Issue 35, 2018

Polymer ligand-assisted fabrication of multifunctional and redox-responsive self-assembled magnetic nanoclusters for bimodal imaging and cancer treatment

Abstract

Multifunctional nanoplatforms that can combine diagnostic functions and therapeutic capabilities are highly required for the construction of novel cancer diagnosis-therapy integrative systems. In this work, we developed multifunctional and tumor redox-responsive magnetic nanoclusters (RMNs) by the self-assembly of iron oxide nanoparticles with a chlorin e6 (Ce6)-disulfide-linked polymer ligand. The core of RMNs could enhance the T2-weighted MR contrast capability, and the surface ligand could improve the system stability and load Ce6. In addition, the obtained RMNs also exhibited excellent biocompatibility and higher cytotoxicity upon near infrared (NIR)-irradiation. These RMNs with a size of ∼90 nm can effectively facilitate their accumulation in tumor sites through the enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect and subsequently are endocytosed into a highly reductive intracellular environment that activates fluorescence and photodynamic therapeutic antitumor activity. Furthermore, the in vivo imaging and therapy results not only confirmed that RMNs can as bimodal imaging probes for the early-stage diagnosis of cancer but also demonstrated the superior photodynamic therapeutic efficiency of RMNs in suppressing tumor growth. These results indicated that RMNs show great potential for simultaneous diagnostic imaging and photodynamic therapy.

Graphical abstract: Polymer ligand-assisted fabrication of multifunctional and redox-responsive self-assembled magnetic nanoclusters for bimodal imaging and cancer treatment

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
11 Jul 2018
Accepted
09 Aug 2018
First published
09 Aug 2018

J. Mater. Chem. B, 2018,6, 5562-5569

Polymer ligand-assisted fabrication of multifunctional and redox-responsive self-assembled magnetic nanoclusters for bimodal imaging and cancer treatment

H. Y. Yang, Y. Fu, Y. Li, M. Jang, J. H. Lee and D. S. Lee, J. Mater. Chem. B, 2018, 6, 5562 DOI: 10.1039/C8TB01798K

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