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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY B
Volume 10, Issue 26, Pages 5086-5094Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d2tb00789d
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [22075056, 21861005, 22177022]
- Guangxi Natural Science Foundation of China [2019GXNSFAA185025]
- Foundation of State Key Laboratory for Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Medicinal Resources (Guangxi Normal University) [CMEMR2018-C15]
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A new metal complex CDT agent was developed to efficiently induce oxidative damage and generate large amounts of hydroxyl radicals, leading to cell death, with excellent tumor growth inhibition capability shown in in vivo experiments.
Chemodynamic therapy (CDT), which uses agents to induce cell death by decomposing endogenous hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) into highly toxic hydroxyl radicals (center dot OH), has been recognized as a promising approach to treat cancer. However, improving the efficiency of center dot OH production is considered one of the biggest challenges that limits the therapeutic efficacy of CDT. Herein, to controllably and efficiently induce oxidative damage through the production of center dot OH, we developed a new metal complex CDT agent with atomically precise structural characteristics as a deviation from traditional nanomaterial-CDT agents. The obtained CDT agent, a cinnamaldehyde derived copper(I) complex (denoted Cin-OD-Cu), was found to be continuously enriched in the mitochondria of A2780 ovarian carcinoma cells, which was accompanied by the generation of large amounts of center dot OH via Cu(I)-mediated Fenton-like reactions of H2O2, thereby stimulating oxidative stress in the mitochondria and eventually leading to cell death. Moreover, in vivo experiments showed that Cin-OD-Cu was capable of effectively inhibiting tumor growth with excellent biocompatibility. We believe this research enriches the limited selection of atomically precise metal complex CDT agents in particular for reactive oxygen species-mediated treatments aimed at inducing mitochondria oxidative damage; we anticipate that it will provide new insights into the development of novel, atomically precise agents for CDT.
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