Li Jiaqi, Huang Yanqin, Ding Guice, Zhang Rui, Liu Xingfen, Fan Quli, Huang Wei
State Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (LoFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China.
State Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (LoFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, 9 Wenyuan Road, Nanjing 210023, China.
J Photochem Photobiol B. 2025 Aug;269:113204. doi: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2025.113204. Epub 2025 Jun 23.
Theranostic nanoagents based on conjugated small molecules (CSMs) have attracted widespread interest in fluorescence (FL)/photoacoustic (PA) imaging and phototherapy for cancer, because CSMs exhibit not only excellent photophysical properties but also good synthetic repeatability and biosafety due to the small molecular weight, which are very important for further clinical applications. However, CSMs have rarely been studied for near-infrared (NIR) phototheranostics, especially in the NIR-II window, because of insufficient degree of conjugation. Herein, we employed bithiophenyl diketopyrrolopyrrole as acceptor (A), fluorene as donor (D), and vinylbenzene as π-bridge, two types of CSMs with D-π-A and D-π-A-π-D structure (FVD and FVDVF) were thus designed and simultaneously synthesized through a facile one-pot Heck reaction. Then, FVD@F127 nanoparticles (NPs) and FVDVF@F127 NPs were prepared by encapsulating the corresponding CSM with the hydrophilic polymer F127, achieving good water solubility, biocompatibility, and the CSMs-mediated synergistic photothermal/photodynamic effects. Subsequently, MnO NPs were loaded on their surface to obtain FVD@F127@MnO NPs and FVDVF@F127@MnO NPs, which responded to glutathione/HO in the tumor microenvironment to produce cytotoxic •OH and in situ O supply, leading to enhanced photodynamic effect, additional photothermal and chemodynamic effects. In vitro and in vivo studies of the final two NPs demonstrated that they were both promising NIR FL/PA dual-modal imaging nanoagents with improved photothermal/photodynamic/chemodynamic effects. Comparatively, FVD@F127@MnO NPs displayed better photodynamic effects because of the heavy atom Br in FVD, and FVDVF@F127@MnO NPs exhibited excellent NIR-II FL imaging capability (QY = 0.25 %), much better PA imaging performance and photothermal effects (η = 68.5 %) owing to a larger molecular structure coplanarity of FVDVF.
基于共轭小分子(CSMs)的诊疗纳米剂在癌症的荧光(FL)/光声(PA)成像及光疗方面引起了广泛关注,因为CSMs不仅展现出优异的光物理性质,还因其小分子量具有良好的合成重复性和生物安全性,这对进一步的临床应用非常重要。然而,由于共轭程度不足,CSMs很少被用于近红外(NIR)光诊疗,尤其是在NIR-II窗口。在此,我们采用联噻吩二酮吡咯并吡咯作为受体(A),芴作为供体(D),苯乙烯作为π桥,通过简便的一锅法Heck反应设计并同时合成了两种具有D-π-A和D-π-A-π-D结构的CSMs(FVD和FVDVF)。然后,通过用亲水性聚合物F127包裹相应的CSM制备了FVD@F127纳米颗粒(NPs)和FVDVF@F127 NPs,实现了良好的水溶性、生物相容性以及CSMs介导的协同光热/光动力效应。随后,将MnO NPs负载在它们的表面以获得FVD@F127@MnO NPs和FVDVF@F127@MnO NPs,它们在肿瘤微环境中对谷胱甘肽/HO作出响应以产生细胞毒性•OH并原位提供O,从而导致增强的光动力效应、额外的光热和化学动力效应。对最终这两种NPs的体外和体内研究表明,它们都是具有改善的光热/光动力/化学动力效应的有前景的NIR FL/PA双模态成像纳米剂。相比之下,由于FVD中的重原子Br,FVD@F127@MnO NPs表现出更好的光动力效应,而FVDVF@F127@MnO NPs由于FVDVF更大的分子结构共面性展现出优异的NIR-II FL成像能力(量子产率=0.25%)、更好的PA成像性能和光热效应(η=68.5%)。
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