorporation into the cell. Cooperative binding of the nanocomplexes leads to an enhancement of cell specificity. However, both our theory and detailed analysis of in-vitro experiments indicate that the degree of cooperativity is kinetically limited. We demonstrate that cooperativity and hence the specificity to particular cell type can be increased by making the strength of individual bonds weaker, and suggest a particular implementation of this idea. The implications of the work for optimizing the design of drug delivery vehicles are discussed.

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