Issue 19, 2024

Cancer nutritional-immunotherapy with NIR-II laser-controlled ATP release based on material repurposing strategy

Abstract

Enlightened by the great success of the drug repurposing strategy in the pharmaceutical industry, in the current study, material repurposing is proposed where the performance of carbonyl iron powder (CIP), a nutritional intervention agent of iron supplement approved by the US FDA for iron deficiency anemia in clinic, was explored in anti-cancer treatment. Besides the abnormal iron metabolic characteristics of tumors, serving as potential targets for CIP-based cancer therapy under the repurposing paradigm, the efficacy of CIP as a catalyst in the Fenton reaction, activator for dihydroartemisinin (DHA), thus increasing the chemo-sensitivity of tumors, as well as a potent agent for NIR-II photothermal therapy (PTT) was fully evaluated in an injectable alginate hydrogel form. The CIP-ALG gel caused a rapid temperature rise in the tumor site under NIR-II laser irradiation, leading to complete ablation in the primary tumor. Further, this photothermal-ablation led to the significant release of ATP, and in the bilateral tumor model, both primary tumor ablation and inhibition of secondary tumor were observed simultaneously under the synergistic tumor treatment of nutritional-photothermal therapy (NT/PTT). Thus, material repurposing was confirmed by our pioneering trial and CIP-ALG-meditated NT/PTT/immunotherapy provides a new choice for safe and efficient tumor therapy.

Graphical abstract: Cancer nutritional-immunotherapy with NIR-II laser-controlled ATP release based on material repurposing strategy

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
11 Feb 2024
Accepted
01 Apr 2024
First published
03 Apr 2024

J. Mater. Chem. B, 2024,12, 4629-4641

Cancer nutritional-immunotherapy with NIR-II laser-controlled ATP release based on material repurposing strategy

J. Lu, Y. Wang, X. Gao, Y. Li, N. Ufurahi-Pambe, A. Fahad, Z. Jin, Z. He, Z. Guo, W. Xie, S. Wang, X. Sun, X. Wang, J. Yu, S. Che, G. Zhang, Y. Wei and L. Zhao, J. Mater. Chem. B, 2024, 12, 4629 DOI: 10.1039/D4TB00288A

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