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Polymeric nanobiotics as a novel treatment for mycobacterial infections.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Batalha, Iris L 
Bernut, Audrey 
Schiebler, Mark 
Ouberai, Myriam M 
Passemar, Charlotte 

Abstract

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) remains a major challenge to global health, made worse by the spread of multi-drug resistance. Currently, the efficacy and safety of treatment is limited by difficulties in achieving and sustaining adequate tissue antibiotic concentrations while limiting systemic drug exposure to tolerable levels. Here we show that nanoparticles generated from a polymer-antibiotic conjugate ('nanobiotics') deliver sustained release of active drug upon hydrolysis in acidic environments, found within Mtb-infected macrophages and granulomas, and can, by encapsulation of a second antibiotic, provide a mechanism of synchronous drug delivery. Nanobiotics are avidly taken up by infected macrophages, enhance killing of intracellular Mtb, and are efficiently delivered to granulomas and extracellular mycobacterial cords in vivo in an infected zebrafish model. We demonstrate that isoniazid (INH)-derived nanobiotics, alone or with additional encapsulation of clofazimine (CFZ), enhance killing of mycobacteria in vitro and in infected zebrafish, supporting the use of nanobiotics for Mtb therapy and indicating that nanoparticles generated from polymer-small molecule conjugates might provide a more general solution to delivering co-ordinated combination chemotherapy.

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Keywords

Antibiotic, Clofazimine, Isoniazid, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Nanoparticles, Polymer-drug conjugate, Zebrafish, Animals, Antitubercular Agents, Clofazimine, Delayed-Action Preparations, Disease Models, Animal, Drug Combinations, Drug Delivery Systems, Humans, Isoniazid, Macrophages, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Nanoparticles, Polymers, Tuberculosis, Zebrafish

Journal Title

J Control Release

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Journal ISSN

0168-3659
1873-4995

Volume Title

314

Publisher

Elsevier BV
Sponsorship
Rosetrees Trust (A870)
Wellcome Trust (107032/Z/15/Z)
Rosetrees Trust Interdisciplinary Prize 2015 Wellcome Trust awards 107032/Z/15/Z and 10/H0305/55 NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre Award MRC AMR Theme award MR/N02995X/1 Marie-Curie IF CFZEBRA 751977