Biomimetic
Nanotheranostics Camouflaged with Cancer
Cell Membranes Integrating Persistent Oxygen Supply and Homotypic
Targeting for Hypoxic Tumor Elimination
posted on 2021-04-23, 14:07authored byHongliang Chen, Donghui Zheng, Wenzhen Pan, Xiang Li, Bin Lv, Wenxiang Gu, Jeremiah Ong’achwa Machuki, Jiahui Chen, Weiqiang Liang, Kang Qin, Johannes Greven, Frank Hildebrand, Zhiqiang Yu, Xing Zhang, Kaijin Guo
Treatment
resistance of the tumors to photodynamic therapy (PDT)
owing to O2 deficiency largely compromised the therapeutic
efficacy, which could be addressed via modulating
oxygen levels by using O2 self-enriched nanosystems. Here,
we report on augmenting the O2-evolving strategy based
on a biomimetic, catalytic nanovehicle (named as N/P@MCC), constructed
by the catalase-immobilized hollow mesoporous nanospheres by enveloping
a cancer cell membrane (CCM), which acts as an efficient nanocontainer
to accommodate nitrogen-doped graphene quantum dots (N-GQDs) and protoporphyrin
IX (PpIX). Inheriting the virtues of biomimetic CCM cloaking, the
CCM-derived shell conferred N/P@MCC nanovehicles with highly specific
self-recognition and homotypic targeting toward cancerous cells, ensuring
tumor-specific accumulation and superior circulation durations. N-GQDs,
for the first time, have been evidenced as a new dual-functional nanoagents
with PTT and PDT capacities, enabling the generation of 1O2 for PDT and inducing local low-temperature hyperthermia
for thermally ablating cancer cells and infrared thermal imaging (IRT).
Leveraging the intrinsic catalytic features of catalase, such N/P@MCC
nanovehicles effectively scavenged the excessive H2O2 to sustainably evolve oxygen for a synchronous O2 self-supply and hypoxia alleviation, with an additional benefit
because the resulting O2 bubbles could function as an echo
amplifier, leading to the sufficient echogenic reflectivity for ultrasound
imaging. Concurrently, the elevated O2 reacted with N-GQDs
and PpIX to elicit a maximally increased 1O2 output for augmented PDT. Significantly, the ultrasound imaging
coupled with fluorescence imaging, IRT, performs a tumor-modulated
trimodal bioimaging effect. Overall, this offers a paradigm to rationally
explore O2 self-supply strategies focused on versatile
nanotheranostics for hypoxic tumor elimination.