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Guidi L, Cascone MG, Rosellini E. Light-responsive polymeric nanoparticles for retinal drug delivery: design cues, challenges and future perspectives. Heliyon 2024; 10:e26616. [PMID: 38434257 PMCID: PMC10906429 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e26616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2023] [Revised: 02/15/2024] [Accepted: 02/16/2024] [Indexed: 03/05/2024] Open
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A multitude of sight-threatening retinal diseases, affecting hundreds of millions around the globe, lack effective pharmacological treatments due to ocular barriers and common drug delivery limitations. Polymeric nanoparticles (PNPs) are versatile drug carriers with sustained drug release profiles and tunable physicochemical properties which have been explored for ocular drug delivery to both anterior and posterior ocular tissues. PNPs can incorporate a wide range of drugs and overcome the challenges of conventional retinal drug delivery. Moreover, PNPs can be engineered to respond to specific stimuli such as ultraviolet, visible, or near-infrared light, and allow precise spatiotemporal control of the drug release, enabling tailored treatment regimens and reducing the number of required administrations. The objective of this study is to emphasize the therapeutic potential of light-triggered drug-loaded polymeric nanoparticles to treat retinal diseases through an exploration of ocular pathologies, challenges in drug delivery, current production methodologies and recent applications. Despite challenges, light-responsive PNPs hold the promise of substantially enhancing the treatment landscape for ocular diseases, aiming for an improved quality of life for patients.
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- Lorenzo Guidi
- Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, University of Pisa, Largo Lucio Lazzarino 1, 56122, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, University of Pisa, Largo Lucio Lazzarino 1, 56122, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, University of Pisa, Largo Lucio Lazzarino 1, 56122, Pisa, Italy
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Wang S, Fu Q, Su L, Wu Y, Zhu K, Yang DC, Yang XZ, Weng XL, Liu JY, Song J. Self-Reporting Molecular Prodrug for In Situ Quantitative Sensing of Drug Release by Ratiometric Photoacoustic Imaging. ACS Sens 2023; 8:4737-4746. [PMID: 38008917 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.3c01824] [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] [Indexed: 11/28/2023]
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Understanding the pharmacokinetics of prodrugs in vivo necessitates quantitative, noninvasive, and real-time monitoring of drug release, despite its difficulty. Ratiometric photoacoustic (PA) imaging, a promising deep tissue imaging technology with a unique capacity for self-calibration, can aid in solving this problem. Here, for the first time, a methylamino-substituted Aza-BODIPY (BDP-N) and the chemotherapeutic drug camptothecin (CPT) are joined via a disulfide chain to produce the molecular theranostic prodrug (BSC) for real-time tumor mapping and quantitative visualization of intratumoral drug release using ratiometric PA imaging. Intact BSC has an extremely low toxicity, with a maximum absorption at ∼720 nm; however, endogenous glutathione (GSH), which is overexpressed in tumors, will cleave the disulfide bond and liberate CPT (with full toxicity) and BDP-N. This is accompanied by a significant redshift in absorption at ∼800 nm, resulting in the PA800/PA720 ratio. In vitro, a linear relationship is successfully established between PA800/PA720 values and CPT release rates, and subsequent experiments demonstrate that this relationship can also be applied to the quantitative detection of intratumoral CPT release in vivo. Notably, the novel ratiometric strategy eliminates nonresponsive interference and amplifies the multiples of the signal response to significantly improve the imaging contrast and detection precision. Therefore, this research offers a viable alternative for the design of molecular theranostic agents for the clinical diagnosis and treatment of tumors.
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- Shuai Wang
- Key Laboratory of Molecule Synthesis and Function Discovery (Fujian Province University) and National & Local Joint Biomedical Engineering Research Center on Photodynamic Technologies, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, P. R. China
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- Institute for Translational Medicine, College of Medicine, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266021, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecule Synthesis and Function Discovery (Fujian Province University) and National & Local Joint Biomedical Engineering Research Center on Photodynamic Technologies, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, P. R. China
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- State laboratory of Chemical Source Engineering, College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 10010, P. R. China
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- State laboratory of Chemical Source Engineering, College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 10010, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecule Synthesis and Function Discovery (Fujian Province University) and National & Local Joint Biomedical Engineering Research Center on Photodynamic Technologies, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecule Synthesis and Function Discovery (Fujian Province University) and National & Local Joint Biomedical Engineering Research Center on Photodynamic Technologies, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecule Synthesis and Function Discovery (Fujian Province University) and National & Local Joint Biomedical Engineering Research Center on Photodynamic Technologies, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecule Synthesis and Function Discovery (Fujian Province University) and National & Local Joint Biomedical Engineering Research Center on Photodynamic Technologies, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, P. R. China
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- State laboratory of Chemical Source Engineering, College of Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 10010, P. R. China
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Wang Q, Serda M, Li Q, Sun T. Recent Advancements on Self-Immolative System Based on Dynamic Covalent Bonds for Delivering Heterogeneous Payloads. Adv Healthc Mater 2023; 12:e2300138. [PMID: 36943096 DOI: 10.1002/adhm.202300138] [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: 01/12/2023] [Revised: 03/10/2023] [Indexed: 03/23/2023]
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The precisely spatial-temporal delivery of heterogeneous payloads from a single system with the same pulse is in great demand in realizing versatile and synergistic functions. Very few molecular architectures can satisfy the strict requirements of dual-release translated from single triggers, while the self-immolative systems based on dynamic covalent bonds represent the "state-of-art" of ultimate solution strategy. Embedding heterogeneous payloads symmetrically onto the self-immolative backbone with dynamic covalent bonds as the trigger, can respond to the quasi-bio-orthogonal hallmarks which are higher at the disease's microenvironment to simultaneously yield the heterogeneous payloads (drug A/drug B or drug/reporter). In this review, the modular design principles are concentrated to illustrate the rules in tailoring useful structures, then the rational applications are enumerated on the aspects of drug codelivery and visualized drug-delivery. This review, hopefully, can give the general readers a comprehensive understanding of the self-immolative systems based on dynamic covalent bonds for delivering heterogeneous payloads.
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- Qingbing Wang
- Department of Interventional Radiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, 197 Rui Jin Er Road, Shanghai, 200025, P. R. China
- Key Laboratory of Smart Drug Delivery Ministry of Education, Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University, 826 Zhangheng Road, Shanghai, 201203, P. R. China
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- Institute of Chemistry, University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, 40-006, Poland
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- School of Chinese Materia Medica, Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 10 Boyanghu Road, Tianjin, 301617, P. R. China
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hubei University, 368 Youyidadao Avenue, Wuhan, 430062, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Smart Drug Delivery Ministry of Education, Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University, 826 Zhangheng Road, Shanghai, 201203, P. R. China
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Zong Q, Peng X, Ding Y, Wu H, Lu C, Ye J, Sun W, Zhang J, Zhai Y. Multifunctional hydrogel wound dressing with rapid on-demand degradation property based on aliphatic polycarbonate and chitosan. Int J Biol Macromol 2023:125138. [PMID: 37263335 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.125138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2023] [Revised: 05/18/2023] [Accepted: 05/26/2023] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The multifunctional hydrogel dressings are effective strategy to treat chronic wounds of diabetes. In addition, the ability of selective degradation on demand to change dressings could provide better patient compliance. Here, an injectable, self-healing hydrogel with rapid degradability on-demand is designed to promote the healing of diabetes wounds. The block copolymer formed by aldehyde modified aliphatic cyclic carbonate monomer with polyethylene glycol (MBP) and chitosan (CS) were crosslinked through the Schiff base bond to obtain a hydrogel with excellent injectability and self-healing ability. Due to the presence of carbonate bonds in MBP, it showed the rapid on-demand degradation characteristics triggered by N-acetylcysteine (NAC). At the same time, gallic acid (GA) was loaded into the hydrogel, giving the hydrogel dressing antioxidant. In vivo and in vitro experiments showed that the hydrogel wound dressing possesses good natures, such as antibacterial, antioxidant, and friendly cell compatibility, which could promote wound healing. Overall, the multifunctional hydrogel wound dressings with rapid on-demand degradation characteristics are more practical for clinical applications.
