Issue 5, 2019

Chemiluminescence-initiated and in situ-enhanced photoisomerization for tissue-depth-independent photo-controlled drug release

Abstract

Tissue-penetration-depth-independent self-luminescence is highly expected to perform photoisomerization-related bioapplications in vivo to overcome the limitation of shallow tissue-penetration from external photoexcitation. However, it remains extremely challenging because of lacking a target-specific high-intensity self-luminescence to precisely and effectively drive the photoisomerization. Here, we first report a target-specific tissue-depth-independent photoisomerization in vivo by developing a target-specific initiated and in situ-enhanced chemiluminescence (one of self-luminescence) strategy that overcomes the limitation of lacking target-specific high-intensity self-luminescence. Considering that photoisomerization shows boundless glamour in drug-controlled release for disease-specific chemotherapy, we demonstrated applicability of our strategy to apply it in tumor-specific self-luminescence-controlled drug chemotherapy. Specifically, a chemiluminescence substrate and chemiluminescence fluorophore (antitumor drug, CPT) were co-encapsulated in host–guest carriers composed of cyclodextrin and the photoisomerization molecule azobenzene. Tumor-specific H2O2-induced chemiluminescence preliminarily isomerizes azobenzene, triggering the partial dissociation of host–guest carriers and CPT release. Particularly, the initially released CPT again functions as a chemiluminescence enhancer to achieve in situ enhanced chemiluminescence, assuring target-specific enhanced isomerization and CPT release. With high tumor-inhibition-rate (73%) and no obvious therapy-side-effect in vivo indicates the good efficiency and target-specificity of our chemiluminescence-driven photoisomerization. Although we only demonstrated one example of a photoisomerization-related bioapplication, namely photoisomerization-controlled drug chemotherapy, our work provides guidelines to design various target-specific tissue-depth-independent photoisomerization for bioapplications.

Graphical abstract: Chemiluminescence-initiated and in situ-enhanced photoisomerization for tissue-depth-independent photo-controlled drug release

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Article information

Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
10 Sep 2018
Accepted
09 Nov 2018
First published
10 Nov 2018
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
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Chem. Sci., 2019,10, 1401-1409

Chemiluminescence-initiated and in situ-enhanced photoisomerization for tissue-depth-independent photo-controlled drug release

Y. Tang, X. Lu, C. Yin, H. Zhao, W. Hu, X. Hu, Y. Li, Z. Yang, F. Lu, Q. Fan and W. Huang, Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 1401 DOI: 10.1039/C8SC04012E

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