Journal
MOLECULAR PHARMACEUTICS
Volume 10, Issue 3, Pages 857-866Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/mp300468q
Keywords
theranostic star shape nanoparticle; magnetic separation of cancer cell from whole blood; selective cancer cell imaging; photothermal killing
Funding
- NSF-PREM [DMR-0611539]
- NIH-RCMI [5G12RR013459]
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Cancer is one of the most life-threatening diseases, which causes 7.6 million deaths and around 1 trillion dollars economic loss every year. Theranostic materials are expected to improve early detection and safe treatment through personalized medicine. Driven by the needs, we report the development of a theranostic plasmonic shell- magnetic core star shape nanomaterial based approach for the targeted isolation of rare tumor cells from the whole blood sample, followed by diagnosis and photothermal destruction. Experimental data with whole blood sample spiked with SK-BR-3 cancer cell shows that Cy3 attached S6 aptamer conjugated theranostic plasmonic/magnetic nanoparticles can be used for fluorescence imaging and magnetic separation even in 0.001% mixtures. A targeted photothermal experiment using 1064 nm near-IR light at 2-3 W/cm(2) for 10 min resulted in selective irreparable cellular damage to most of the SK-BR-3 cancer cells. We discuss the possible mechanism and operating principle for the targeted imaging, separation, and photothermal destruction using theranostic magnetic/plasmonic nanotechnology. After the optimization of different parameters, this theranostic nanotechnology-driven assay could have enormous potential for applications as contrast agent and therapeutic actuators for cancer.
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