Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics-Hubei Bioinformatics and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China.
Hubei Novel Reactor and Green Chemical Technology Key Laboratory, School of Chemical Engineering and Pharmacy, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430074, China.
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2021 Dec 1;13(47):55780-55789. doi: 10.1021/acsami.1c12611. Epub 2021 Nov 17.
Chemodynamic therapy (CDT) is widely explored for tumor-specific therapy by converting endogenous HO to lethal ·OH to destroy cancer cells. However, ·OH scavenging by glutathione (GSH) and insufficient intratumoral HO levels seriously hinder the application of CDT. Herein, we reported the fabrication of copper ion-doped ZIF-8 loaded with gold nanozymes and doxorubicin hydrochloride (DOX) for the chemotherapy and CDT synergistic treatment of tumors with the assistance of tumor microenvironment (TME)-activated fluorescence imaging. The Cu-doped ZIF-8 shell was gradually degraded to release DOX and gold nanoclusters responding to the acidic TME. The fluorescence signal of the tumor region was acquired after the quenched fluorescence of the gold nanoclusters by Cu and DOX by aggregation-induced quenching was turned on because of the interaction of GSH with Cu and the release of free DOX. The Cu ions could deplete the GSH via redox reactions and the generated Cu could convert internal HO to ·OH for tumor CDT. The chemotherapeutic effect of DOX was strengthened through drug efflux inhibition and drug sensitivity increase due to the consumption of GSH and ·OH burst. Moreover, DOX could raise the level of HO and augment the effect of CDT. In addition, the fluorescent gold nanoclusters not only served as a peroxidase to convert HO to ·OH but also employed as an oxidase to consume GSH, resulting in the amplification of chemotherapy and CDT. This work presents an approach to construct tumor microenvironment-activated theranostic probes without external stimuli and to achieve the tumor elimination through cascade reactions and synergistic treatment.
化学动力学疗法(CDT)通过将内源性 HO 转化为致命的·OH 来破坏癌细胞,从而被广泛探索用于肿瘤特异性治疗。然而,谷胱甘肽(GSH)对·OH 的清除作用以及肿瘤内 HO 水平的不足严重阻碍了 CDT 的应用。在此,我们报道了一种铜离子掺杂的 ZIF-8 负载金纳米酶和盐酸多柔比星(DOX)的制备,用于在肿瘤微环境(TME)激活的荧光成像的辅助下进行肿瘤的化疗和 CDT 协同治疗。Cu 掺杂的 ZIF-8 壳逐渐降解,以响应酸性 TME 释放 DOX 和金纳米簇。由于 GSH 与 Cu 的相互作用以及游离 DOX 的释放,金纳米簇的荧光被 Cu 和 DOX 猝灭,聚集诱导猝灭后,肿瘤区域的荧光信号被获取。Cu 离子可以通过氧化还原反应耗竭 GSH,生成的 Cu 可以将内部 HO 转化为·OH 用于肿瘤 CDT。由于 GSH 和·OH 爆发的消耗,DOX 的化疗效果得到了增强,并且通过药物外排抑制和药物敏感性增加。此外,DOX 可以提高 HO 的水平,并增强 CDT 的效果。此外,荧光金纳米簇不仅可以作为过氧化物酶将 HO 转化为·OH,还可以作为氧化酶消耗 GSH,从而放大化疗和 CDT 的效果。这项工作提出了一种构建无需外部刺激的肿瘤微环境激活治疗性探针的方法,并通过级联反应和协同治疗实现肿瘤消除。
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