T807-modified Human Serum Albumin Biomimetic Nanoparticles for Targeted Drug Delivery across the Blood-Brain Barrier.

Gao, Chunhong; Gong, Wei; Yang, Meiyan; Chu, Xiaoyang; Wang, Yuli; Li, Zhiping; Yang, Yang; Gao, Chunsheng

Novel biocompatible Human Serum Albumin (HSA) nanoparticles composed of membrane of erythrocytes (ETm)-coated and DSPE-PEG3400-T807 segments have been designed for sustained drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier (BBB). The nanoparticles have developed by induced albumin self-assembly with glutathione as reducing agent. The chemical, physical and biocompatible properties of the T807/ETm-HSA nanoparticles have been characterized by hydrogen nuclear magnetic resonance, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry, transmission electron microscopy, dynamic light scattering and confocal laser scanning microscopy techniques. The unique targeting properties of the nanoparticles after fabrication with the brain-targeted ligand T807 was demonstrated by their attaching to brain cells as well as their enhanced transport ability to cross the BBB. In a further demonstration of their ability to target brain cells, in vivo living imaging revealed that T807/ETm-HSA nanoparticles accumulated in the mice brain after intravenous injection. The surface modification of ETm/HSA nanoparticles with the brain-targeted T807 demonstrated in this work represents a highly novel and effective strategy to provide efficient brain targeting and shows promise for the future in using modified ETm-coated HSA nanoparticles to penetrate the brain.