The United Innovation of Mengchao Hepatobiliary Technology Key Laboratory of Fujian Province , Mengchao Hepatobiliary Hospital of Fujian Medical University , Fuzhou 350025 , P. R. China.
The Liver Center of Fujian Province , Fujian Medical University , Fuzhou 350025 , P. R. China.
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2018 Jul 5;10(26):21909-21919. doi: 10.1021/acsami.8b06491. Epub 2018 Jun 21.
The tumor hypoxic environment as well as photodynamic therapy (PDT)-induced hypoxia could severely limit the therapeutic efficacy of traditional PDT. Fortunately, the smart integration of hypoxia-responsive drug delivery system with PDT might be a promising strategy to enhance the PDT efficiency that is hindered by the hypoxic environment. Herein, a novel azobenzene (AZO) containing conjugated polymers (CPs)-based nanocarriers (CPs-CPT-Ce6 NPs) was constructed for the combination of PDT with chemotherapy, as well as to enhance the hypoxia-responsive drug release by light. The conjugated polymer chains, used as a matrix to prepare the CPs-CPT-Ce6 NPs, were beneficial for loading hydrophobic photosensitizers and chemotherapy drugs, to improve their cellular uptake. Moreover, the AZO group (-N═N-) in CPs, which can be reduced and cleaved by azoreductase (a typical biomarker of hypoxia) under the hypoxic environment of tumor cells, acts as the hypoxia-responsive linker component. Upon laser irradiation, the CPs-CPT-Ce6 NPs could produce ROS for PDT and then facilitate the enhancement of tumor hypoxic condition, which could further promote the dissociation of CPs via reductive cleavage of AZO bridges to subsequently release cargos (chemotherapeutic drug, CPT) and then significantly enhance the killing effects to tumor cells that were resistant to PDT. Both in vitro and in vivo studies confirmed the improvement of synergistic therapeutic effects of our CPs-CPT-Ce6 NPs. This cascade responsive approach provides an excellent complementary mode for PDT and could open new insights for constructing programmable and controllable responsive systems in biomedical applications.
肿瘤缺氧微环境以及光动力疗法(PDT)诱导的缺氧会严重限制传统 PDT 的治疗效果。幸运的是,将缺氧响应药物传递系统与 PDT 智能结合可能是增强 PDT 效率的一种有前途的策略,这种效率受到缺氧环境的限制。在此,构建了一种新型的含偶氮苯(AZO)的共轭聚合物(CPs)-基于纳米载体(CPs-CPT-Ce6 NPs),用于 PDT 与化学疗法的联合应用,并通过光增强缺氧响应药物释放。作为制备 CPs-CPT-Ce6 NPs 的基质的共轭聚合物链有利于负载疏水性光敏剂和化疗药物,以提高其细胞摄取率。此外,CPs 中的 AZO 基团(-N═N-)可在肿瘤细胞缺氧微环境下被芳基还原酶(缺氧的典型生物标志物)还原和裂解,作为缺氧响应连接子组件。激光照射后,CPs-CPT-Ce6 NPs 可产生用于 PDT 的 ROS,然后促进肿瘤缺氧条件的增强,这可进一步通过还原裂解 AZO 桥促进 CPs 的解离,随后释放载药(化疗药物,CPT),从而显著增强对 PDT 有抗性的肿瘤细胞的杀伤作用。体外和体内研究均证实了我们的 CPs-CPT-Ce6 NPs 的协同治疗效果得到了改善。这种级联响应方法为 PDT 提供了一种极好的互补模式,并为构建生物医学应用中可编程和可控响应系统开辟了新的思路。
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