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Kirbas Cilingir E, Besbinar O, Giro L, Bartoli M, Hueso JL, Mintz KJ, Aydogan Y, Garber JM, Turktas M, Ekim O, Ceylan A, Unal MA, Ensoy M, Arı F, Ozgenç Çinar O, Ozturk BI, Gokce C, Cansaran-Duman D, Braun M, Wachtveitl J, Santamaria J, Delogu LG, Tagliaferro A, Yilmazer A, Leblanc RM. Small Warriors of Nature: Novel Red Emissive Chlorophyllin Carbon Dots Harnessing Fenton-Fueled Ferroptosis for In Vitro and In Vivo Cancer Treatment. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2024; 20:e2309283. [PMID: 38230862 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202309283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2023] [Revised: 12/11/2023] [Indexed: 01/18/2024]
Abstract
The appeal of carbon dots (CDs) has grown recently, due to their established biocompatibility, adjustable photoluminescence properties, and excellent water solubility. For the first time in the literature, copper chlorophyllin-based carbon dots (Chl-D CDs) are successfully synthesized. Chl-D CDs exhibit unique spectroscopic traits and are found to induce a Fenton-like reaction, augmenting photodynamic therapy (PDT) efficacies via ferroptotic and apoptotic pathways. To bolster the therapeutic impact of Chl-D CDs, a widely used cancer drug, temozolomide, is linked to their surface, yielding a synergistic effect with PDT and chemotherapy. Chl-D CDs' biocompatibility in immune cells and in vivo models showed great clinical potential.Proteomic analysis was conducted to understand Chl-D CDs' underlying cancer treatment mechanism. The study underscores the role of reactive oxygen species formation and pointed toward various oxidative stress modulators like aldolase A (ALDOA), aldolase C (ALDOC), aldehyde dehydrogenase 1B1 (ALDH1B1), transaldolase 1 (TALDO1), and transketolase (TKT), offering a deeper understanding of the Chl-D CDs' anticancer activity. Notably, the Chl-D CDs' capacity to trigger a Fenton-like reaction leads to enhanced PDT efficiencies through ferroptotic and apoptotic pathways. Hence, it is firmly believed that the inherent attributes of Chl-CDs can lead to a secure and efficient combined cancer therapy.
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- Emel Kirbas Cilingir
- Department of Chemistry, University of Miami, 1301 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ankara University, Ankara, 06830, Turkey
- Stem Cell Institute, Ankara University, Ankara, 06520, Turkey
- The Graduate School of Health Sciences of Ankara University, Ankara, 06110, Turkey
- Institute of Nanoscience and Materials of Aragon (INMA), CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, Campus Río Ebro, Edificio I+D, C/Poeta Mariano Esquillor, s/n, Zaragoza, 50018, Spain
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, 35129, Italy
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- Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, 10129, Italy
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- Institute of Nanoscience and Materials of Aragon (INMA), CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, Campus Río Ebro, Edificio I+D, C/Poeta Mariano Esquillor, s/n, Zaragoza, 50018, Spain
- Networking Research Center in Biomaterials, Bioengineering and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, 28029, Spain
- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Zaragoza, Campus Rio Ebro, C/María de Luna, 3, Zaragoza, 50018, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (IIS) Aragón, Avenida San Juan Bosco, 13, Zaragoza, 50009, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Miami, 1301 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, USA
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- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Miami, 1301 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, USA
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Gazi University, Ankara, 06560, Turkey
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- Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ankara University, Ankara, 06110, Turkey
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- Department of Histology Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ankara University, Ankara, 06110, Turkey
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- Biotechnology Institute, Ankara University, Ankara, 06135, Turkey
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- Department of Electrical Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ankara, 06830, Turkey
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- Department of Histology Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ankara University, Ankara, 06110, Turkey
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ankara University, Ankara, 06830, Turkey
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ankara University, Ankara, 06830, Turkey
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- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438, Frankfurt, Germany
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- Institute of Nanoscience and Materials of Aragon (INMA), CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, Campus Río Ebro, Edificio I+D, C/Poeta Mariano Esquillor, s/n, Zaragoza, 50018, Spain
- Networking Research Center in Biomaterials, Bioengineering and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, 28029, Spain
- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Zaragoza, Campus Rio Ebro, C/María de Luna, 3, Zaragoza, 50018, Spain
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (IIS) Aragón, Avenida San Juan Bosco, 13, Zaragoza, 50009, Spain
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, 35129, Italy
- Department of Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, 127788, UAE
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- Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, 10129, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ankara University, Ankara, 06830, Turkey
