Iron doped carbon dots based nanohybrids as a tetramodal imaging agent for gene delivery promotion and photothermal-chemodynamic cancer synergistic theranostics

Nonviral gene delivery vectors for cancer therapy still confronts great challenges as their low transfection efficiency, vague tracing and poor therapeutic effects. Recently, organic–inorganic nanohybrids show complementary and synergistic effects in nano-scaled delivery system, inspiring their appl...

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Main Authors: Tianying Luo, Yu Nie, Jiao Lu, Qunjie Bi, Zhongyuan Cai, Xu Song, Hua Ai, Rongrong Jin
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-10-01
Series:Materials & Design
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264127521004317
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author Tianying Luo
Yu Nie
Jiao Lu
Qunjie Bi
Zhongyuan Cai
Xu Song
Hua Ai
Rongrong Jin
author_facet Tianying Luo
Yu Nie
Jiao Lu
Qunjie Bi
Zhongyuan Cai
Xu Song
Hua Ai
Rongrong Jin
author_sort Tianying Luo
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description Nonviral gene delivery vectors for cancer therapy still confronts great challenges as their low transfection efficiency, vague tracing and poor therapeutic effects. Recently, organic–inorganic nanohybrids show complementary and synergistic effects in nano-scaled delivery system, inspiring their applications in gene delivery exploration. A liposomal carbon dots nanohybrids system (PEG-RLS/Fe@CDs) have been fabricated, which was composed of iron-doped carbon dots (Fe@CDs) derived from iron (II) phthalocyanine and amphiphilic lipopeptide assemblies (DSPE-mPEG2000/RLS). With its excellent photothermal conversion capability (η = 63.4%), gene transfection efficiency was increased by 3.5-fold in 4T1 tumor cell and 2-fold in animal model. Introduction of Fe@CDs in the nanohybrids could also serve as a tetramodal contrast agent for fluorescence/photoacoustic/photothermal/magnetic resonance imaging, showing up to 3 orders of magnitude enhancement in photoacoustic signal, as well as 16 °C temperature increasement after 5 min irradiation inside tumor tissue. Furthermore, both in vitro and in vivo studies confirmed the bioactivity of PEG-RLS/Fe@CDs as nanozyme for photothermal and chemodynamic synergistic therapy, leading to a noticeable inhibited tumor growth with 80% survival for at least 50 days in a breast tumor model. These revealed the PEG-RLS/Fe@CDs is a promising candidate platform for improving gene therapy by transfection enhancement, real-time tracing and tumor synergistic destruction.
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spelling doaj.art-b133878c5d44434db73e4533d4128f1c2022-12-21T23:25:02ZengElsevierMaterials & Design0264-12752021-10-01208109878Iron doped carbon dots based nanohybrids as a tetramodal imaging agent for gene delivery promotion and photothermal-chemodynamic cancer synergistic theranosticsTianying Luo0Yu Nie1Jiao Lu2Qunjie Bi3Zhongyuan Cai4Xu Song5Hua Ai6Rongrong Jin7National Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, PR ChinaNational Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, PR ChinaNational Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, PR ChinaNational Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, PR ChinaNational Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, PR ChinaNational Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, PR ChinaNational Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, PR ChinaCorresponding author at: Sichuan University, No. 24 South Section 1, Yihuan Road, Chengdu 610065, China.; National Engineering Research Center for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, PR ChinaNonviral gene delivery vectors for cancer therapy still confronts great challenges as their low transfection efficiency, vague tracing and poor therapeutic effects. Recently, organic–inorganic nanohybrids show complementary and synergistic effects in nano-scaled delivery system, inspiring their applications in gene delivery exploration. A liposomal carbon dots nanohybrids system (PEG-RLS/Fe@CDs) have been fabricated, which was composed of iron-doped carbon dots (Fe@CDs) derived from iron (II) phthalocyanine and amphiphilic lipopeptide assemblies (DSPE-mPEG2000/RLS). With its excellent photothermal conversion capability (η = 63.4%), gene transfection efficiency was increased by 3.5-fold in 4T1 tumor cell and 2-fold in animal model. Introduction of Fe@CDs in the nanohybrids could also serve as a tetramodal contrast agent for fluorescence/photoacoustic/photothermal/magnetic resonance imaging, showing up to 3 orders of magnitude enhancement in photoacoustic signal, as well as 16 °C temperature increasement after 5 min irradiation inside tumor tissue. Furthermore, both in vitro and in vivo studies confirmed the bioactivity of PEG-RLS/Fe@CDs as nanozyme for photothermal and chemodynamic synergistic therapy, leading to a noticeable inhibited tumor growth with 80% survival for at least 50 days in a breast tumor model. These revealed the PEG-RLS/Fe@CDs is a promising candidate platform for improving gene therapy by transfection enhancement, real-time tracing and tumor synergistic destruction.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264127521004317NanohybridsGene deliveryCarbon dotsTetramodal imaging agentChemodynamic therapyPhotothermal therapy
spellingShingle Tianying Luo
Yu Nie
Jiao Lu
Qunjie Bi
Zhongyuan Cai
Xu Song
Hua Ai
Rongrong Jin
Iron doped carbon dots based nanohybrids as a tetramodal imaging agent for gene delivery promotion and photothermal-chemodynamic cancer synergistic theranostics
Materials & Design
Nanohybrids
Gene delivery
Carbon dots
Tetramodal imaging agent
Chemodynamic therapy
Photothermal therapy
title Iron doped carbon dots based nanohybrids as a tetramodal imaging agent for gene delivery promotion and photothermal-chemodynamic cancer synergistic theranostics
title_full Iron doped carbon dots based nanohybrids as a tetramodal imaging agent for gene delivery promotion and photothermal-chemodynamic cancer synergistic theranostics
title_fullStr Iron doped carbon dots based nanohybrids as a tetramodal imaging agent for gene delivery promotion and photothermal-chemodynamic cancer synergistic theranostics
title_full_unstemmed Iron doped carbon dots based nanohybrids as a tetramodal imaging agent for gene delivery promotion and photothermal-chemodynamic cancer synergistic theranostics
title_short Iron doped carbon dots based nanohybrids as a tetramodal imaging agent for gene delivery promotion and photothermal-chemodynamic cancer synergistic theranostics
title_sort iron doped carbon dots based nanohybrids as a tetramodal imaging agent for gene delivery promotion and photothermal chemodynamic cancer synergistic theranostics
topic Nanohybrids
Gene delivery
Carbon dots
Tetramodal imaging agent
Chemodynamic therapy
Photothermal therapy
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264127521004317
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