Glutathione-Priming Nanoreactors Enable Fluorophore
Core/Shell Transition for Precision Cancer Imaging
Posted on 2019-08-23 - 19:13
In
an attempt to develop an imaging probe with ultra-high sensitivity
for a broad range of tumors in vivo and inspired by the concept of
chemical synthetic nanoreactors, we designed a type of glutathione-priming
fluorescent nanoreactor (GPN) with an albumin-coating shell and hydrophobic
polymer core containing disulfide bonds, protonatable blocks, and
indocyanine green (ICG), a near-infrared fluorophore. The albumin
played multiple roles including biocompatible carriers, hydrophilic
stabilizer, “receptor” of the fluorophores, and even
targeting molecules. The protonation of the hydrophobic core triggered
the outside-to-core transport of acidic glutathione (GSH), as well
as the core-to-shell transference of ICGs after the disulfide bond
cleavage by GSH, which induced strong binding of fluorophores with
albumins on the GPN shell, initiating intensive fluorescence signals.
As a result, the GPNs demonstrated extremely high response sensitivity
and imaging contrast, proper time window, and broad cancer specificity.
In fact, an orthogonal activation pattern was found in vitro with
an ON/OFF ratio up to 24.7-fold. Furthermore, the nanoprobes specifically
amplified the tumor signals in five cancer-bearing mouse models and
actualized tumor margin delineation with a contrast up to 20-fold,
demonstrating much better imaging efficacy than the other four commercially
available probes. Therefore, the GPNs provide a new paradigm in developing
high-performance bioresponsive nanoprobes.
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Lin, Zhiqiang; Wang, Changrong; Li, Yang; Li, Ridong; Gong, Lidong; Su, Yue; et al. (2019). Glutathione-Priming Nanoreactors Enable Fluorophore
Core/Shell Transition for Precision Cancer Imaging. ACS Publications. Collection. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b11063
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AUTHORS (13)
ZL
Zhiqiang Lin
CW
Changrong Wang
YL
Yang Li
RL
Ridong Li
LG
Lidong Gong
YS
Yue Su
ZZ
Zheng Zhai
XB
Xinyu Bai
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Shiming Di
ZL
Zhao Li
AD
Anjie Dong
QZ
Qiang Zhang
YY
Yuxin Yin
KEYWORDS
GSHtumor signalsimaging probecancer specificityalbumin-coating shellimaging efficacydisulfide bond cleavageultra-high sensitivityorthogonal activation patternbiocompatible carriersICGfluorescence signalsdisulfide bondstime windowcancer-bearing mouse modelsactualized tumor margin delineationoutside-to-core transportacidic glutathionepolymer coreprotonatable blocksPrecision Cancer Imagingbioresponsive nanoprobesGPN shellnear-infrared fluorophorenanoreactorcore-to-shell transferenceimaging contrastresponse sensitivity