CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Beijing Engineering Research Center for BioNanotechnology, and CAS Key Laboratory for Biological Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, National Center for NanoScience and Technology , No.11 Zhongguancun Beiyitiao, Beijing 100190, P. R. China.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049, P. R. China.
ACS Nano. 2017 Dec 26;11(12):12446-12452. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.7b06483. Epub 2017 Dec 5.
Polymer-based fluorescent nanomaterials have proven to universally image various tumors based on their extremely sharp responsiveness to pH change. Such a property has never been realized in supramolecular systems. We herein design a small molecule (DPP-thiophene-4) that is composed of a diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) core and two alkyl chains terminated with quaternary ammonium. DPP-thiophene-4 can self-assemble into a nonfluorescent nanoassembly when the pH is >7.0 but reversibly disassembles back to fluorescent monomers when the pH is <6.8. Meanwhile, its fluorescence emission increases by 10-fold within a 0.2 pH unit change. Such a fluorogenic nanoassembly can precisely differentiate a number of malignant tumors among normal tissues in vivo due to the slight acidity within tumor microenvironments. Further the nanoassembly shows satisfactory biocompatibility and an effective clearance from the body. Overall, this supramolecular fluorogenic nanoassembly exhibits an immense potential for realizing broad range tumor diagnosis.
基于聚合物的荧光纳米材料已被证明可以根据其对 pH 值变化的极其敏锐的响应来普遍成像各种肿瘤。这种特性在超分子体系中从未实现过。我们在此设计了一种小分子(DPP-噻吩-4),它由二酮吡咯并吡咯(DPP)核心和两个末端带有季铵盐的烷基链组成。当 pH 值>7.0 时,DPP-噻吩-4 可以自组装成非荧光纳米组装体,但当 pH 值<6.8 时,它会可逆地解组装回荧光单体。同时,其荧光发射在 0.2 pH 单位变化内增加了 10 倍。由于肿瘤微环境内的轻微酸度,这种荧光纳米组装体可以在体内精确地区分正常组织中的多种恶性肿瘤。此外,该纳米组装体表现出令人满意的生物相容性和从体内有效清除。总的来说,这种基于超分子的荧光纳米组装体在实现广泛的肿瘤诊断方面具有巨大的潜力。
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