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- Qida Zong
- Department of Pharmaceutics, Wuya College of Innovation, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang 110016, China; State Key Laboratory for Marine Corrosion and Protection, Luoyang Ship Material Research Institute, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang 110016, China
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, Wuya College of Innovation, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang 110016, China
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, Wuya College of Innovation, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang 110016, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang 110016, China
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- Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang 110016, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang 110016, China
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- State Key Laboratory for Marine Corrosion and Protection, Luoyang Ship Material Research Institute, Qingdao, China.
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang 110016, China.
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Xu Y, Nie Z, Ni N, Zhang X, Yuan J, Gao Y, Gong Y, Liu S, Wu M, Sun X. Shield-activated two-way imaging nanomaterials for enhanced cancer theranostics. Biomater Sci 2022; 10:6893-6910. [PMID: 36317535 DOI: 10.1039/d2bm01317g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Smart nanomaterials with stimuli-responsive imaging enhancement have been widely developed to meet the requirements of accurate cancer diagnosis. However, these imaging nanoenhancers tend to be always on during circulation, which significantly increases the background signal when assessing the imaging performance. To improve unfavorable signal-to-noise ratios, an effective way is to shield the noise signal of these nanoprobes in non-targeted areas. Fortunately, there is a natural mutual shielding effect between some imaging nanomaterials, which provides the possibility of designing engineered nanomaterials with imaging quenching between two different components at the beginning. Once in the tumor microenvironment, the two components will present activated dual-mode imaging ability because of their separation, designated as two-way imaging tuning. This review highlights the design and mechanism of a series of engineered nanomaterials with two-way imaging tuning and their latest applications in the fields of cancer magnetic resonance imaging, fluorescence imaging, and their combination. The challenges and future directions for the improvement of these engineered nanomaterials towards clinical transformation are also discussed. This review aims to introduce the special constraint relationships of imaging components and provide scientists with simpler and more efficient nanoplatform construction ideas, promoting the development of engineered nanomaterials with two-way imaging tuning in cancer theranostics.
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- Yang Xu
- School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Medical Science and Technology Innovation Center, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan 250000, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Medical Science and Technology Innovation Center, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan 250000, China.
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117585, Singapore
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- School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Medical Science and Technology Innovation Center, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan 250000, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Medical Science and Technology Innovation Center, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan 250000, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Medical Science and Technology Innovation Center, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan 250000, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Medical Science and Technology Innovation Center, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan 250000, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Medical Science and Technology Innovation Center, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan 250000, China.
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- Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Medical Science and Technology Innovation Center, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan 250000, China.
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Tuguntaev RG, Hussain A, Fu C, Chen H, Tao Y, Huang Y, Liu L, Liang XJ, Guo W. Bioimaging guided pharmaceutical evaluations of nanomedicines for clinical translations. J Nanobiotechnology 2022; 20:236. [PMID: 35590412 PMCID: PMC9118863 DOI: 10.1186/s12951-022-01451-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2022] [Accepted: 05/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Nanomedicines (NMs) have emerged as an efficient approach for developing novel treatment strategies against a variety of diseases. Over the past few decades, NM formulations have received great attention, and a large number of studies have been performed in this field. Despite this, only about 60 nano-formulations have received industrial acceptance and are currently available for clinical use. Their in vivo pharmaceutical behavior is considered one of the main challenges and hurdles for the effective clinical translation of NMs, because it is difficult to monitor the pharmaceutic fate of NMs in the biological environment using conventional pharmaceutical evaluations. In this context, non-invasive imaging modalities offer attractive solutions, providing the direct monitoring and quantification of the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic behavior of labeled NMs in a real-time manner. Imaging evaluations have great potential for revealing the relationship between the physicochemical properties of NMs and their pharmaceutical profiles in living subjects. In this review, we introduced imaging techniques that can be used for in vivo NM evaluations. We also provided an overview of various studies on the influence of key parameters on the in vivo pharmaceutical behavior of NMs that had been visualized in a non-invasive and real-time manner.
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- Ruslan G Tuguntaev
- Department of Minimally Invasive Interventional Radiology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Target & Clinical Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences & the Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510260, People's Republic of China
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- Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, School of Life Science, School of Medical Technology (Institute of Engineering Medicine), Key Laboratory of Molecular Medicine and Biotherapy, Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Science and Pharmaceutics Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Department of Minimally Invasive Interventional Radiology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Target & Clinical Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences & the Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510260, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Minimally Invasive Interventional Radiology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Target & Clinical Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences & the Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510260, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Minimally Invasive Interventional Radiology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Target & Clinical Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences & the Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510260, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong, 226001, China
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China, Beijing, 100190, People's Republic of China.
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- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of China, Beijing, 100190, People's Republic of China.
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- Department of Minimally Invasive Interventional Radiology, Key Laboratory of Molecular Target & Clinical Pharmacology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences & the Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, 510260, People's Republic of China.
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Cheng DB, Zhang XH, Chen SY, Xu XX, Wang H, Qiao ZY. Intracellular Self-Immolative Polyprodrug with Near-Infrared Light Guided Accumulation and in Vivo Visualization of Drug Release. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2022; 34:e2109528. [PMID: 34933400 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202109528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2021] [Revised: 12/11/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The selective accumulation and real-time monitoring of drug release at tumor site are the key bottlenecks to the clinical translation of polyprodrug. Herein, an intracellular self-immolative polyprodrug (PMTO) is exploited, which not only shows the enhanced cellular internalization and selective accumulation in tumor site under the mild hyperthermia triggered by laser irradiation, but also possesses the self-monitoring drug release ability in vivo. The polyprodrug amphiphiles are synthesized by sequential esterification reaction, and hydrophilic poly(ethylene glycol) serves as blocking agent. On account of the mild hyperthermia produced by PMTO under the laser irradiation at tumor site, the cell membranous permeability increases, resulting in the enhanced cellular internalization and drug accumulation in tumor. After internalized by cells, the self-immolative PMTO nanoparticles can release free mitoxantrone (MTO) in intracellular reductive environment, and ratiometric photoacoustic imaging based on distinct signals between MTO and PMTO is presented to trace the drug release in vivo. Finally, this self-monitoring polyprodrug presents significant tumor suppression efficacy, which exhibits great potential for guiding the clinical medication in cancer treatment.
