Abstract
The development of activatable photosensitizers to allow for the reversible control of singlet oxygen (1O2) production for photodynamic therapy (PDT) faces great challenges. Fortunately, the flourishing field of supramolecular biotechnology provides more effective strategies for activatable PDT systems. Here, we developed a new reversible PDT on a switch that controls the 1O2 generation of self-assembled albumin nanotheranostics in vitro and in vivo. A new molecular design principle of aggregation-induced self-quenching photochromism and albumin on-photoswitching was demonstrated using a new asymmetric, synthetic diarylethene moiety DIA. The photosensitizer porphyrin and DIA were incorporated as building blocks in a glutaraldehyde-induced covalent albumin cross-linking nanoplatform, HSA-DIA-porphyrin nanoparticles (NPs). More importantly, the excellent photoswitching property of DIA enables the resultant nanoplatform to act as a facile, switchable strategy for photodynamic-immunotherapy.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2413-2422 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Journal of the American Chemical Society |
Volume | 143 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 10 Feb 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (11170042105, buctrc202004), National Natural Science Foundation of China (21502195), Natural Science Foundation key project (31630027 and 32030060), NSFC international collaboration key project (grant No. 51861135103) and NSFC-DFG project (31761133013). The authors also appreciate the support by the “Strategic Priority Research Program” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDA09030301). The authors are sincerely grateful for financial support from the Natural Science Foundation Project (31630026), Special Key Project of Technological Innovation, and Application Development in Chongqing (cstc2019jscx-dxwtBX0004). J.Y. was supported by a grant from the National Creative Research Initiative programs of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Korean government (MSIP) (No.2012R1A3A2048814).
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