Investigating a Dextrin-Phospholipase A2 Conjugate as a Trigger for Polymer Enzyme Liposome Therapy (PELT)

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Recent research has demonstrated the potential of nanosized delivery systems for routine use in many diseases, eg cancer, viral diseases and rheumatoid arthritis [1,2], due to an improved patient efficacy and convenience. Despite the clinical advantages of liposomal anticancer drugs such as Doxil® (reduced cardiotoxicity, prolonged drug circulation time and tumour targeting by the EPR effect), the relatively slow release of encapsulated drug at the target site limits optimal therapeutic activity [3]. Therefore, we have developed a strategy for triggering the release of drugs encapsulated in liposomes called "polymer enzyme liposome therapy" (PELT) [4]. PELT utilises a polymer-bound enzyme to trigger the release of drug encapsulated within a liposome [5].Here, we wish to undertake a neutron study to fully characterise the structure of this liposome-polymer-enzyme complex.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24068021
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24068021
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Creator Professor Peter Griffiths
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-05-25T08:16:19Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-05-27T08:38:53Z