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- Dong-Bing Cheng
- School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Life Science, Wuhan University of Technology, No. 122 Luoshi Road, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Laboratory for Biological Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), Beijing, 100190, China
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- School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Life Science, Wuhan University of Technology, No. 122 Luoshi Road, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Life Science, Wuhan University of Technology, No. 122 Luoshi Road, Wuhan, 430070, China
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- CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Laboratory for Biological Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), Beijing, 100190, China
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- CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Laboratory for Biological Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), Beijing, 100190, China
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Design Principles Governing the Development of Theranostic Anticancer Agents and Their Nanoformulations with Photoacoustic Properties. Pharmaceutics 2022; 14:pharmaceutics14020362. [PMID: 35214094 PMCID: PMC8877540 DOI: 10.3390/pharmaceutics14020362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/29/2021] [Revised: 01/22/2022] [Accepted: 01/25/2022] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The unmet need to develop novel approaches for cancer diagnosis and treatment has led to the evolution of theranostic agents, which usually include, in addition to the anticancer drug, an imaging agent based mostly on fluorescent agents. Over the past few years, a non-invasive photoacoustic imaging modality has been effectively integrated into theranostic agents. Herein, we shed light on the design principles governing the development of theranostic agents with photoacoustic properties, which can be formulated into nanocarriers to enhance their potency. Specifically, we provide an extensive analysis of their individual constituents including the imaging dyes, drugs, linkers, targeting moieties, and their formulation into nanocarriers. Along these lines, we present numerous relevant paradigms. Finally, we discuss the clinical relevance of the specific strategy, as also the limitations and future perspectives, and through this review, we envisage paving the way for the development of theranostic agents endowed with photoacoustic properties as effective anticancer medicines.
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Ao M, Yu F, Li Y, Zhong M, Tang Y, Yang H, Wu X, Zhuang Y, Wang H, Sun X, Hong X, Chen XD. Carrier-free nanoparticles of camptothecin prodrug for chemo-photothermal therapy: the making, in vitro and in vivo testing. J Nanobiotechnology 2021; 19:350. [PMID: 34717646 PMCID: PMC8557616 DOI: 10.1186/s12951-021-01093-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2021] [Accepted: 10/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Background Nanoscale drug delivery systems have emerged as broadly applicable approach for chemo-photothermal therapy. However, these nanoscale drug delivery systems suffer from carrier-induced toxicity, uncontrolled drug release and low drug carrying capacity issues. Thus, to develop carrier-free nanoparticles self-assembled from amphiphilic drug molecules, containing photothermal agent and anticancer drug, are very attractive. Results In this study, we conjugated camptothecin (CPT) with a photothermal agent new indocyanine green (IR820) via a redox-responsive disulfide linker. The resulting amphiphilic drug–drug conjugate (IR820-SS-CPT) can self-assemble into nanoparticles (IR820-SS-CPT NPs) in aqueous solution, thus remarkably improving the membrane permeability of IR820 and the aqueous solubility of CPT. The disulfide bond in the IR820-SS-CPT NPs could be cleaved in GSH rich tumor microenvironment, leading to the on demand release of the conjugated drug. Importantly, the IR820-SS-CPT NPs displayed an extremely high therapeutic agent loading efficiency (approaching 100%). Besides, in vitro experimental results indicated that IR820-SS-CPT NPs displayed remarkable tumor cell killing efficiency. Especially, the IR820-SS-CPT NPs exhibited excellent anti-tumor effects in vivo. Both in vitro and in vivo experiments were conducted, which have indicated that the design of IR820-SS-CPT NPs can provide an efficient nanotherapeutics for chemo-photothermal therapy. Conclusion A novel activatable amphiphilic small molecular prodrug IR820-SS-CPT has been developed in this study, which integrated multiple advantages of GSH-triggered drug release, high therapeutic agent content, and combined chemo-photothermal therapy into one drug delivery system. Graphical Abstract ![]()
Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12951-021-01093-y.
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- Mingtao Ao
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, China
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- Medical College, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, China. .,Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Materials, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, China.
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- Medical College, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, China
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital of Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
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- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Materials, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, China
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- Medical College, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, Key Laboratory of Drug Quality Control and Pharmacovigilance, Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, China
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital of Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
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- Department of Pharmacy, Jining Medical University, Rizhao, 276826, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Natural Medicines, Key Laboratory of Drug Quality Control and Pharmacovigilance, Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, 210009, China.
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- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital of Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China.
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- Suzhou Key Lab of Green Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, China.
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Active targeting uses molecular fragments that bind receptors overexpressed on cell surfaces to deliver cargoes, and this selective delivery to diseased over healthy tissue is valuable in diagnostic imaging and therapy. For instance, targeted near-infrared (near-IR) dyes can mark tissue to be excised in surgery, and radiologists can use active targeting to concentrate agents for positron emission tomography (PET) in tumor tissue to monitor tumor metastases. Selective delivery to diseased tissue is also valuable in some treatments wherein therapeutic indexes (toxic/effective doses) are key determinants of efficacy. However, active targeting will only work for cells expressing the pivotal cell surface receptor that is targeted. That is a problem because tumors, even ones derived from the same organ, are not homogeneous, patient-to-patient variability is common, and heterogeneity can occur even in the same patient, so monotherapy with one actively targeted agent is unlikely to be uniformly effective. A particular category of fluorescent heptamethine cyanine-7 (Cy-7) dyes, here called tumor seeking dyes, offer a way to circumvent this problem because they selectively accumulate in any solid tumor. Furthermore, they persist in tumor tissue for several days, sometimes longer than 72 h. Consequently, tumor seeking dyes are near-IR fluorescent targeting agents that, unlike mAbs (monoclonal antibodies), accumulate in any solid lesion, thus overcoming tumor heterogeneity, and persist there for long periods, circumventing the rapid clearance problems that bedevil low molecular mass drugs. Small molecule imaging agents and drugs attached to tumor-seeking dyes have high therapeutic indices and long residence times in cancer cells and tumor tissue. All this sounds too good to be true. We believe most of this is true, but the controversy is associated with how and why these characteristics arise. Prior to our studies, the prevailing hypothesis, often repeated, was that tumor seeking dyes are uptaken by organic anion transporting polypeptides (OATPs) overexpressed on cancer cells. This Account summarizes evidence indicating tumor seeking Cy-7 dyes have exceptional accumulation and persistence properties because they covalently bind to albumin in vivo. That adduct formation provides a convenient way to form albumin-bound pharmaceuticals labeled with near-IR fluorophores which can be tracked in vivo. This understanding may facilitate more rapid developments of generally applicable actively targeted reagents.
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- Syed Muhammad Usama
- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, Box 30012, College Station, Texas 77842, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, Box 30012, College Station, Texas 77842, United States
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Li S, Li X, Lu Y, Hou M, Xu Z, Li B. A thiol-responsive and self-immolative podophyllotoxin prodrug for cancer therapy. Tetrahedron Lett 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2021.153044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Li Y, Zhou Y, Yue X, Dai Z. Cyanine conjugates in cancer theranostics. Bioact Mater 2021; 6:794-809. [PMID: 33024900 PMCID: PMC7528000 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioactmat.2020.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2020] [Revised: 09/11/2020] [Accepted: 09/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Cyanine is a meritorious fluorogenic core for the construction of fluorescent probes and its phototherapeutic potential has been enthusiastically explored as well. Alternatively, the covalent conjugation of cyanine with other potent therapeutic agents not only boosts its therapeutic efficacy but also broadens its therapeutic modality. Herein, we summarize miscellaneous cyanine-therapeutic agent conjugates in cancer theranostics from literature published between 2014 and 2020. The application scenarios of such theranostic cyanine conjugates covered common cancer therapeutic modalities, including chemotherapy, phototherapy and targeted therapy. Besides, cyanine conjugates that serve as nanocarriers for drug delivery are introduced as well. In an additional section, we analyze the potential of these conjugates for clinical translation. Overall, this review is aimed to stimulate research interest in exploring unattempted therapeutic agents and novel conjugation strategies and hopefully, accelerate clinical translation in this field.
