Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of New Drug Screening, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southern Medical University, 1838 Guangzhou Avenue North, Guangzhou 510515, China.
Stomatological Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510280, China.
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2021 Nov 24;13(46):54783-54793. doi: 10.1021/acsami.1c17476. Epub 2021 Nov 11.
Photosensitizers play a critical role in photodynamic therapy (PDT). Multifunctional organic nanoparticles (NPs) that possess bright fluorescence in aggregates, high singlet oxygen (O) quantum yield, near-infrared (NIR) absorption and emission, large Stokes shift, two-photon bioimaging, specific organelle targeting, high PDT efficiency, as well as good biocompatibility and photostability are ideal candidate photosensitizers for image-guided PDT. Due to its enhanced fluorescence and high O generation efficiency in aggregate states, photosensitizers with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) characteristics have attracted increasing interest in PDT. In this study, a new AIE-active Schiff base 5-(((5-(7-(4-(diphenylamino)phenyl)benzo[][1,2,5]thiadiazol-4-yl)thiophen-2-yl)methylene)amino)-3-methylthiophene-2,4-dicarbonitrile () based on a D-A-π-A skeleton has been designed and synthesized, and it can be readily encapsulated by Pluronic F-127 to form uniform nanoparticles. NPs exhibit bright NIR emission at 825 nm with a Stokes shift up to 300 nm, impressive two-photon bioimaging capability with tissue penetration deep into 300 μm, high O generation quantum yield (0.552), specific targeting to lysosome, as well as good biocompatibility and photostability. Furthermore, NPs present remarkable cytotoxicity for tumor cells and suppression of tumor growth in nude mice through reactive oxygen species generation upon white light irradiation. These results reveal that NPs have great potential to become excellent candidates for multifunctional organic photosensitizers for two-photon bioimaging and image-guided PDT and are promising in future clinical applications.
光敏剂在光动力疗法(PDT)中起着至关重要的作用。具有聚集态下高荧光亮度、高光动力治疗效率、高效单重态氧(1O2)量子产率、近红外(NIR)吸收和发射、大斯托克斯位移、双光子生物成像、细胞器靶向、良好的生物相容性和光稳定性的多功能有机纳米粒子(NPs)是理想的用于图像引导 PDT 的光敏剂候选物。由于其在聚集态下增强的荧光和高光生成效率,具有聚集诱导发光(AIE)特性的光敏剂在 PDT 中受到了越来越多的关注。在本研究中,设计并合成了一种基于 D-A-π-A 骨架的新型 AIE 活性席夫碱 5-(((5-(7-(4-(二苯基氨基)苯基)[1,2,5]噻二唑-4-基)噻吩-2-基)亚甲基)氨基)-3-甲基噻吩-2,4-二腈(),它可以很容易地被 Pluronic F-127 包裹形成均匀的纳米粒子。 NPs 在 825nm 处表现出明亮的近红外发射,斯托克斯位移高达 300nm,具有令人印象深刻的双光子生物成像能力,组织穿透深度可达 300μm,高 1O2 生成量子产率(0.552),对溶酶体具有特异性靶向作用,以及良好的生物相容性和光稳定性。此外, NPs 通过在白光照射下产生活性氧,对肿瘤细胞表现出显著的细胞毒性,并抑制裸鼠肿瘤生长。这些结果表明, NPs 具有成为用于双光子生物成像和图像引导 PDT 的多功能有机光敏剂的巨大潜力,在未来的临床应用中具有广阔的前景。
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