An efficient mechanism-based tumor-targeting drug delivery system, based on tumor- specific vitamin-receptor mediated endocytosis, has been developed. The tumor-targeting drug delivery system is a conjugate of a tumor-targeting molecule (biotin: vitamin H or vitamin B-7), a mechanism-based self-immolative linker and a second-generation taxoid (SB- T-1214) as the cytotoxic agent. This conjugate (1) is designed to be (i) specific to the ...
[Pinto Gomes, Cristiano; Metz, Alexander; Bats, Jan W.; Gohlke, Holger; Goebel, Michael W. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2012 , # 17 p. 3270 - 3277]