CAS Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety , Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049 , China.
College of Materials Science and Optoelectronic Technology , University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049 , China.
Nano Lett. 2019 Mar 13;19(3):1749-1757. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b04763. Epub 2019 Feb 20.
Traditional radiotherapy can induce injury to the normal tissue around the tumor, so the development of novel radiosensitizer with high selectivity and controllability that can lead to more effective and reliable radiotherapy is highly desirable. Herein, a new smart radiosensitizer based on Cu(OH)PO nanocrystals that can simultaneously respond to endogenous stimulus (HO) and exogenous stimulus (X-ray) is reported. First, Cu(OH)PO nanocrystals can generate Cu sites under X-ray irradiation through X-ray-induced photoelectron transfer process. Then, X-ray-triggered Cu sites serve as a catalyst for efficiently decomposing overexpressed HO in the tumor microenvironment into highly toxic hydroxyl radical through the Fenton-like reaction, finally inducing apoptosis and necrosis of cancer cells. Meanwhile, this nonspontaneous Fenton-like reaction is greatly limited within normal tissues because of its oxygen-rich condition and insufficient HO relative to tumor tissues. Thus, this strategy can ensure that the process of radiosentization can only be executed within hypoxic tumors but not in normal cells, resulting in the minimum damages to surrounding healthy tissues. As a result, the X-ray-triggered Fenton-like reaction via introducing nontoxic Cu(OH)PO nanocrystals under the dual stimuli provides a more controllable and reliable activation approach to simultaneously enhance the radiotherapeutic efficacy and reduce side effects.
传统的放疗会对肿瘤周围的正常组织造成损伤,因此,开发高选择性和可控性的新型放疗增敏剂,以实现更有效和可靠的放疗,是非常有必要的。在此,我们报道了一种基于 Cu(OH)PO 纳米晶体的新型智能放疗增敏剂,它可以同时对内源性刺激(HO)和外源性刺激(X 射线)做出响应。首先,Cu(OH)PO 纳米晶体可以通过 X 射线诱导的光电子转移过程,在 X 射线照射下产生 Cu 位点。然后,X 射线触发的 Cu 位点通过类 Fenton 反应充当高效催化剂,将肿瘤微环境中过表达的 HO 分解成高毒性的羟基自由基,最终诱导癌细胞凋亡和坏死。同时,由于富含氧气和相对于肿瘤组织而言 HO 相对不足,这种非自发的类 Fenton 反应在正常组织中受到极大限制。因此,该策略可以确保放射增敏过程只能在缺氧肿瘤中进行,而不会在正常细胞中进行,从而将对周围健康组织的损害降到最低。总之,通过在双重刺激下引入无毒的 Cu(OH)PO 纳米晶体来触发 X 射线引发的类 Fenton 反应,为同时增强放射治疗效果和降低副作用提供了一种更可控和可靠的激活方法。
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