Rheumatoid arthritis(RA)is a debilitating autoimmune disease that causes chronic pain and serious complications,presenting a significant challenge to treat.Promising approaches for treating RA involve signaling pathwa...Rheumatoid arthritis(RA)is a debilitating autoimmune disease that causes chronic pain and serious complications,presenting a significant challenge to treat.Promising approaches for treating RA involve signaling pathways modulation and targeted therapy.To this end,a multifunctional nanosystem,TPC-U@HAT,has been designed for RA therapy,featuring multitargeting,dual-stimuli response,and on-demand drug release capabilities.TPC-U@HAT is composed of a probe/prodrug TPC,a JAK1 kinase inhibitor upadacitinib,and the drug carrier HAT.TPC is composed of an aggregation-induced emission(AIE)-active NIR-II chromophore TPY and an NF-κB/NLRP3 inhibitor caffeic acid phenethyl ester(CAPE),connected via boronic ester bond which serves as the reactive-oxygen-species-responsive linker.The carrier,HAT,is created by grafting bone-targeting alendronate and hydrophobic tocopheryl succinate onto hyaluronic acid chains,which can encapsulate TPC and upadacitinib to form TPC-U@HAT.Upon intravenous injection into mice,TPC-U@HAT accumulates at inflamed lesions of RA through both active and passive targeting,and the overexpressed hyaluronidase and H_(2)O_(2) therein cleave the hyaluronic acid polymer chains and boronate bonds,respectively.This generates an AIE-active chromophore for detection and therapeutic evaluation of RA via both optoacoustic imaging and NIR-II fluorescent imaging and concomitantly releases CAPE and upadacitinib to exert efficacious therapy by inhibiting NF-κB/NLRP3 and JAK-STAT pathways.展开更多
基金NSFC,Grant/Award Numbers:22274057,21875069,21788102Guangdong Provincial Basic and Applied Basic Research Fund Regional Joint Fund Project(Youth Fund Project),Grant/Award Number:2022A1515110842Chinese Postdoctoral Science Foundation,Grant/Award Number:2022M711194。
文摘Rheumatoid arthritis(RA)is a debilitating autoimmune disease that causes chronic pain and serious complications,presenting a significant challenge to treat.Promising approaches for treating RA involve signaling pathways modulation and targeted therapy.To this end,a multifunctional nanosystem,TPC-U@HAT,has been designed for RA therapy,featuring multitargeting,dual-stimuli response,and on-demand drug release capabilities.TPC-U@HAT is composed of a probe/prodrug TPC,a JAK1 kinase inhibitor upadacitinib,and the drug carrier HAT.TPC is composed of an aggregation-induced emission(AIE)-active NIR-II chromophore TPY and an NF-κB/NLRP3 inhibitor caffeic acid phenethyl ester(CAPE),connected via boronic ester bond which serves as the reactive-oxygen-species-responsive linker.The carrier,HAT,is created by grafting bone-targeting alendronate and hydrophobic tocopheryl succinate onto hyaluronic acid chains,which can encapsulate TPC and upadacitinib to form TPC-U@HAT.Upon intravenous injection into mice,TPC-U@HAT accumulates at inflamed lesions of RA through both active and passive targeting,and the overexpressed hyaluronidase and H_(2)O_(2) therein cleave the hyaluronic acid polymer chains and boronate bonds,respectively.This generates an AIE-active chromophore for detection and therapeutic evaluation of RA via both optoacoustic imaging and NIR-II fluorescent imaging and concomitantly releases CAPE and upadacitinib to exert efficacious therapy by inhibiting NF-κB/NLRP3 and JAK-STAT pathways.