The invention provides a preparation method of a
rebamipide-polypeptide conjugate and application of the
rebamipide-polypeptide conjugate in
xerophthalmia treatment, and belongs to the field of
medicinal chemistry. The
rebamipide-polypeptide conjugate synthesized by the invention is composed of three modules, namely a
hydrophobic drug rebamipide, a beta-sheet self-
assembly motif and a hydrophilic fragment. The
medicine is connected with the polypeptide through a breakable
disulfide bond. The obtained rebamipide-polypeptide conjugate can be self-assembled in water to form a nano structure, and a
hydrophobic drug is contained in the nano structure. Under the action of
ocular surface reductive
glutathione, the
disulfide bond connected with the
medicine is broken, so that the release of the
medicine is realized. According to the strategy, the
drug is used as a molecular building block for building a delivery carrier of the
drug, the
solubility of the
hydrophobic drug is obviously improved, the precorneal
retention time of the
drug is prolonged, and a better
treatment effect is achieved. The method is simple and convenient in synthesis and high in
repeatability, provides a foundation for application in the fields of
drug delivery,
biomedical engineering and the like, and has a good application prospect.