Department of Ultrasound in Medicine, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, 200072, People's Republic of China.
State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, People's Republic of China.
Biomaterials. 2019 Jun;206:101-114. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2019.03.014. Epub 2019 Mar 16.
Reactive oxygen species (ROS)-mediated nanocatalytic therapy, as conducted by the tumor microenvironment to generate toxic hydroxyl (OH) radicals with the assistant of Fenton nanocatalysts, exhibits high tumor-therapeutic promise due to its high therapeutic selectivity and desirable therapeutic outcome. The mostly explored Fe-based Fenton nanocatalysts-enabled nanocatalytic cancer therapy substantially suffers from lowed pH condition and the corresponding therapeutic effect is still far from satisfactory for further clinic application. In this work, we report, for the first time, that copper (Cu)-based nanocatalysts have the intrinsic capability to catalyze hydrogen peroxide (HO) into hydroxyl radicals in a wide range pH condition with the comparable and even better performance as compared to mostly explored Fe-based nanocatalysts. Especially, ultrasmall (≤5 nm) PEGylated CuS nanodots (CuS-PEG) were fabricated to serve as the novel Fenton nanocatalysts for nanocatalytic tumor therapy. Importantly, taking the unique advantage of high near infrared (NIR) light absorbance at NIR-II biowindow (1000-1350 nm), light-activated photonic theranostic modality, i.e. photoacoustic imaging and photothermal therapy at both NIR-II biowindows was introduced, which could efficiently delineate/monitor the tumor regions and synergistically enhance Fenton-mediated therapeutic efficacy by photonic hyperthermia, respectively. Both systematic in vitro and in vivo experiments have demonstrated the high therapeutic efficacy of CuS-enabled synergistic photothermal hyperthermia-enhanced nanocatalytic therapy. This work not only provides a nanoparticle-augmented synergistic cancer-therapeutic modality, but also enriches the totally new nanocatalyst types for catalytic Fenton reaction-based nanocatalytic tumor therapy.
活性氧(ROS)介导的纳米催化疗法,通过肿瘤微环境利用芬顿纳米催化剂生成有毒的羟基(OH)自由基,由于其高治疗选择性和理想的治疗效果,具有很高的肿瘤治疗潜力。大多数探索的基于铁的芬顿纳米催化剂实现的纳米催化癌症治疗在低 pH 条件下受到很大限制,相应的治疗效果对于进一步的临床应用仍然远远不够令人满意。在这项工作中,我们首次报道,铜(Cu)基纳米催化剂具有内在的能力,可在广泛的 pH 条件下将过氧化氢(HO)催化为羟基自由基,其性能与大多数探索的基于铁的纳米催化剂相当,甚至更好。特别是,制备了超小(≤5nm)聚乙二醇化 CuS 纳米点(CuS-PEG)作为新型芬顿纳米催化剂用于纳米催化肿瘤治疗。重要的是,利用近红外(NIR)二区(1000-1350nm)的高近红外光吸收率的独特优势,引入了光激活光热治疗模式,即近红外二区的光声成像和光热治疗,分别可以有效地描绘/监测肿瘤区域,并通过光热疗法协同增强芬顿介导的治疗效果。系统的体外和体内实验都证明了 Cu 增强的协同光热高温增强纳米催化治疗的高治疗效果。这项工作不仅提供了一种增强协同癌症治疗的纳米颗粒治疗模式,而且还为基于催化芬顿反应的纳米催化肿瘤治疗丰富了全新的纳米催化剂类型。
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