School of Life Sciences and Health Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China.
School of Life Sciences and Health Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China.
Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces. 2023 Feb;222:113094. doi: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2022.113094. Epub 2022 Dec 15.
In recent years, laser-mediated photodynamic therapy and photothermal therapy have attracted widespread attention due to their minimally invasive, easy to operate characteristics and high specificity. However, the traditional photodynamic or photothermal therapy exist several shortcomings such as the hypoxic microenvironment, intracellular heat shock proteins or complex operation. In this study, covalent organic framework (COF) was used as the drug carrier to equip with the photosensitizer indocyanine green (ICG) and the hypoxia-activating prodrug AQ4N. The hyaluronic acid (HA) was modified on the surface of COF to obtain the HA-COF@ICG/AQ4N drug delivery system. HA-modified COF delivery systems can target tumor cells through recognize CD44 which is overexpressed in the surface of tumor cells membrane. Under the irradiation of single NIR laser, ICG that can excite the nanoplatform simultaneously produces a combined effect of photodynamic and photothermal. At the same time, photodynamic therapy through depleting intracellular oxygen exacerbates the hypoxic state of the tumor microenvironment, which in turn enhances AQ4N reduced to chemotherapeutic drug AQ4, producing a synergistic cascade antitumor effect. The results of our study by tumor cell and tumor spheroids indicated that the hypoxia-activated multi-functional nanoplatform could effectively inhibit the growth and metastasis of triple-negative breast cancer.
近年来,由于具有微创、操作简便和高度特异性等优点,激光介导的光动力疗法和光热疗法受到了广泛关注。然而,传统的光动力疗法或光热疗法存在缺氧微环境、细胞内热休克蛋白或复杂操作等缺点。在本研究中,共价有机框架(COF)被用作药物载体,负载光敏剂吲哚菁绿(ICG)和缺氧激活前药 AQ4N。在 COF 表面修饰透明质酸(HA),得到透明质酸修饰的 COF@ICG/AQ4N 药物传递系统。HA 修饰的 COF 给药系统可以通过识别肿瘤细胞膜表面过度表达的 CD44 来靶向肿瘤细胞。在单近红外激光的照射下,ICG 可以同时激发纳米平台,产生光动力和光热的协同作用。同时,通过耗尽细胞内氧气的光动力疗法加剧了肿瘤微环境的缺氧状态,进而增强 AQ4N 还原为化疗药物 AQ4,产生协同级联抗肿瘤作用。我们对肿瘤细胞和肿瘤球体的研究结果表明,缺氧激活多功能纳米平台能够有效抑制三阴性乳腺癌的生长和转移。
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