Molecules (Oct 2022)

Theoretical Study on the Aggregation and Adsorption Behaviors of Anticancer Drug Molecules on Graphene/Graphene Oxide Surface

  • Pengyu Gong,
  • Yi Zhou,
  • Hui Li,
  • Jie Zhang,
  • Yuying Wu,
  • Peiru Zheng,
  • Yanyan Jiang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27196742
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 19
p. 6742

Abstract

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Graphene and its derivatives are frequently used in cancer therapy, and there has been widespread interest in improving the therapeutic efficiency of targeted drugs. In this paper, the geometrical structure and electronic effects of anastrozole(Anas), camptothecin(CPT), gefitinib (Gefi), and resveratrol (Res) on graphene and graphene oxide(GO) were investigated by density functional theory (DFT) calculations and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. Meanwhile, we explored and compared the adsorption process between graphene/GO and four drug molecules, as well as the adsorption sites between carriers and payloads. In addition, we calculated the interaction forces between four drug molecules and graphene. We believe that this work will contribute to deepening the understanding of the loading behaviors of anticancer drugs onto nanomaterials and their interaction.

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