Nano Select
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2021
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IF 0
Chenglong Mu,Xiaodan Sun,Kai Yan
Phototherapy is gradually becoming a primary technique for treating tumors due to increased efficacy and less side effects. It largely depends on the photosensitizers. Nevertheless, most of photosensitizers show poor stability, how to encapsulate or load them, especially multiple ones, for effective delivery is of paramount importance. To address the challenge, a hyperbranched polymer was prepared by a reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization, which is composed of 2,2,3,3-Tetrafluoropropyl methacrylate (TFPMA), bis(2-methacryloyl)oxyethyl disulfide (DSDMA) and poly(oligo ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate (PEGMA). Benefiting from hydrophobic performance of fluorinated segments, this hyperbranched polymers can load hydrophobic IR780 (9%) and Ce6 (12%) due to self-assembly and hydrophobic-hydrophobic interaction. The final formed composite micelles showed good water dispersity, well biocompatibility, and strong stability. Remarkably, they had good photodynamic and photothemal abilities, enabling them to synergistically induce tumor cell apoptosis by oxidative damage and thermal ablation. This work offers a promising composites and strategy for loading photosensitizers stably and effectively towards cancer therapy.
研究领域:
生物医学工程
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药剂学
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肿瘤学
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ACS Applied Bio Materials
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2018
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IF 0
Yu Liu,Lei Ding,Dandan Wang,Min Lin,Haizhu Sun,Hao Zhang,Hongchen Sun,Bai Yang
Photothermal therapy (PTT) is successfully integrated with photodynamic therapy (PDT) to effectively improve the curative effect of cancer. The therapy nanoplatform is based on hollow Pd (H–Pd) nanospheres conjugated with Ce6 (Pd@Ce6). H–Pd nanospheres and Ce6 work as PTT and PDT agents, respectively. The H–Pd nanospheres with tunable surface plasmon resonance (SPR) properties effectively absorb light with near-infrared (NIR) emission and then convert the light to heat, selectively killing tumor cells. The experimental results show that H–Pd nanospheres with a size of 90 nm have the strongest absorbance and exhibit a high photothermal conversion efficiency (η) of 70%. Moreover, the absorption intensity and photothermal properties of H–Pd nanospheres do not show any decrease after 6 months of storage at room temperature, showing their excellent stability. Furthermore, after Ce6 is conjugated onto the surface of H–Pd nanospheres using polyethylenimine (PEI) as a linker, Pd@Ce6 not only exhibits the capabilities of photothermal conversion but also generates singlet oxygen (1O2), realizing the integration of PDT and PTT. In cell experiments, 86% of HeLa cells are killed after Pd@Ce6 is simultaneously irradiated with 660 and 808 nm lasers for 5 min with a power of 0.5 and 2 W cm–2, respectively. This successful combination of PTT with PDT to eradicate cancer provides a noninvasive and harmless way for cancer therapy.
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生物医学工程
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肿瘤学
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International Journal of Nanomedicine
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2025
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IF 6.5
Wentao Xu,Jiajia Zheng,Jiaqi Zhang,Houhui Shi,Weili Peng,Yang Liu,Guodong Feng,Yuguang Wang,Yi-Jun Liang,Jun Chen
Background Liver cancer is one of the most prevalent cancers globally, with approximately 90% of primary liver cancers being hepatocellular carcinomas (HCC). However, current systemic treatment options (whether monotherapy or combination therapy) are limited and offer only modest survival benefits. The effectiveness of a drug is largely determined by its concentration at the target site. Therefore, an effective drug delivery system must enhance drug accumulation at the target site, enable selective drug release there, and facilitate escape from lysosomes.Methods cRGD-Lipo@Ce6/DOX was prepared by modifying c(RGDyK) onto the surface of drug-loaded liposomes containing Chlorin e6 (Ce6) and doxorubicin (DOX) through an amide reaction. The targeting capability and uptake mechanism of cRGD-Lipo@Ce6/DOX for HCC were analyzed using flow cytometry. To investigate drug release mechanisms and changes in subcellular distribution following ultrasound stimulation, further studies were conducted. The therapeutic efficacy and biosafety of this dual-modality therapy were then evaluated in an HCC subcutaneous tumor-bearing mouse model.Results The prepared nanocomplex exhibits a surface charge of −9.91 ± 2.94 mV and an apparent size of 118.07 ± 1.46 nm. Modification of the RGD cyclic peptide on the surface of the drug-carrying liposomes enhanced the targeting and penetration efficiency for HCC. In vitro experiments on drug uptake mechanisms and release demonstrated that reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated by sonodynamic therapy (SDT) promote effective drug release from the carrier into the non-lysosomal region. The combined SDT and chemotherapy treatment achieved a 94% tumor inhibition rate and showed excellent biosafety in HCC subcutaneous tumor-bearing mice.Conclusion Therefore, the effectiveness of the combination treatment strategy utilizing SDT in conjunction with chemotherapy provides additional treatment options for patients with HCC.
