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The choice of a linker for selective and site-specific control of payload release remains a major goal during drug delivery. The cleavage mechanism of disulfide-based linkers is based on the specific intracellular release of the active payload upon glutathione (GSH) reduction.
As the overall red/ox potential in the human blood is oxidative, disulfide linkages remain intact during circulation. However, intracellularly, and notably inside tumor mass and cancer cells, a reductive potential is prevailing. This discrepancy in GSH concentration allows to develop GSH-responsive materials and to revert the disulfide bond formation selectively in pathological tissues and thus release the active payload.
Iris Biotech presents a selection of pyridyl-disulfide-nitrophenylcarbonate linkers (see also related products).
Selection of pyridyl-disulfide-nitrophenylcarbonate linkers available at Iris Biotech.
The pyridyl disulfide moiety can undergo a disulfide exchange reaction with sulfhydryl groups, e.g. from a biomolecule, to form new disulfide bonds. Thereby, pyridine-2-thione is released, which can be followed spectrophotometrically (λmax = 343 nm) to measure the progress of the reaction. This reaction works over a broad pH range and is also suitable for physiological pH.
The p-nitrophenylcarbonate activating group reacts preferably with amines or other nucleophiles and thus allows further conjugation, e.g. towards the desired drug molecule.
Finally, the p-aminobenzyl moiety acts as self-immolative linkage (SIL) and disintegrates upon a certain trigger, e.g. disulfide reduction, to release the conjugated payload in a traceless manner.
Tunable kinetics of self-immolative drug release.
SILs can be mainly classified into two groups depending on the self-immolative fragmentation process either based on the quinone methide cascade (e.g. 1,6-elimination) or an intramolecular cyclization reaction. In addition, the linker’s chemical composition (e.g. disulfide ethoxycarbonyl (SSE) vs. disulfide benzyloxycarbonyl (SSB)) results in chemically tunable kinetics of the self-immolative cleavage due to different response rate towards GSH, showing higher rates for SSB-based DSILs compared to SSE-based ones. Thus, the choice of the linker allows for fine-tuning of the cleavage speed and payload release.
References:
Disulfide-Based Self-Immolative Linkers and Functional Bioconjugates for Biological Applications; Z. Deng, J. Hu and S. Liu; Macromol Rapid Commun 2020; 41: e1900531. https://doi.org/10.1002/marc.201900531