Various drug transporters are widely expressed throughout the intestine and play important roles in absorbing nutrients and drugs,thus providing high quality targets for the design of prodrugs or nanoparticles to faci...Various drug transporters are widely expressed throughout the intestine and play important roles in absorbing nutrients and drugs,thus providing high quality targets for the design of prodrugs or nanoparticles to facilitate oral drug delivery.In particular,intestinal carnitine/organic cation transporter 2(OCTN2)and mono-carboxylate transporter protein 1(MCT1)possess high transport capacities and complementary distributions.Therefore,we outline recent developments in transporter-targeted oral drug delivery with regard to the OCTN2 and MCT1 proteins in this review.First,basic information of the two transporters is reviewed,including their topological structures,characteristics and functions,expression and key features of their substrates.Furthermore,progress in transporter-targeting prodrugs and nanoparticles to increase oral drug delivery is discussed,including improvements in the oral absorption of anti-inflammatory drugs,antiepileptic drugs and anticancer drugs.Finally,the potential of a dual transporter-targeting strategy is discussed.展开更多
Syrosingopine is an anti-hypertensive drug and can cause high intracellular lactate levels and end-product inhibition of lactate dehydrogenase by inhibiting the lactate transporters MCT1 and MCT4.Previous studies have...Syrosingopine is an anti-hypertensive drug and can cause high intracellular lactate levels and end-product inhibition of lactate dehydrogenase by inhibiting the lactate transporters MCT1 and MCT4.Previous studies have shown that syrosingopine plays an essential role in the process of glycolytic blockade,ATP depletion,and cell death in cancer due to high intracellular levels of lactate.展开更多
基金This work was financially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi Province(Nos.2018JJB140325,2018JJB140377)Guangxi Scientific and Technology Base and Talents of Project(Nos.2018AD19035)+2 种基金Talents Project for Cultivating High-level Talent Teams in the Qi Huang Project of Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine(2018002)the specific subject of the dominant discipline construction of Chinese Pharmacy of Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine,Guang Xi Key Laboratory of Translational Medicine for Treating High-incidence Infectious Diseases with Integrative Medicine and School research projects(no.B170021,2018MS003)Scientific Research Projects of Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine(B170021,2018MS003).
文摘Various drug transporters are widely expressed throughout the intestine and play important roles in absorbing nutrients and drugs,thus providing high quality targets for the design of prodrugs or nanoparticles to facilitate oral drug delivery.In particular,intestinal carnitine/organic cation transporter 2(OCTN2)and mono-carboxylate transporter protein 1(MCT1)possess high transport capacities and complementary distributions.Therefore,we outline recent developments in transporter-targeted oral drug delivery with regard to the OCTN2 and MCT1 proteins in this review.First,basic information of the two transporters is reviewed,including their topological structures,characteristics and functions,expression and key features of their substrates.Furthermore,progress in transporter-targeting prodrugs and nanoparticles to increase oral drug delivery is discussed,including improvements in the oral absorption of anti-inflammatory drugs,antiepileptic drugs and anticancer drugs.Finally,the potential of a dual transporter-targeting strategy is discussed.
基金supported in part by research grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.82102696 to JMF)and the National Institutes of Health(USA)(No.CA226303 to T.-C.He)supported by the Mabel Green Myers Research Endowment Fund and The University of Chicago Orthopaedics Alumni Fund.
文摘Syrosingopine is an anti-hypertensive drug and can cause high intracellular lactate levels and end-product inhibition of lactate dehydrogenase by inhibiting the lactate transporters MCT1 and MCT4.Previous studies have shown that syrosingopine plays an essential role in the process of glycolytic blockade,ATP depletion,and cell death in cancer due to high intracellular levels of lactate.