研究领域:
肿瘤学
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药剂学
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生物医学工程
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PubMed
高影响因子
MATERIALS & DESIGN
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2023
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IF 8.4
Bo Chen,Linrui Cai,Rangrang Fan,Min Mu,Di Chuan,Yangmei Ren,Haifeng Chen,Gang Guo
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) as emerging phototherapy has attracted extensive attention in cancer therapy. However, the overexpressed glutathione (GSH) and hypoxic conditions of the tumor microenvironment (TME) sevely limit the therapeutic efficiency of PDT. Herein, we design a multifunctional nanoplatform (CBDM) for cancer therapy consisting of photosensitizer (Ce6), bovine serum albumin (BSA), and polydopamine-manganese dioxide (MnO 2 ) nanocomplex, which is simultaneously modified by nucleolin-targeting AS1411 aptamer. This MnO 2 -based nanoplatform ameliorates tumor hypoxia and promotes oxygen production via the reaction between MnO 2 and endogenous H 2 O 2 and acid H + in the TME. Besides, this biocompatibility nanoplatform exhibits an augmented PDT effect and high photothermal conversion efficiency under 808 nm laser irradiation. Importantly, the MnO 2 -based nanoplatform achieves a significant in vivo synergistic therapeutic effect and fights against liver metastasis of breast cancer. As a result, the excellent biocompatibility, especially the superior anticancer efficacy, and suppression of tumor metastasis make the MnO 2 -based nanoplatform a promising candidate for cancer therapy.
研究领域:
癌症治疗
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纳米医学
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材料科学
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生物医学工程
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高影响因子
Nanoscale
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2014
·Vol. 7
·期 6
·2433-2441
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IF 6.739
Yongkui Xu,Ruoyu He,Dongdong Lin,Minbiao Ji,Jiyao Chen
A new method to image drug release from drug–nanoparticle composites in living cells was established. The composites of silica coated gold nanorods (AuNR@SiO2) and chlorine e6 (Ce6) photosensitizers (AuNR@SiO2–Ce6) were formed by electrostatic force with a Ce6 loading efficiency of 80%. The strong resonance absorptions of AuNR@SiO2–Ce6 in the near-infrared (NIR) region enabled the effective release of Ce6 from AuNR@SiO2–Ce6 by 780 nm CW laser irradiation. The 780 nm laser beam was applied to not only control the releasing amount of Ce6 from cellular AuNR@SiO2–Ce6 by adjusting the irradiation dose (time), but also to spatially confine the Ce6 release in cells by focusing the laser beam on the target sites. Furthermore, the fluorescence lifetime of Ce6 was found to change drastically from 0.9 ns in the AuNR@SiO2–Ce6 complex to 6 ns after release, and therefore fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) was introduced to image the photo-induced Ce6 release in living cells. Finally, the controllable killing effect of photodynamic cancer therapy (PDT) using AuNR@SiO2–Ce6 was demonstrated by changing the released amount of Ce6, which indicates that AuNR@SiO2–Ce6 is promising for targeted tumour PDT.
