Cancer phototheranostics involving optical imaging-guided photodynamic therapy(PDT)and photothermal therapy(PTT)is a localized noninvasive approach in treating cancer.Mitochondria-targeted near-infrared(NIR)cyanines a...Cancer phototheranostics involving optical imaging-guided photodynamic therapy(PDT)and photothermal therapy(PTT)is a localized noninvasive approach in treating cancer.Mitochondria-targeted near-infrared(NIR)cyanines are excellent therapeutic photosensitizers of cancer.However,most mitochondria-targeted cyanines exist in the form of hydrophobic structures,which in vivo may cause cyanine aggregation during blood circulation,resulting in poor biocompatibility and limited therapeutic efficacy.Therefore,we developed a trade-off strategy by encapsulating mitochondria-targeted cyanines into liposomal bilayers(CyBI7-LPs),which balanced hydrophilicity that favored blood circulation and hydrophobicity that enhanced mitochondria tumor targeting.Moreover,CyBI7-LPs greatly minimized photobleaching of cyanine as self-generated reactive oxygen species(ROS)could rapidly escape from the liposomal bilayer,affording enhanced PTT/PDT efficacy.Bioorthogonal-mediated targeting strategy was further employed to improve uptake of tumor cells by modifying the liposomal surface to generate CyBI7-LPB.The CyBI7-LPB probe produced a tumor-to-background ratio(TBR)of approximately 6.4 at 24 HPI.Guiding by highly sensitive imaging resulted in excellent anti-tumor therapy outcomes using CyBI7-LPB due to the enhanced photothermal and photodynamic effects.This proposed liposomal nanoplatform exhibited a simple and robust approach as an imaging-guided synergistic anti-tumor therapeutic strategy.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Nos.2017YFC1309100 and 2017YFA0205200)National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.81671753,91959124,81227901,and 21804104)+4 种基金Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province of China(No.2020PT-020)Key Research and Development Program of Shaanxi Province(2019NY-085)Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi Province of China(Nos.2019JQ-139,2019JQ-662,2018JM2041)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Nos.JB191211,JB191207,JB191208)the Open Project Program of the State Key Laboratory of Cancer Biology(Fourth Military Medical University)(No.CBSKL2019ZDKF06).
文摘Cancer phototheranostics involving optical imaging-guided photodynamic therapy(PDT)and photothermal therapy(PTT)is a localized noninvasive approach in treating cancer.Mitochondria-targeted near-infrared(NIR)cyanines are excellent therapeutic photosensitizers of cancer.However,most mitochondria-targeted cyanines exist in the form of hydrophobic structures,which in vivo may cause cyanine aggregation during blood circulation,resulting in poor biocompatibility and limited therapeutic efficacy.Therefore,we developed a trade-off strategy by encapsulating mitochondria-targeted cyanines into liposomal bilayers(CyBI7-LPs),which balanced hydrophilicity that favored blood circulation and hydrophobicity that enhanced mitochondria tumor targeting.Moreover,CyBI7-LPs greatly minimized photobleaching of cyanine as self-generated reactive oxygen species(ROS)could rapidly escape from the liposomal bilayer,affording enhanced PTT/PDT efficacy.Bioorthogonal-mediated targeting strategy was further employed to improve uptake of tumor cells by modifying the liposomal surface to generate CyBI7-LPB.The CyBI7-LPB probe produced a tumor-to-background ratio(TBR)of approximately 6.4 at 24 HPI.Guiding by highly sensitive imaging resulted in excellent anti-tumor therapy outcomes using CyBI7-LPB due to the enhanced photothermal and photodynamic effects.This proposed liposomal nanoplatform exhibited a simple and robust approach as an imaging-guided synergistic anti-tumor therapeutic strategy.