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- Yang Li
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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Shi C, Zhou Z, Lin H, Gao J. Imaging Beyond Seeing: Early Prognosis of Cancer Treatment. SMALL METHODS 2021; 5:e2001025. [PMID: 34927817 DOI: 10.1002/smtd.202001025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2020] [Revised: 11/24/2020] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Assessing cancer response to therapeutic interventions has been realized as an important course to early predict curative efficacy and treatment outcomes due to tumor heterogeneity. Compared to the traditional invasive tissue biopsy method, molecular imaging techniques have fundamentally revolutionized the ability to evaluate cancer response in a spatiotemporal manner. The past few years has witnessed a paradigm shift on the efforts from manufacturing functional molecular imaging probes for seeing a tumor to a vantage stage of interpreting the tumor response during different treatments. This review is to stand by the current development of advanced imaging technologies aiming to predict the treatment response in cancer therapy. Special interest is placed on the systems that are able to provide rapid and noninvasive assessment of pharmacokinetic drug fates (e.g., drug distribution, release, and activation) and tumor microenvironment heterogeneity (e.g., tumor cells, macrophages, dendritic cells (DCs), T cells, and inflammatory cells). The current status, practical significance, and future challenges of the emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technology and machine learning in the applications of medical imaging fields is overviewed. Ultimately, the authors hope that this review is timely to spur research interest in molecular imaging and precision medicine.
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- Changrong Shi
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Vaccinology and Molecular Diagnostics and Center for Molecular Imaging and Translational Medicine, School of Public Health, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Vaccinology and Molecular Diagnostics and Center for Molecular Imaging and Translational Medicine, School of Public Health, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361102, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, The Key Laboratory for Chemical Biology of Fujian Province and Department of Chemical Biology, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, The Key Laboratory for Chemical Biology of Fujian Province and Department of Chemical Biology, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
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Nonsurgical treatment of skin cancer with local delivery of bioadhesive nanoparticles. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:2020575118. [PMID: 33526595 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2020575118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Keratinocyte-derived carcinomas, including squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), comprise the most common malignancies. Surgical excision is the therapeutic standard but is not always clinically feasible, and currently available alternatives are limited to superficial tumors. To address the need for a nonsurgical treatment for nodular skin cancers like SCC, we developed a bioadhesive nanoparticle (BNP) drug delivery system composed of biodegradable polymer, poly(lactic acid)-hyperbranched polyglycerol (PLA-HPG), encapsulating camptothecin (CPT). Nanoparticles (NPs) of PLA-HPG are nonadhesive NPs (NNPs), which are stealthy in their native state, but we have previously shown that conversion of the vicinal diols of HPG to aldehydes conferred NPs the ability to form strong covalent bonds with amine-rich surfaces. Herein, we show that these BNPs have significantly enhanced binding to SCC tumor cell surfaces and matrix proteins, thereby significantly enhancing the therapeutic efficacy of intratumoral drug delivery. Tumor injection of BNP-CPT resulted in tumor retention of CPT at ∼50% at 10 d postinjection, while CPT was undetectable in NNP-CPT or free (intralipid) CPT-injected tumors at that time. BNP-CPT also significantly reduced tumor burden, with a portion (∼20%) of BNP-CPT-treated established tumors showing histologic cure. Larger, more fully established PDV SCC tumors treated with a combination of BNP-CPT and immunostimulating CpG oligodeoxynucleotides exhibited enhanced survival relative to controls, revealing the potential for BNP delivery to be used along with local tumor immunotherapy. Taken together, these results indicate that percutaneous delivery of a chemotherapeutic agent via BNPs, with or without adjuvant immunostimulation, represents a viable, nonsurgical alternative for treating cutaneous malignancy.
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Chen X, Bian Y, Li M, Zhang Y, Gao X, Su D. Activatable Off-on Near-Infrared QCy7-based Fluorogenic Probes for Bioimaging. Chem Asian J 2020; 15:3983-3994. [PMID: 33034939 DOI: 10.1002/asia.202001057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2020] [Revised: 10/08/2020] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The activatable off-on near-infrared QCy7-based fluorogenic probes have emerged as powerful modalities for detecting and monitoring biological analytes and understanding their biological processes in cells and organisms. The use of biomarker-activated QCy7-based probes enables simple synthesis, minimum photo-damage to biological samples, and minimum background interference from biological systems. In this minireview, we aim to provide a rigorous but concise overview of activatable QCy7-based fluorogenic probes by reporting the significant progress made in recent years. The design strategies and the main applications of accurate detection and imaging of disease-related biomarkers (including ROS/RSS, enzymes, metal ions, and other related species) were reasonably analyzed and discussed. The potential challenges and prospects of activatable QCy7-based fluorogenic probes are also emphasized to further advance the development of new methods for biomarker detection and bioimaging.
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- Xueqian Chen
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, P. R. China
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Zhao X, Lei H, Cheng Y, Wu Y, Zhang M, He G, Pei D, Dong Z, Li A, Zhang Y. A polymeric prodrug for non-invasive, real-time reporting drug release based on “turn-on” fluorescent probes. REACT FUNCT POLYM 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.reactfunctpolym.2020.104649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Zhang W, Jia Q, Meng Y, Chen S, Zhang Y, Wang KP, Gan LH, Hu ZQ. Dimethylamino naphthalene-based fluorescent probes for hydrogen sulfide detection and living cell imaging. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2020; 228:117835. [PMID: 31780309 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2019.117835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2019] [Revised: 11/19/2019] [Accepted: 11/19/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Hydrogen sulfide shows great importance in various physiological and biochemical processes. The development of fluorescence probes for facile and efficient detection of H2S has attracted increasing attention of researchers. Herein, we synthesized two fluorescence probes based on simple naphthalene structure for detection of H2S. Upon reaction with H2S, the probe DN-DM exhibited a red fluorescence emission with large Stokes shift. The probe showed high sensitivity, pH insensitivity and good selectivity for H2S over other analytes including common biothiols. The detection mechanism was based on the thiolysis of the dinitrophenyl ether moiety, which was confirmed by 1H NMR spectral analysis. The DFT calculation was also performed for a deeper understanding of the photophysical properties. In addition, these probes showed good cell-membrane permeability and could be utilized for detection of H2S in living cells.
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- Wenxuan Zhang
- State Key Laboratory Base of Eco-chemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory Base of Eco-chemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory Base of Eco-chemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory Base of Eco-chemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, PR China.
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- State Key Laboratory Base of Eco-chemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory Base of Eco-chemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, PR China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing 400715, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory Base of Eco-chemical Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266042, PR China.
