Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology, Soochow University , Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China.
Departments of Radiology and Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison , Madison, Wisconsin 53705, United States.
ACS Nano. 2017 Sep 26;11(9):9103-9111. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.7b03857. Epub 2017 Sep 5.
Developing tumor-homing nanoparticles with integrated diagnostic and therapeutic functions, and meanwhile could be rapidly excreted from the body, would be of great interest to realize imaging-guided precision treatment of cancer. In this study, an ultrasmall coordination polymer nanodot (CPN) based on the coordination between tungsten ions (W) and gallic acid (W-GA) was developed via a simple method. After polyethylene glycol (PEG) modification, PEGylated W-GA (W-GA-PEG) CPNs with an ultrasmall hydrodynamic diameter of 5 nm were rather stable in various physiological solutions. Without the need of chelator molecules, W-GA-PEG CPNs could be efficiently labeled with radioisotope Cu, enabling positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, which reveals efficient tumor accumulation and rapid renal clearance of W-GA-PEG CPNs upon intravenous injection. Utilizing the radio-sensitizing function of tungsten with strong X-ray absorption, such W-GA-PEG CPNs were able to greatly enhance the efficacy of cancer radiotherapy in inhibiting the tumor growth. With fast clearance and little long-term body retention, those W-GA-PEG CPNs exhibited no appreciable in vivo toxicity. This study presents a type of CPNs with excellent imaging and therapeutic abilities as well as rapid renal clearance behavior, promising for further clinic translation.
开发具有集成诊断和治疗功能且能快速从体内排出的肿瘤归巢纳米粒子,对于实现癌症的成像引导精准治疗将具有重要意义。在本研究中,通过一种简单的方法开发了一种基于钨离子(W)和没食子酸(GA)之间配位的超小配位聚合物纳米点(CPN)。经过聚乙二醇(PEG)修饰后,具有超小水动力直径 5nm 的 PEG 化 W-GA(W-GA-PEG)CPN 在各种生理溶液中相当稳定。无需螯合剂分子,W-GA-PEG CPN 可以有效地标记放射性同位素 Cu,实现正电子发射断层扫描(PET)成像,这表明 W-GA-PEG CPN 静脉注射后能够有效地在肿瘤中积累,并迅速经肾脏清除。利用钨具有很强的 X 射线吸收能力的放射增敏作用,这种 W-GA-PEG CPN 能够大大提高癌症放射治疗抑制肿瘤生长的效果。由于快速清除和体内长期滞留少,这些 W-GA-PEG CPN 表现出没有明显的体内毒性。本研究提供了一种具有优异的成像和治疗能力以及快速肾脏清除行为的 CPN,有望进一步临床转化。