Issue 41, 2023

Biotin-decorated hollow gold nanoshells for dual-modal imaging-guided NIR-II photothermal and radiosensitizing therapy toward breast cancer

Abstract

Radiotherapy (RT) is dominantly used in breast cancer therapy but is facing fierce side effects because of the limited difference between tumor and normal tissues in response to ionizing radiation. Herein, we construct a core-shell nanoparticle of UiO-66-NH2@AuNS. Then the solid gold shell was etched into hollow AuNS (HAuNS) and further modified with biotin-PEG-SH (PEG-bio) to obtain HAuNS@PEG-bio. HAuNS@PEG-bio demonstrates effective near infrared II (NIR-II) region photothermal therapy (PTT) performance, and the increase of temperature at the tumor site promotes the blood circulation to alleviate the hypoxia in the tumor microenvironment (TME). Meanwhile, HAuNS exhibits strong X-ray absorption and deposition ability due to the high atomic coefficient of elemental Au (Z = 79) and hollowed-out structure. Through the dual radiosensitization of the high atomic coefficient of Au and the hypoxia alleviation from PTT of HAuNS, the breast cancer cells could undergo immunogenic cell death (ICD) to activate the immune response. At the in vivo level, HAuNS@PEG-bio performs NIR-II photothermal, radiosensitization, and ICD therapies through cellular targeting, guided by infrared heat and CT imaging. This work highlights that the constructed biotin-decorated hollow gold nanoshell has a promising potential as a diagnostic and treatment integration reagents for the breast cancer.

Graphical abstract: Biotin-decorated hollow gold nanoshells for dual-modal imaging-guided NIR-II photothermal and radiosensitizing therapy toward breast cancer

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
01 août 2023
Accepted
29 sept. 2023
First published
29 sept. 2023

J. Mater. Chem. B, 2023,11, 10003-10018

Biotin-decorated hollow gold nanoshells for dual-modal imaging-guided NIR-II photothermal and radiosensitizing therapy toward breast cancer

Y. Chen, W. Meng, M. Chen, L. Zhang, M. Chen, X. Chen, J. Peng, N. Huang, W. Zhang and J. Chen, J. Mater. Chem. B, 2023, 11, 10003 DOI: 10.1039/D3TB01736B

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