研究领域:
生物医学工程
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纳米医学
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细胞生物学
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高影响因子
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
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2022
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IF 5.436
Yulin Xie,Man Wang,Qianqian Sun,Dongmei Wang,Shuiping Luo,Chunxia Li
Combined photothermal/photodynamic therapy is a promising strategy to achieve an enhanced anticancer effect. However, hypoxia is one of the representative characteristics of the microenvironment of solid tumors, which not only attenuates the therapeutic effects but also promotes tumor invasion and metastasis. Herein, a PtBi-β-CD-Ce6 nanoplatform for the generation of sustained O2 was constructed for more effective tumor therapy. In detail, the catalase (CAT)-like nanozyme, PtBi, which could decompose H2O2 to produce O2, was modified with β-cyclodextrin (β-CD). O2 would be converted into 1O2 by PtBi-β-CD-Ce6 for enhanced photodynamic therapy (PDT) under 650 nm laser irradiation. In addition, by reason of excellent absorption in the near-infrared-II (NIR-II) region, PtBi-β-CD-Ce6 was used for photoacoustic imaging (PA) and photothermal imaging (PT)-guided photothermal therapy (PTT) in the NIR-II biowindow. Furthermore, PtBi-β-CD-Ce6 could be elected to serve as a contrast agent for X-ray computed tomography (CT) imaging due to the apparent X-ray attenuation capability of the Pt and Bi elements themselves. Therefore, by integrating the advantages of overcoming the hypoxia function and photothermal effect into a single nanoplatform, PtBi-β-CD-Ce6 showed an immense possibility in multimodal imaging-guided combined PDT/PTT.
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生物医学工程
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肿瘤学
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纳米医学
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高影响因子
Small
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2018
·Vol. 14
·期 52
·1802994
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IF 9.598
Xu Hu,Hailong Tian,Wei Jiang,Aixin Song,Zhonghao Li,Yuxia Luan
Phototherapy as a promising cancer diagnostic and therapeutic strategy has aroused extensive attention. However, single-wavelength near-infrared (NIR) light–triggered combinational treatment of photothermal therapy (PTT) and photodynamic therapy (PDT) is still a great challenge. Herein, a multifunctional micelle activated by a single-wavelength laser for simultaneous PTT and PDT as well as fluorescence imaging is developed. Briefly, new indocyanine green (IR820) is conjugated to d -α-tocopheryl polyethylene glycol 1000 succinate (TPGS) via the linker 6-aminocaproic acid, and then, chlorin e6 (Ce6) is encapsulated into the micelles formed by TPGS–IR820 conjugates to fabricate TPGS–IR820/Ce6 micelles. As the well-designed TPGS–IR820 conjugate shares a similar peak absorption wavelength with Ce6, this micelle can be applied with a single NIR laser (660 nm). The stable micelles exhibit excellent photothermal conversion efficiency in vitro and in vivo as well as high singlet oxygen generation capacity in tumor cells. After efficient cellular internalization, the as-prepared micelles display outstanding anticancer activity upon single NIR laser irradiation in vitro and in vivo. Furthermore, TPGS–IR820/Ce6 micelles show negligible systemic toxicity. The highly safe and effective TPGS–IR820/Ce6 micelles can offer an innovative strategy to construct single NIR light–induced PTT and PDT combined phototherapy nanoplatforms via suitable modification of organic phototherapeutic agents.
研究领域:
癌症研究
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诊疗学
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材料科学
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生物医学工程
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高影响因子
JOURNAL OF CONTROLLED RELEASE
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2024
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IF 10.5
Yingying Xu,Liu Yang,Chengyan Wang,Weiming Sun,Yijing Zheng,Beiwei Ou,Lixian Wu,Leilei Shi,Xi Lin,Wei Chen
Oral cancer is a disease with high morbidity and mortality worldwide and greatly impacts the quality of life, especially in patients with advanced stages. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is one of the most effective clinical treatments for oral cancers. However, most clinically applied photosensitizers have several deficiencies, including oxygen dependence, poor aqueous solubility, and a lack of tumor-targeting ability. Herein, the carrier-free multifunctional Sorafenib (Sor), chlorin e6 (Ce6), and Fe 3+ self-assembly co-delivery nanoparticles (Sor-Ce6 NPs) were constructed via combining a ferroptosis inducer Sor and a photosensitizer Ce6 for synergetic therapy. The as-synthesized Sor-Ce6 NPs presented excellent colloidal stability and water dispersity with good in vivo tumor-targeting ability. More significantly, the low dose of Sor-Ce6 NPs had little dark toxicity but produced significantly enhanced ROS and supplied O 2 sustainably to increase phototoxicity through ferroptosis pathway. Notably, the Sor-Ce6 NPs showed significantly higher in vitro and in vivo anti-tumor efficacy than the Sor/Ce6 mixture due to the improvement of cellular uptake and the incorporation of foreign Fe ions in the system, which also confer the T 1 magnetic resonance-guided imaging ability to the formed Sor-Ce6 NPs. Our study demonstrates a promising self-assembled strategy for overcoming hypoxia-related PDT resistance for oral cancer treatment.
