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Phototriggered Secretion of Membrane Compartmentalized Bioactive Agents
Hughes, Robert M.,Marvin, Christina M.,Rodgers, Zachary L.,Ding, Song,Oien, Nathan P.,Smith, Weston J.,Lawrence, David S.
supporting information, p. 16080 - 16083 (2016/12/26)
A strategy for the light-activated release of bioactive compounds (BODIPY, colchicine, paclitaxel, and methotrexate) from membrane-enclosed depots is described. We have found that membrane-permeable bioagents can be rendered membrane impermeable by covalent attachment to cobalamin (Cbl) through a photocleavable linker. These Cbl-bioagent conjugates are imprisoned within lipid-enclosed compartments in the dark, as exemplified by their retention in the interior of erythrocytes. Subsequent illumination drives the secretion of the bioactive species from red blood cells. Photorelease is triggered by wavelengths in the red, far-red, and near-IR regions, which can be pre-assigned by affixing a fluorophore with the desired excitation wavelength to the Cbl-bioagent conjugate. Pre-assigned wavelengths allow different biologically active compounds to be specifically and unambiguously photoreleased from common carriers.
Gadolinium texaphyrin-methotrexate conjugates. Towards improved cancer chemotherapeutic agents
Wei, Wen-Hao,Fountain, Mark,Magda, Darren,Wang, Zhong,Lecane, Phil,Mesfin, Mimi,Miles, Dale,Sessler, Jonathan L.
, p. 3290 - 3296 (2007/10/03)
Conjugates between methotrexate (MTX, Matrex, N-[4-[[(2,4-diamino-6- pteridinyl)methyl]methylamino]benzoyl]-L-glutamic acid), an antifolate cancer chemotherapeutic to which resistance is often observed, and motexafin gadolinium (MGd), an experimental agen
Synthesis of Monoamides of Methotrexate from L-Glutamic Acid Monoamide t-Butyl Esters
Antonjuk, David J.,Boadle, Deborah K.,Cheung, H.T.Andrew,Tran, Trung Q.
, p. 1989 - 2004 (2007/10/02)
Analoques of methotrexate (amethopterin) (1) with α- or γ-monoamide functions were synthesized starting with t-butyl L-isoglutamine (12a), t-butyl L-glutamine (22a), or the appropriate N'-alkyl or N'N'-dialkyl analoques (12b-k), (22d), (22k), (22l), and (22m).The corresponding N-benzyloxycarbonyl compounds (11) and/or (21) from which the above L-glutamic acid derivatives were obtained were generally synthesized by mixed-anhydride coupling of N-benzyloxycarbonyl-L-glutamic acid (9) with the appropriate amine, conversion into the t-butyl ester, and chromatographic separation.The resulting α-monoamide γ-t-butyl ester (11) and γ-monoamide α-t-butyl ester (21) are unambiguously distinguished by mass spectrometry and 13C n.m.r. spectroscopy.Factors which affect the γ-amide/α-amide product ratio are discussed.The N-deprotected L-glutamic acid monoamide t-butyl esters (12) or (22) were individually coupled to N-trifluoroacetyl-p-methylaminobenzoic acid, and the resulting α- or γ-monoamide t-butyl esters (13) or (23) of N-(p-methyl(trifluoroacetyl)aminobenzoyl)-L-glutamic acid was hydrolysed.The N-deprotected product, viz. t-butyl N-(p-methylaminobenzoyl)-L-glutamate α- or γ-monoamide (14) or (24) was converted into the appropriate methotrexate-monoamide t-butyl ester (15) or (25), and thence the desired methotrexate-monoamide (16) or (26), by reaction with 2,4-diamino-6-bromomethylpteridine (17) or by the Taylor procedure.Features of the mass and 13C n.m.r. spectra of the intermediates are discussed.