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Mo S, Zhang X, Hameed S, Zhou Y, Dai Z. Glutathione-responsive disassembly of disulfide dicyanine for tumor imaging with reduction in background signal intensity. Theranostics 2020; 10:2130-2140. [PMID: 32104501 PMCID: PMC7019170 DOI: 10.7150/thno.39673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2019] [Accepted: 12/10/2019] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence imaging has been proved as an effective modality in identifying the tumor border and distinguishing the tumor cells from healthy tissue during the oncological surgery. Developing NIR fluorescent probes with high tumor to background (T/B) signal is essential for the complete debulking of the tumor, which will prolong the survival rate of tumor patients. However, the nonspecific binding and "always-on" properties of the conventional fluorescent probes leads to high background signals and poor specificity. Method: To address this problem, glutathione (GSH)-responsive, two disulfide-bonded dicyanine dyes (ss-diCy5 and ss-diNH800CW) were synthesized. As synthesized dyes are quenched under normal physiological conditions, however, once reached to the tumor site, these dyes are capable of emitting strong fluorescence signals primarily because of the cleavage of the disulfide bond in the tumor microenvironment with high GSH concentration. Besides, the GSH-responsive behavior of these dyes was monitored using the UV-vis and fluorescence spectroscopy. The diagnostic accuracy of the aforementioned dyes was also tested both in tumor cells and 4T1-bearing mice. Results: The fluorescence signal intensity of disulfide dicyanine dyes was quenched up to 89% compared to the mono cyanine dyes, thus providing a very low fluorescence background. However, when the disulfide dicyanine dye reaches the tumor site, the dicyanine is cleaved by GSH into two mono-dyes with high fluorescence strength, thus producing strong fluorescent signals upon excitation. The fluorescent signal of the dicyanine was enhanced by up to 27-fold after interacting with the GSH solution. In vivo xenografts tumor studies further revealed that the fluorescence signals of aforementioned dyes can be quickly recovered in the solid tumor. Conclusion: In summary, the disulfide dicyanines dyes can provide a promising platform for specific tumor-activatable fluorescence imaging with improved T/B value.
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- Shanyan Mo
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
- College of Life Science and Bioengineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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Xu Y, Huang Y, Lu W, Liu S, Xiao Y, Yu J. 4-Carboxyphenylboronic acid-decorated, redox-sensitive rod-shaped nano-micelles fabricated through co-assembling strategy for active targeting and synergistic co-delivery of camptothecin and gemcitabine. Eur J Pharm Biopharm 2019; 144:193-206. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpb.2019.09.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2019] [Revised: 09/16/2019] [Accepted: 09/23/2019] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Sun T, Zhang G, Wang Q, Guo Z, Chen Q, Chen X, Lu Y, Zhang Y, Zhang Y, Guo Q, Gao X, Cheng Y, Jiang C. Pre-blocked molecular shuttle as an in-situ real-time theranostics. Biomaterials 2019; 204:46-58. [PMID: 30878796 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2019.02.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2018] [Revised: 01/23/2019] [Accepted: 02/19/2019] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Real-time monitor of drug-release from drug formulations in a noninvasive way can provide spatio-temporal information for drug activation and guide further clinical rational administration. In this work, a molecular shuttle, as a typical nanosized artificial molecular machine, was managed to act as a conceptually-new nanotheranostics for oxaliplatin. A post-recognition strategy was utilized, where a default supramolecular-dye couple was pre-blocked. The rational design, synthesis, characterization and proof-of-concept of this strategy were described in detail. The drug-release upon reducing environment can be translated into near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence signal (OFF-to-ON), allowing to track the drug-release procedure by multi-modal images including IVIS, FLECT and photoacoustic imaging. The versatile nanotheranostics system can target to triple negative breast tumor via conjugated F3 peptide, and show an improved anti-tumor efficacy with much lower side effect. The intelligent nanotheranostics system based on molecular shuttle provides new reference for precision medicine in preclinical trial and postclinical evaluation.
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- Tao Sun
- Key Laboratory of Smart Drug Delivery (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University, 826 Zhangheng Road, Shanghai, 201203, PR China
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- Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Medical Physics and Image Processing Technology, School of Physics and Electronics & Institute of Materials and Clean Energy, Shandong Normal University, 1 University Road, Jinan, 250358, PR China
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- Department of Interventional Radiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, 197 Ruijin Er Road, Shanghai, 200025, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Smart Drug Delivery (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University, 826 Zhangheng Road, Shanghai, 201203, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Smart Drug Delivery (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University, 826 Zhangheng Road, Shanghai, 201203, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Smart Drug Delivery (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University, 826 Zhangheng Road, Shanghai, 201203, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Smart Drug Delivery (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University, 826 Zhangheng Road, Shanghai, 201203, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Smart Drug Delivery (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University, 826 Zhangheng Road, Shanghai, 201203, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Smart Drug Delivery (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University, 826 Zhangheng Road, Shanghai, 201203, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Smart Drug Delivery (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University, 826 Zhangheng Road, Shanghai, 201203, PR China
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- Department of Neurosurgery and Institute of Neurosurgery, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy West China Hospital, West China Medical School, Sichuan University/Collaborative Innovation Center for Biotherapy, 24 Renmin Nan Road, Chengdu, 610041, PR China
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- Department of Neurosurgery and Institute of Neurosurgery, State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy West China Hospital, West China Medical School, Sichuan University/Collaborative Innovation Center for Biotherapy, 24 Renmin Nan Road, Chengdu, 610041, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Smart Drug Delivery (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, Department of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University, 826 Zhangheng Road, Shanghai, 201203, PR China.
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Smart GSH-responsive camptothecin delivery systems for treatment of tumors and real-time monitoring in vivo and in vitro were described.
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- Dan Zhang
- Shaanxi Province Key Laboratory of Catalytic Foundation and Application
- School of Chemistry and Environment Science
- Shaanxi University of Technology
- Hanzhong 723001
- China
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- Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Industrial Automation
- School of Mechanical Engineering
- Shaanxi University of Technology
- Hanzhong 723001
- China
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- Shaanxi Province Key Laboratory of Catalytic Foundation and Application
- School of Chemistry and Environment Science
- Shaanxi University of Technology
- Hanzhong 723001
- China
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- Shaanxi Province Key Laboratory of Catalytic Foundation and Application
- School of Chemistry and Environment Science
- Shaanxi University of Technology
- Hanzhong 723001
- China
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Oh JK. Disassembly and tumor-targeting drug delivery of reduction-responsive degradable block copolymer nanoassemblies. Polym Chem 2019. [DOI: 10.1039/c8py01808a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Review on recent strategies to synthesize novel disulfide-containing reductively-degradable block copolymers and their nanoassemblies as being classified with the number, position, and location of the disulfide linkages toward effective tumor-targeting intracellular drug delivery exhibiting enhanced release of encapsulated drugs.
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- Jung Kwon Oh
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Concordia University
- Montreal
- Canada H4B 1R6
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Ji C, Gao Q, Dong X, Yin W, Gu Z, Gan Z, Zhao Y, Yin M. A Size-Reducible Nanodrug with an Aggregation-Enhanced Photodynamic Effect for Deep Chemo-Photodynamic Therapy. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201807602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Chendong Ji
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering; Beijing Laboratory of Biomedical Materials; Beijing University of Chemical Technology; China
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- Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety Institute of High Energy Physics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; China
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- Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety Institute of High Energy Physics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; China
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- Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety Institute of High Energy Physics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; China
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- Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety Institute of High Energy Physics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering; Beijing Laboratory of Biomedical Materials; Beijing University of Chemical Technology; China
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- Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety Institute of High Energy Physics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering; Beijing Laboratory of Biomedical Materials; Beijing University of Chemical Technology; China
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Ji C, Gao Q, Dong X, Yin W, Gu Z, Gan Z, Zhao Y, Yin M. A Size-Reducible Nanodrug with an Aggregation-Enhanced Photodynamic Effect for Deep Chemo-Photodynamic Therapy. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018; 57:11384-11388. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201807602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 159] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- Chendong Ji
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering; Beijing Laboratory of Biomedical Materials; Beijing University of Chemical Technology; China
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- Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety Institute of High Energy Physics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; China
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- Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety Institute of High Energy Physics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; China
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- Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety Institute of High Energy Physics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; China
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- Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety Institute of High Energy Physics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering; Beijing Laboratory of Biomedical Materials; Beijing University of Chemical Technology; China
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- Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety Institute of High Energy Physics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering; Beijing Laboratory of Biomedical Materials; Beijing University of Chemical Technology; China
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Whang CH, Yoo E, Hur SK, Kim KS, Kim D, Jo S. A highly GSH-sensitive SN-38 prodrug with an "OFF-to-ON" fluorescence switch as a bifunctional anticancer agent. Chem Commun (Camb) 2018; 54:9031-9034. [PMID: 30047958 DOI: 10.1039/c8cc05010d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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SN-38 (7-ethyl-10-hydroxy-camptothecin) is an active metabolite of irinotecan (CPT-11) and the most potent camptothecin analogue. In this study, 2,4-dinitrobenzene sulfonyl (DNS) was covalently conjugated as a GSH-sensitive trigger to 10'-OH of SN-38 to yield a GSH-sensitive prodrug, denoted as DNS-SN38, with virtually quenched fluorescence due to donor-excited photo-induced electron transfer (d-PeT). By investigating DNS-SN38's activation properties upon fluorescence restoration and cytotoxic potency against ovarian cancer cell lines (A2780 and m-Cherry + OCSC1-F2), its potential applicability as a useful chemotherapeutic agent was demonstrated.
