Journal
LANGMUIR
Volume 36, Issue 23, Pages 6345-6351Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c00191
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- International S&T Cooperation Program of China [2015DFG42240]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21628101, 21371031]
- Priority Academic Program Development (PAPD) of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
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Cutting off the energy supply by glucose oxidase (GOx) to starve cancer cells has been a feasible and efficient oncotherapy strategy. The employment of GOx can effectively starve tumor cells by aerobic hydrolysis of glucose hopefully strengthening the abnormality (including the decrease in pH, the increase of hypoxia, and toxic hydrogen peroxide) in the tumor microenvironment (TME). On this basis, we designed and fabricated a GOx-conjugated yolk-shell Ag@mSiO(2) nanoframe with Ag NPs and GOx-conjugated mesoporous silica as the yolk and the shell, respectively, to make full use of changes the GOx induces in TME. Specifically, lower pH and H2O2 could accelerate the transformation of Ag nanoparticles to poisonous Ag ions. At the same time, the anabatic hypoxia condition in turn activated chemotherapy drug tirapazamine (TPZ) to exert a chemotherapeutic effect, thereby achieving effective chemo/starvation and metal ion multimodality therapy. The drug release experiment in vitro demonstrated that the GOx is the key to the nanocarriers, which can activate the whole system. The excellent cellular uptake performances of nanocarriers were corroborated by a confocal laser scanning microscope (CLSM). In addition, its superb cancer-killing effect has been confirmed by cytotoxicity and apoptosis experiments. These results indicated that the drug-delivery system achieved the cascade cancer-killing process in situ and synergistic chemo/starvation/metal ion therapy, which has a bright prospect for treating cancer.
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