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NANO LETTERS
Volume 17, Issue 7, Pages 4323-4329Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01382
Keywords
Polymer dot; glucose oxidase; hydrogen peroxide; hydroxyl radical; enzyme-enhanced phototherapy
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- Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China [NSFC 61335001]
- Thousand Young Talents Program
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Light has been widely used for cancer therapeutics such as photodynamic therapy (PDT) and photothermal therapy. This paper describes a strategy called enzyme-enhanced phototherapy (EEPT). for cancer treatment. We constructed a nanoparticle platform by covalent conjugation of glucose oxidase (GOx) to small polymer dots, which could be persistently immobilized into a tumor. While the malignant tumors have high glucose uptake, the GOx efficiently catalyzes the glucose oxidation with simultaneous generation of H2O2. Under light irradiation, the in situ generated H2O2 was photolyzed to produce hydroxyl radical, the most reactive oxygen species, for killing cancer cells. In vitro assays indicated that the cancer cells were destroyed by using a nanoparticle concentration at 0.2 mu g/mL and a light dose of similar to 120 J/cm(2), indicating the significantly enhanced efficiency of the EEPT method when compared to typical PDT that requires a photosensitizer of >10 mu g/mL for effective cell killing under the same light dose. Furthermore, remarkable inhibition of tumor growth was observed in xenograft-bearing mice, indicating the promise of the EEPT approach for cancer therapeutics.
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