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- Chang-Hee Whang
- Department of Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery, School of Pharmacy, The University of Mississippi, University, MS 38655, USA.
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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- Department of Molecular & Cellular Medicine, College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery, School of Pharmacy, The University of Mississippi, University, MS 38655, USA.
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy, Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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- Department of Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery, School of Pharmacy, The University of Mississippi, University, MS 38655, USA.
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Zhang Y, Zhang H, Wang Z, Jin Y. pH-Sensitive graphene oxide conjugate purpurin-18 methyl ester photosensitizer nanocomplex in photodynamic therapy. NEW J CHEM 2018. [DOI: 10.1039/c8nj00439k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A GO–Pu18 composite showed excellent photodynamic bioactivity and pH-sensitive drug release behavior.
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- Ying Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Photochemistry Biomaterials and Energy Storage Materials of Heilongjiang Province
- College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
- Harbin Normal University
- Harbin
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Photochemistry Biomaterials and Energy Storage Materials of Heilongjiang Province
- College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
- Harbin Normal University
- Harbin
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Photochemistry Biomaterials and Energy Storage Materials of Heilongjiang Province
- College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
- Harbin Normal University
- Harbin
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Photochemistry Biomaterials and Energy Storage Materials of Heilongjiang Province
- College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
- Harbin Normal University
- Harbin
- China
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Zhang H, Fang Z. A novel glutathione-triggered theranostic prodrug for anticancer and imaging in living cells. RSC Adv 2018; 8:11419-11423. [PMID: 35542771 PMCID: PMC9079131 DOI: 10.1039/c8ra00271a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2018] [Accepted: 03/07/2018] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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A novel theranostic prodrug was designed and synthesized by conjugating a naphthalimide derivative with vitamin D2via a disulfide linker. The prodrug featured a highly selective detection process for glutathione (GSH) and showed a red-shifted fluorescence within 30 min. Notably, it also exhibited antitumor activity similar to vitamin D2 and could be monitored by cellular imaging. A novel glutathione-triggered theranostic prodrug was synthesized by conjugating the naphthalimide chromophore and vitamin D2via a disulfide bond.![]()
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- Hengrui Zhang
- School of Chemical Engineering
- Nanjing University of Science & Technology
- Nanjing 210094
- P. R. China
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- School of Chemical Engineering
- Nanjing University of Science & Technology
- Nanjing 210094
- P. R. China
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Huang Y, Gao Y, Chen T, Xu Y, Lu W, Yu J, Xiao Y, Liu S. Reduction-Triggered Release of CPT from Acid-Degradable Polymeric Prodrug Micelles Bearing Boronate Ester Bonds with Enhanced Cellular Uptake. ACS Biomater Sci Eng 2017; 3:3364-3375. [DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.7b00618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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- Yushu Huang
- Shanghai
Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug
Development, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, PR China
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- Shanghai
Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug
Development, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, PR China
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- Shanghai
Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug
Development, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, PR China
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- Shanghai
Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug
Development, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, PR China
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- Shanghai
Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug
Development, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, PR China
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- Shanghai
Engineering Research Center of Molecular Therapeutics and New Drug
Development, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, PR China
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- Department
of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Changzheng Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai 200003, PR China
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- Department
of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Changzheng Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai 200003, PR China
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Cai K, Wang AZ, Yin L, Cheng J. Bio-nano interface: The impact of biological environment on nanomaterials and their delivery properties. J Control Release 2017; 263:211-222. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2016.11.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2016] [Accepted: 11/28/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Feng T, Chua HJ, Zhao Y. Reduction-Responsive Carbon Dots for Real-Time Ratiometric Monitoring of Anticancer Prodrug Activation in Living Cells. ACS Biomater Sci Eng 2017; 3:1535-1541. [PMID: 33429640 DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.7b00264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Anticancer prodrugs have been extensively investigated to lower toxic side effects of common chemotherapeutic agents in biomedical fields. To illustrate the activation mechanism of anticancer prodrugs, fluorescent dyes or single-emission intensity alteration-based approaches have been widely used. However, fluorescent dyes often suffer from poor photostability and chemical stability, and single-emission intensity alteration-based methods cannot avoid the influence from uncontrolled microenvironment changes in living samples. To overcome these obstacles, herein, a fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based ratiometric approach was successfully developed for real-time monitoring of anticancer prodrug activation. Excitation-wavelength-dependent and full-color-emissive carbon dots (CDs) were used as drug nanocarriers and FRET donor, and a cisplatin(IV) prodrug was selected as the model drug and the linker to load the Dabsyl quencher on the surface of CDs. Owing to the FRET effect, the blue fluorescence of CDs was effectively quenched by the Dabsyl unit. Under reductive conditions in solution or in living cells for the reduction of cisplatin(IV) prodrug to Pt(II) species, the blue fluorescence of CDs increased over time, without apparent intensity change for green or red fluorescence. Thus, the gradually enhanced intensity ratio of blue-to-green or blue-to-red fluorescence could be indicative of the real-time reduction of the cisplatin(IV) prodrug to cytotoxic Pt(II) species. This ratiometric method could exclude the influence from complex biological microenvironments by using green or red fluorescence of CDs as an internal reference, which provides new insights into the activation of the cisplatin(IV) prodrug and offers a great opportunity to design safe and effective anticancer therapeutics.
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- Tao Feng
- Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, 637371 Singapore
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- Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, 637371 Singapore
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- Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 21 Nanyang Link, 637371 Singapore.,School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639798 Singapore
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Xu Z, Shi X, Hou M, Xue P, Gao YE, Liu S, Kang Y. Disassembly of amphiphilic small molecular prodrug with fluorescence switch induced by pH and folic acid receptors for targeted delivery and controlled release. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 2017; 150:50-58. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2016.11.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2016] [Revised: 11/08/2016] [Accepted: 11/16/2016] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Gao M, Yu F, Lv C, Choo J, Chen L. Fluorescent chemical probes for accurate tumor diagnosis and targeting therapy. Chem Soc Rev 2017; 46:2237-2271. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cs00908e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 527] [Impact Index Per Article: 75.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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This review focuses on small molecular ligand-targeted fluorescent imaging probes and fluorescent theranostics, including their design strategies and applications in clinical tumor treatment.