研究领域:
癌症治疗
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纳米技术
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药学
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生物医学工程
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分子生物学
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PubMed
高影响因子
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2019
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IF 8.456
Zhongxi Xie,Shuang Liang,Xuechao Cai,Binbin Ding,Shanshan Huang,Zhiyao Hou,Ping’an Ma,Ziyong Cheng,Jun Lin
Hypoxia and overexpression of glutathione (GSH) are typical characteristics of the tumor microenvironment, which severely hinders cancer treatments. Here, we design a novel biodegradable therapeutic system, O2–Cu/ZIF-8@Ce6/ZIF-8@F127 (OCZCF), to simultaneously achieve GSH depletion and O2-enhanced combination therapy. Notably, the doped Cu2+ doubles the O2 storage capacity of the ZIF-8 matrix, which makes OCZCF an excellent pH-sensitive O2 reservoir for conquering tumor hypoxia, enhancing the photodynamic therapy (PDT) efficiency of chlorin e6 (Ce6) under 650 nm laser irradiation. Moreover, the released Cu2+ can act as a smart reactive oxygen species protector by consuming intracellular GSH. The byproduct Cu+ will undergo highly efficient Fenton-like reaction to achieve chemodynamic therapy (CDT) in the presence of abundant H2O2. The accompanying O2 will further alleviate hypoxia. The in vitro and in vivo experimental data indicate that OCZCF could cause remarkable tumor inhibition through enhanced synergetic PDT and CDT, which may open up a new path for cancer therapy.
研究领域:
癌症研究
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纳米技术
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生物医学工程
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药学
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高影响因子
NPG Asia Materials
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2017
·Vol. 9
·期 5
·e383
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IF 9.157
Yin Ting,Zhang Qian,Wu Haigang,Gao Guo,Shapter Joseph G,Shen Yulan,He Qiaozhi,Huang Peng,Qi Wen,Cui Daxiang
Effectively prolonging the residence time of nanoprobes in the tumor region and reducing the accumulation of nanoprobes in the vital organs (for example, lung, liver and spleen) is crucial for high-efficiency photodynamic therapy (PDT) of cancer. Herein, we systematically report an ultra-small and highly stable nanoplatform with diameters of 4, 8 and 13 nm that exhibited excellent photodynamic therapeutic efficacy using Fe 3 O 4 @polymer-NPO/PEG-Glc@Ce6 nanoprobes. Based on the small size effect, the nanoprobes displayed lower cytotoxicity and excellent biocompatibility. Owing to the synergistic virtues of markedly active targeting and intrinsic small size effect, the Fe 3 O 4 @P-NPO/PEG-Glc@Ce6 nanoprobes can effectively prolong their residence time in the tumor region and reduce accumulation in the normal organs. Benefitting from the small size effect, the synthesized Fe 3 O 4 @P-NPO/PEG-Glc@Ce6 nanoprobes exhibited excellent tumor-targeting capability and photodynamic therapeutic efficacy by inhibiting the growth of tumors in mice under visible red light irradiation with a relatively lower power. The successful application of the small size effect in Fe 3 O 4 @P-NPO/PEG-Glc@Ce6 nanoprobes to significantly improve the PDT efficiency in our strategy suggests new building blocks for PDT of tumors and paves a new way for clinical therapies and translation in the near future.