- Stem Cell Institute, Ankara University, Ankara, 06520, Turkey
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Miami, 1301 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, USA
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Ma X, Liuye S, Ning K, Wang X, Cui S, Pu S. A photo-controlled fluorescent switching based on carbon dots and photochromic diarylethene for bioimaging. Photochem Photobiol Sci 2023; 22:2389-2399. [PMID: 37479954 DOI: 10.1007/s43630-023-00458-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2023] [Accepted: 07/06/2023] [Indexed: 07/23/2023]
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Carbon dots (CDs) as luminescent zero-dimensional carbon nanomaterials have good aqueous dissolution, photostability, high quantum yield, and tunability of emission color. It has great application potential in many fields, including bioimaging, labeling of biological species, drug delivery, and sensing in biomedical. However, controlling the fluorescence emission of carbon dots remains a formidable challenge. Herein, we designed and exploited a photo-controlled fluorescent switching based on photochromic diarylethene (DT) and CDs for bioimaging. It could be modulated reversibly between "ON" and "OFF" under UV/vis light exposure. The fluorescent modulation efficiency was as high as 95.3%. The fluorescent switching could be used to the bioimaging in HeLa cells with low cell toxicity. Therefore, this fluorescent switching could be a promising candidate in many potential application areas, especially in bioimaging.
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- Xinhuan Ma
- Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Nanchang, 330013, People's Republic of China
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- Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Nanchang, 330013, People's Republic of China
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- Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Nanchang, 330013, People's Republic of China
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- Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Nanchang, 330013, People's Republic of China
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- Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Nanchang, 330013, People's Republic of China.
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- Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Nanchang, 330013, People's Republic of China.
- Department of Ecology and Environment, Yuzhang Normal University, Nanchang, 330103, People's Republic of China.
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Ma G, Wang R, Zhang M, Dong Z, Zhang A, Qu M, Gao L, Wei Y, Wei J. Solvothermal preparation of nitrogen-doped carbon dots with PET waste as precursor and their application in LEDs and water detection. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2023; 289:122178. [PMID: 36527965 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2022.122178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2022] [Revised: 10/30/2022] [Accepted: 11/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
Abstract
Developing novel, alternative ways to recycle PET waste, which has an important influence on reduction of landfilling and CO2 emissions, has always been a research hot spot for industry and academy. In this work, PET waste was adopted as precursor for the preparation of nitrogen-doped Carbon Dots (NCDs). Firstly, PET oligomers were obtained by alcoholysis of PET waste with ethylene glycol. Then, the mixture without isolation and purification as well as pyromellitic acid dianhydride and urea were adopted as precursors for the preparation of NCDs by solvothermal method with tetrahydrofuran (THF) as solvent. The as-prepared NCDs has a spherical structure with an average particle size of 2.3 nm. What is more, NCDs exhibit excitation-independent emission properties, the largest excitation peak and emission peak of NCDs located in 360 nm and 470 nm, and the fluorescence quantum yield is 48.16 %. In term of application, NCDs are dispersed in PMMA and loaded on 365 nm and 430 nm LED chips to obtain LED devices emitting yellow light ((0.55, 0.44), 2018 K) and warm white light ((0.37, 0.31), 3783 K), respectively. In addition, NCDs could be adopted as fluorescent probe for the construction of sensor for water in organic solvents based on dynamic quenching of NCDs, and the limit of detection (LOD) is 0.00001 %.
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- Guocong Ma
- School of Materials Design and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- School of Materials Design and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Beijing 100029, China; Beijing Key Laboratory of Clothing Materials R&D and Assessment, Beijing Engineering Research Center of Textile Nano Fiber, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- School of Materials Design and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- School of Materials Design and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- School of Materials Design and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Beijing 100029, China; School of Material Science and Engineering, Tiangong University, No. 399 BinShuiXi Road, Xiqing District, Tianjin, China
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- School of Materials Design and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- School of Materials Design and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- School of Materials Design and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- School of Materials Design and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Beijing 100029, China; Beijing Key Laboratory of Clothing Materials R&D and Assessment, Beijing Engineering Research Center of Textile Nano Fiber, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Beijing 100029, China.
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