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- Min Gao
- Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation
- Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yantai 264003
- China
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- Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation
- Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yantai 264003
- China
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- Department of Respiratory Medicine
- Affiliated Hospital of Binzhou Medical University
- Binzhou 256603
- China
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- Department of Bionano Engineering
- Hanyang University
- Ansan 426-791
- South Korea
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- Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes and Ecological Remediation
- Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yantai 264003
- China
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Xu Z, Hou M, Shi X, Gao YE, Xue P, Liu S, Kang Y. Rapidly cell-penetrating and reductive milieu-responsive nanoaggregates assembled from an amphiphilic folate-camptothecin prodrug for enhanced drug delivery and controlled release. Biomater Sci 2017; 5:444-454. [DOI: 10.1039/c6bm00800c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Self-assembled small molecular prodrug loaded with camptothecin in response to glutathione and folate receptors for combined tumour detection and treatment.
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- Zhigang Xu
- Institute for Clean Energy and Advanced Materials
- Faculty for Materials and Energy
- Southwest University
- Chongqing
- P. R. China
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- Institute for Clean Energy and Advanced Materials
- Faculty for Materials and Energy
- Southwest University
- Chongqing
- P. R. China
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- Institute for Clean Energy and Advanced Materials
- Faculty for Materials and Energy
- Southwest University
- Chongqing
- P. R. China
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- Institute for Clean Energy and Advanced Materials
- Faculty for Materials and Energy
- Southwest University
- Chongqing
- P. R. China
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- Institute for Clean Energy and Advanced Materials
- Faculty for Materials and Energy
- Southwest University
- Chongqing
- P. R. China
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
- Nanyang Technological University
- Singapore 637459
- Singapore
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- Institute for Clean Energy and Advanced Materials
- Faculty for Materials and Energy
- Southwest University
- Chongqing
- P. R. China
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Xie H, Xu X, Chen J, Li L, Wang J, Fang T, Zhou L, Wang H, Zheng S. Rational design of multifunctional small-molecule prodrugs for simultaneous suppression of cancer cell growth and metastasis in vitro and in vivo. Chem Commun (Camb) 2016; 52:5601-4. [PMID: 27027105 DOI: 10.1039/c5cc10367c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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We present a design concept for multifunctional prodrugs that simultaneously induce apoptosis and suppress cancer cell metastasis in vitro and in vivo. These "all-in-one" prodrug constructs possess therapeutic potential as novel "integrative" platforms for metastatic cancer treatment.
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- Haiyang Xie
- The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Key Laboratory of Combined Multi-organ Transplantation, Ministry of Public Health, Key Laboratory of Organ Transplantation of Zhejiang Province, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310003, P. R. China.
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- The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Key Laboratory of Combined Multi-organ Transplantation, Ministry of Public Health, Key Laboratory of Organ Transplantation of Zhejiang Province, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310003, P. R. China.
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- The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Key Laboratory of Combined Multi-organ Transplantation, Ministry of Public Health, Key Laboratory of Organ Transplantation of Zhejiang Province, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310003, P. R. China.
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- The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Key Laboratory of Combined Multi-organ Transplantation, Ministry of Public Health, Key Laboratory of Organ Transplantation of Zhejiang Province, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310003, P. R. China.
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- The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Key Laboratory of Combined Multi-organ Transplantation, Ministry of Public Health, Key Laboratory of Organ Transplantation of Zhejiang Province, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310003, P. R. China.
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- Jinhua People's Hospital, Jinhua, Zhejiang Province 321000, P. R. China
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- The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Key Laboratory of Combined Multi-organ Transplantation, Ministry of Public Health, Key Laboratory of Organ Transplantation of Zhejiang Province, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310003, P. R. China.
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- The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Key Laboratory of Combined Multi-organ Transplantation, Ministry of Public Health, Key Laboratory of Organ Transplantation of Zhejiang Province, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310003, P. R. China.
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- The First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Key Laboratory of Combined Multi-organ Transplantation, Ministry of Public Health, Key Laboratory of Organ Transplantation of Zhejiang Province, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310003, P. R. China.
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Pal S, Ramu V, Taye N, Mogare DG, Yeware AM, Sarkar D, Reddy DS, Chattopadhyay S, Das A. GSH Induced Controlled Release of Levofloxacin from a Purpose-Built Prodrug: Luminescence Response for Probing the Drug Release in Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. Bioconjug Chem 2016; 27:2062-70. [PMID: 27506475 DOI: 10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.6b00324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Fluoroquinolones are third-generation broad spectrum bactericidal antibiotics and work against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. Levofloxacin (L), a fluoroquinolone, is widely used in anti-infective chemotherapy and treatment of urinary tract infection and pneumonia. The main pathogen for urinary tract infections is Escherichia coli, and Streptococcus pneumoniae is responsible for pneumonia, predominantly a lower respiratory tract infection. Poor permeability of L leads to the use of higher dose of this drug and excess drug in the outer cellular fluid leads to central nervous system (CNS) abnormality. One way to counter this is to improve the lipophilicity of the drug molecule, and accordingly, we have synthesized two new Levofloxacin derivatives, which participated in the spatiotemporal release of drug via disulfide bond cleavage induced by glutathione (GSH). Recent studies with Streptococcus mutants suggest that it is localized in epithelial lining fluid (ELF) of the normal lower respiratory tract and the effective [GSH] in ELF is ∼430 μM. E. coli typically cause urinary tract infections and the concentration of GSH in porcine bladder epithelium is reported as 0.6 mM for a healthy human. Thus, for the present study we have chosen two important bacteria (Gram + ve and Gram - ve), which are operational in regions having high extracellular GSH concentration. Interestingly, this supports our design of new lipophilic Levofloxacin based prodrugs, which released effective drug on reaction with GSH. Higher lipophilicity favored improved uptake of the prodrugs. Site specific release of the drug (L) could be achieved following a glutathione mediated biochemical transformation process through cleavage of a disulfide bond of these purpose-built prodrugs. Further, appropriate design helped us to demonstrate that it is possible also to control the kinetics of the drug release from respective prodrugs. Associated luminescence enhancement helps in probing the release of the drug from the prodrug in bacteria and helps in elucidating the mechanistic pathway of the transformation. Such an example is scarce in the contemporary literature.
