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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06946-z
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21631005, 21673104, 21522102, 21503095]
- Shanghai Sailing Program [17YF1423800]
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The interactions between chiral nanomaterials and organisms are still challenging and mysterious. Here, a chiral nanodevice made of yolk-shell nanoparticles tetrahedron (UYTe), centralized with upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs), was fabricated to induce autophagy in vivo. The proposed chiral nanodevice displayed a tunable circular dichroism (CD) signal when modified with different enantiomers of glutathione (GSH). Notably, UYTe showed significant chirality-dependent autophagy-inducing ability after D-GSH-modification because the enhanced oxidative stress and accumulation in living cell. The activation of autophagy resulted in the reduced intracellular CD intensity from the disassembly of the structure. The intracellular ATP concentration was simultaneously enhanced in response to autophagy activity, which was quantitatively bio-imaged with the upconversion luminescence (UCL) signal of the UCNP that escaped from UYTe. The autophagy effect induced in vivo by the chiral UYTe was also visualized with UCL imaging, demonstrating the great potential utility of the chiral nanostructure for cellular biological applications.
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