Spatially defined peptidomimetics for pain relief and for targeted cancer therapy and diagnostics

Zhao, Junwei (2021) Spatially defined peptidomimetics for pain relief and for targeted cancer therapy and diagnostics, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Chimica, 33 Ciclo. DOI 10.48676/unibo/amsdottorato/9571.
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Abstract

Cancer is a disease that has plagued scientists for decades, and how to treat cancer and its complications are inevitable topics in current scientific research. Cancer pain is a major factor that reduces the quality of life of patients. Therefore, the development of analgesic agents with minimal adverse side effects, especially with low addiction, has attracted more and more attention. Among them, opioid analgesics are widely used to alleviate cancer pain and improve the quality of life of patients with advanced cancer, such as in the palliative therapy. Although peptide drugs are efficient, selective and safe, they have several unignorable disadvantages such as poor biological stability, rapid excretion, difficulty in penetrate blood brain barrier. In order to solve these problems, peptidomimetics were developed by introducing unnatural/modified amino acids, decorated peptide backbone, conformational restrictions and secondary structure mimics in peptide sequence. Compared with peptides, peptidomimetics have improved biological stability, increased bioavailability, high affinity and selectivity for receptor binding, and decreased adverse side effects. As the second part of this thesis, I explored the opportunity to design peptide-functionalized responsive biomaterials for the detection of cancer cell and the selective delivery of cytotoxic drugs. The conjugation of peptides with biomaterials enhanced the stability of the loaded drugs, improved targeted delivery, decreased side effects, and increased bioavailability. The precise and controllable drug delivery platform has profound application prospects in cancer treatment. Grafting specific peptides sequence on the surface of biomaterials can satisfy different drug delivery demands according to the characteristics of both peptides and biomaterials. For example, the introduction of tumor-targeting peptides can guide biomaterials into tumor lesions, and blood-brain barrier (BBB) shuttle peptides can lead biomaterials to penetrate the BBB, etc.

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Tesi di dottorato
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Zhao, Junwei
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Dottorato di ricerca
Ciclo
33
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Parole chiave
peptidomimetics, kappa opioid receptor, ε-turn, analgesics, tumor-targeting, peptide conjugate.
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DOI
10.48676/unibo/amsdottorato/9571
Data di discussione
16 Marzo 2021
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