Abstract
Abstract The covalent attachments of 5-fluorouracil (5FU) units to poly(ethylene glycol) monomethoxy ether (MeO-PEG) attached through ester, amide, and ether bonds were carried out; three types of linkages were obtained through which 5FU units were attached to MeO-PEG. For the investigation of the release of the 5FU units, the homogeneous hydrolysis was investigated in vitro in the presence and absence of enzymes. Although the rate of release of l-β-carboxyethyl-5FU or 1-β-hydroxyethyl-5FU from the compounds was fast, the release of 5FU itself was slow. In addition, the antitumor activity of these three types of MeO-PEG-bound 5FU unit was tested in vivo by preliminary screening by the National Cancer Institute or by the Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research.
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