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- Suman Pal
- Organic Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory , Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 411008, Maharashtra, India
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- Organic Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory , Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 411008, Maharashtra, India
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- Chromatin and Disease Biology Lab, National Centre for Cell Science , Ganeshkhind, Pune 411007, India
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- Chromatin and Disease Biology Lab, National Centre for Cell Science , Ganeshkhind, Pune 411007, India
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- Organic Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory , Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 411008, Maharashtra, India
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- Organic Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory , Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 411008, Maharashtra, India
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- Organic Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory , Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 411008, Maharashtra, India
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- Chromatin and Disease Biology Lab, National Centre for Cell Science , Ganeshkhind, Pune 411007, India
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- Organic Chemistry Division, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory , Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pune 411008, Maharashtra, India.,Central Salt and Marine Chemical Research Institute , G.B. Marg, Bhavnagar 364002, India
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Ye M, Wang X, Tang J, Guo Z, Shen Y, Tian H, Zhu WH. Dual-channel NIR activatable theranostic prodrug for in vivo spatiotemporal tracking thiol-triggered chemotherapy. Chem Sci 2016; 7:4958-4965. [PMID: 30155145 PMCID: PMC6018301 DOI: 10.1039/c6sc00970k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2016] [Accepted: 04/27/2016] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Real-time tracking for where (W), when (W), and how (H) prodrugs are delivered and activated in vivo is a great challenge for prodrug development. Disulfide linkage-based prodrugs as well as their delivery systems have been studied extensively, but the WWH question in spatial and temporal (spatiotemporal) precision remains unanswered. Herein, we present a novel prodrug of camptothecin (CPT) linked to a near-infrared (NIR) cyanine dye via a disulfide linkage (Cy-S-CPT). The cleavage of the disulfide bond in Cy-S-CPT by endogenous glutathione (GSH) can activate the anti-cancer drug CPT and induce a remarkable fluorescence shift from 825 to 650 nm, thereby providing dual fluorescent channels to real-time track the prodrug biodistribution and activation in vivo. Impressively, the dual-channel NIR fluorescence bioimaging exhibits the pervasive drug distribution, i.e., the biodistribution of the intact prodrug was traced at the 825 nm-NIR fluorescence channel, whereas the activated drug was tracked at the 650 nm red fluorescence channel. In this way, we can overcome the blind spot in the metabolism kinetics of prodrugs in a certain organ or tissue. As demonstrated, the prodrug prompts activation in all the organs, particularly in the liver after an intravenous injection, and achieves predominant accumulation and activation in tumors at 24 h post injection. Cy-S-CPT loaded in PEG-PLA nanoparticles display significantly improved therapeutic efficacy and low side effects with respect to the clinical used drug CPT-11. As a consequence, the NIR spatiotemporal bioimaging in vivo with dual fluorescence channels allows the prodrug release profile to be extracted precisely, particularly in visualizing drug-released information from complex biological systems such as mice, thereby providing a unique opportunity to take insight into the relationship between theranosis and pharmacokinetics.
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- Mingzhou Ye
- Key Laboratory of Biomass Chemical Engineering of Ministry of Education and Center for Bionanoengineering , College of Chemical and Biological Engineering , Zhejiang University , Hangzhou , Zhejiang 310027 , P. R. China .
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Institute of Fine Chemicals , Shanghai Key Laboratory of Functional Materials Chemistry , School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , East China University of Science and Technology , Shanghai 200237 , P. R. China . ;
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- Key Laboratory of Biomass Chemical Engineering of Ministry of Education and Center for Bionanoengineering , College of Chemical and Biological Engineering , Zhejiang University , Hangzhou , Zhejiang 310027 , P. R. China .
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Institute of Fine Chemicals , Shanghai Key Laboratory of Functional Materials Chemistry , School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , East China University of Science and Technology , Shanghai 200237 , P. R. China . ;
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- Key Laboratory of Biomass Chemical Engineering of Ministry of Education and Center for Bionanoengineering , College of Chemical and Biological Engineering , Zhejiang University , Hangzhou , Zhejiang 310027 , P. R. China .
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Institute of Fine Chemicals , Shanghai Key Laboratory of Functional Materials Chemistry , School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , East China University of Science and Technology , Shanghai 200237 , P. R. China . ;
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Institute of Fine Chemicals , Shanghai Key Laboratory of Functional Materials Chemistry , School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering , East China University of Science and Technology , Shanghai 200237 , P. R. China . ;
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Cao H, Yang Y, Chen X, Shao Z. Intelligent Janus nanoparticles for intracellular real-time monitoring of dual drug release. NANOSCALE 2016; 8:6754-6760. [PMID: 26952741 DOI: 10.1039/c6nr00987e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Stimuli-responsive nanomaterials have been receiving much attention as drug delivery carriers, however understanding of multi-drug release from the carriers for efficient therapeutics is highly challenging. Here, we report a novel nanosystem, Janus particle Dox-CMR-MS/Au-6MP (Dox: doxorubicin, CMR: 7-hydroxycoumarin-3-carboxylate, MS: mesoporous silica, Au: gold, 6MP: 6-mercaptopurine) with opposing MS and Au faces, which can monitor intracellular dual-drug (Dox and 6MP) controlled release in real time based on fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) and surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). The FRET acceptor Dox is attached to CMR (as a FRET donor) conjugated MS with a pH-responsive linker hydrazone, and 6MP is conjugated to the Au surface through the gold-thiol interaction. As the Janus nanoparticle enters into tumor cells, the breakage of the hydrazone bond in an acidic environment and the substitution of glutathione (GSH) overexpressed in cancer cells give rise to the release of Dox and 6MP, respectively. Thus, the change of the CMR fluorescence signal and the SERS decrease of 6MP can be used to monitor the dual-drug release within living cells in real time. In addition, this work demonstrates the enhanced anticancer effect of the designed dual-drug loaded nanosystem. Therefore, the current study may provide new perspectives for the real-time study of intelligent multi-drug delivery and release, as well as cellular responses to drug treatment.
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- Han Cao
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, P. R. China.
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- Research Center for Analysis and Measurement, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, P. R. China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, P. R. China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, P. R. China.
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Kamaly N, Yameen B, Wu J, Farokhzad OC. Degradable Controlled-Release Polymers and Polymeric Nanoparticles: Mechanisms of Controlling Drug Release. Chem Rev 2016; 116:2602-63. [PMID: 26854975 PMCID: PMC5509216 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1555] [Impact Index Per Article: 194.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- Nazila Kamaly
- Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Biomaterials, Department of Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
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- Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Biomaterials, Department of Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
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- Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Biomaterials, Department of Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
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- Laboratory of Nanomedicine and Biomaterials, Department of Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States
- King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia
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Sun T, Shu L, Shen J, Ruan C, Zhao Z, Jiang C. Photo and redox-responsive vesicles assembled from Bola-type superamphiphiles. RSC Adv 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ra05808f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Photo and redox-responsive vesicles assembled from “Bola-type” superamphiphiles were developed.
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- Tao Sun
- Key Laboratory of Smart Drug Delivery (Ministry of Education)
- State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology
- Department of Pharmaceutics
- School of Pharmacy
- Fudan University
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- Key Laboratory of Smart Drug Delivery (Ministry of Education)
- State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology
- Department of Pharmaceutics
- School of Pharmacy
- Fudan University
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Weifang University
- Weifang 261061
- PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Smart Drug Delivery (Ministry of Education)
- State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology
- Department of Pharmaceutics
- School of Pharmacy
- Fudan University
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- Key Laboratory of Smart Drug Delivery (Ministry of Education)
- State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology
- Department of Pharmaceutics
- School of Pharmacy
- Fudan University
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- Key Laboratory of Smart Drug Delivery (Ministry of Education)
- State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology
- Department of Pharmaceutics
- School of Pharmacy
- Fudan University
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Liu Y, Pei Q, Chen L, Li Z, Xie Z. Reduction-responsive fluorescence off–on BODIPY–camptothecin conjugates for self-reporting drug release. J Mater Chem B 2016; 4:2332-2337. [DOI: 10.1039/c6tb00009f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A reduction-responsive fluorescence off–on theranostic prodrug with self-reporting drug release was constructed based on boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY) and therapeutic drug camptothecin (CPT) with a long flexible disulfide linker.
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- Yang Liu
- Department of Chemistry
- Northeast Normal University
- Changchun 130024
- P. R. China
- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry
- Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Changchun 130022
- P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry
- Northeast Normal University
- Changchun 130024
- P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry
- Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Changchun 130022
- P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry
- Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Changchun 130022
- P. R. China
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