Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Pharmacophore hybridisation and nanoscale assembly to discover self-delivering lysosomotropic new-chemical entities for cancer therapy

  • Zhao Ma,
  • Jin Li,
  • Kai Lin,
  • Mythili Ramachandran,
  • Dalin Zhang,
  • Megan Showalter,
  • Cristabelle De Souza,
  • Aaron Lindstrom,
  • Lucas N. Solano,
  • Bei Jia,
  • Shiro Urayama,
  • Yuyou Duan,
  • Oliver Fiehn,
  • Tzu-yin Lin,
  • Minyong Li,
  • Yuanpei Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18399-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Integration of the unique advantages of the fields of drug discovery and drug delivery is invaluable for the advancement of drug development. Here, the authors generate single-drug nanoparticles by hybridising lysomotropic detergents and the bisaminoquinoline-based autophagy inhibitor, and show their therapeutic potential as autophagy-inhibition based combination therapy.