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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
卷 143, 期 34, 页码 13738-13748出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c05617
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- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2020YFA0710700]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC) Project [51690150, 51690154, 52021002, 52073270, U19A2094]
The study presents a dual-responsive polyurethane nanoparticles containing external and built-in triggers that respond to weak pathological stimuli and degrade in a cycle amplification manner. These stimuli-responsive nanoparticles show high sensitivity to external stimuli and have promising applications in cancer therapy.
The selective activation of nanovectors in pathological tissues is of crucial importance to achieve optimized therapeutic outcomes. However, conventional stimuli-responsive nanovectors lack sufficient sensitivity because of the slight difference between pathological and normal tissues. To this end, the development of nanovectors capable of responding to weak pathological stimuli is of increasing interest. Herein, we report the fabrication of amphiphilic polyurethane nanoparticles containing both external and built-in triggers. The activation of external triggers leads to the liberation of highly reactive primary amines, which subsequently activates the built-in triggers with the release of more primary amines in a positive feedback manner, thereby triggering the degradation of micellar nanoparticles in a cycle amplification model. The generality and versatility of the cycle amplification concept have been successfully verified using three different triggers including reductive milieu, light irradiation, and esterase. We demonstrate that these stimuli-responsive nanoparticles show self-propagating degradation performance even in the presence of trace amounts of external stimuli. Moreover, we confirm that the esterase-responsive nanoparticles can discriminate cancer cells from normal ones by amplifying the esterase stimulus that is overexpressed in cancer cells, thereby enabling the selective release of encapsulated payloads and killing cancer cells. This work presents a robust strategy to fabricate stimuli-responsive nanocarriers with highly sensitive property toward external stimuli, showing promising applications in cancer therapy with minimized side effects.
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