Issue 6, 2024

Red fluorescent BODIPY-based nanoparticles for targeted cancer imaging-guided photodynamic therapy

Abstract

Imaging-guided diagnosis and treatment of cancer hold potential to significantly improve therapeutic accuracies and efficacies. Central to this theragnostic approach has been the use of multicomponent-based multimodal nanoparticles (NPs). Apart from this conventional approach, here we propose a design strategy for the simple and straightforward formulation of NPs based on boron dipyrromethene (BODIPY) derivatives, LaB-X (X = H, Et, and Br). Specifically, the conjugation of lactose to the inherently hydrophobic BODIPY promoted the formation of LaB-X NPs in water. Furthermore, the BODIPY backbone was subjected to distyrylation, dibromination, and diethylation to tailor the optical window and the balance between fluorescence and singlet oxygen generation capabilities. We demonstrate that while the photoinduced anticancer activities of LaB-H and LaB-Et NPs were trivial, LaB-Br NPs effectively induced the apoptotic death of hepatocellular carcinoma cells under red light irradiation while allowing fluorescence cell imaging in the phototherapeutic window. This dual fluorescence photosensitizing activity of LaB-Br NPs could be switched off and on, so that both fluorescence and singlet oxygen generation were paused during NP formation in an aqueous solution, while both processes resumed after cellular uptake, likely due to NP disassembly.

Graphical abstract: Red fluorescent BODIPY-based nanoparticles for targeted cancer imaging-guided photodynamic therapy

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
19 Sep 2023
Accepted
15 Jan 2024
First published
01 Feb 2024

Biomater. Sci., 2024,12, 1536-1548

Red fluorescent BODIPY-based nanoparticles for targeted cancer imaging-guided photodynamic therapy

C. Kim, D. K. Mai, W. Kim, I. W. Badon, J. Jo, D. Kang, S. Kim, H. Kim and J. Yang, Biomater. Sci., 2024, 12, 1536 DOI: 10.1039/D3BM01520C

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