研究领域:
纳米医学
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癌症治疗
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材料科学
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高影响因子
TALANTA
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2023
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IF 6.1
Lin Zou,Yao Zhang,Nihad Cheraga,Oluwatosin David Abodunrin,Kai-Yun Qu,Li Qiao,Yu-Qing Ma,Li-Juan Chen,Ning-Ping Huang
Recently, photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been considered as a new strategy for atherosclerosis treatment. Targeted delivery of photosensitizer could significantly reduce its toxicity and enhance its phototherapeutic efficiency. CD68 is an antibody that can be conjugated to nano-drug delivery systems to actively target plaque sites, owing to its specific binding to CD68 receptors that are highly expressed on the surfaces of macrophage-derived foam cells. Liposomes are very popular nanocarriers due to their ability to encapsulate a wide range of therapeutic compounds including drugs, microRNAs and photosensitizers, and their ability to be surface-modified with targeting moieties leading to the development of nanocarriers with an improved targeted ability. Hence, we designed a Ce6-loaded liposomes using the film dispersion method, followed by the conjugation of CD68 antibody on the liposomal surface through a covalent crosslinking reaction, forming CD68-modified Ce6-loaded liposomes (CD68-Ce6-mediated liposomes). Flow cytometry results indicated that Ce6-containing liposomes were more effective in promoting intracellular uptake after laser irradiation. Furthermore, CD68-modified liposomes significantly strengthened the cellular recognization and thus internalization. Different cell lines have been incubated with the liposomes, and the results showed that CD68-Ce6-mediated liposomes had no significant cytotoxicity to coronary artery endothelial cells (HCAEC) under selected conditions. Interestingly, they promoted autophagy in foam cells through the increase in LC3-Ⅰ, LC3-Ⅱ expression and the decrease in p62 expression, and restrained the migration of mouse aortic vascular smooth muscle cells (MOVAS) in vitro. Moreover, the enhancement of atherosclerotic plaque stability and the reduction in the cholesterol content by CD68-Ce6-mediated liposomes were dependent on transient reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated under laser irradiation. In summary, we demonstrated that CD68-Ce6-mediated liposomes, as a photosensitizer nano-drug delivery system, have an inhibitory effect on MOVAS migration and a promotion of cholesterol efflux in foam cells, and thereby, represent promising nanocarriers for atherosclerosis photodynamic therapy.
研究领域:
药理学
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纳米技术
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心血管疾病
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治疗学
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PubMed
高影响因子
Journal of Materials Chemistry B
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2021
·Vol. 9
·期 17
·3677-3688
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IF 6.331
Lei Zhang,Ruihao Yang,Honglian Yu,Zhigang Xu,Yuejun Kang,Hongjuan Cui,Peng Xue
Silk fibroin (SF), derived from Bombyx mori, is a category of fibrous protein with outstanding potential for applications in the biomedical and biotechnological fields. In spite of its many advantageous properties, the exploration of SF as a versatile nanodrug precursor for tumor therapy has still been restricted in recent years. Herein, a multifunctional SF-derived nanoplatform was facilely developed via encapsulating the photosensitizer chlorin e6 (Ce6) into MnO2-capped SF nanoparticles (NPs). SF@MnO2 nanocarriers were synthesized through a surface crystallization technique, using SF as a reductant and sacrificial template. Afterwards, Ce6 was covalently incorporated into the loose structure of the SF@MnO2 nanocarrier on the basis of adsorption to abundant peptide-binding sites. To modulate the tumor microenvironment (TME), SF@MnO2/Ce6 (SMC) NPs were capable of catalyzing the decomposition of H2O2 into O2, which can be converted into cytotoxic reactive oxygen species (ROS) during photodynamic therapy (PDT). Moreover, the MnO2 component was able to oxidize intracellular glutathione (GSH) into non-reducing glutathione disulfide (GSSG), and the consumption of GSH could significantly protect the local ROS from being reduced, which further augmented the therapeutic outcome of PDT. Via another angle, SMC NPs can produce strong hyperthermia under near-infrared (NIR) light activation, which was highly desirable for efficient photothermal therapy (PTT). Both in vitro and in vivo studies demonstrated the intense tumor inhibitory effects as a result of augmented PTT/PDT mediated by SMC NPs. We believe that this study may provide useful insights for employing SF-based nanocomposites for more medical applications in the near future.
研究领域:
生物医学工程
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纳米医学
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癌症治疗
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材料科学
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DOI
PubMed
高影响因子
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