Issue 3, 2023

All-in-one CoFe2O4@Tf nanoagent with GSH depletion and tumor-targeted ability for mutually enhanced chemodynamic/photothermal synergistic therapy

Abstract

In the complex and severe tumor microenvironment, the antitumor efficiency of nanomedicines is significantly limited by their low-efficacy monotherapy, non-tumor targeting, and systemic toxicity. Herein, to achieve tumor-targeted and enhanced chemodynamic/photothermal therapy (CDT/PTT), we fabricated an “all-in-one” biocompatible transferrin-loaded cobalt ferrate nanoparticle (CoFe2O4@Tf (CFOT)) with multiple functions by a simple solvothermal method and the following transferrin (Tf) functionalization. Upon exposure to 808 nm laser irradiation, CFOT, as a novel photothermal agent, exhibited outstanding phototherapeutic activity because of its excellent photothermal conversion efficiency (η = 46.5%) for high-performance PTT. Moreover, CFOT with multiple redox pairs could efficiently convert endogenous H2O2 to hazardous hydroxyl radicals (˙OH) via Fenton reactions while scavenging overexpressed GSH in the tumor microenvironment to realize self-reinforcing CDT. Importantly, CFOT undergoes a promoted Fenton-type reaction upon increasing the temperature under a photothermal effect and could augment PTT by high-level ˙OH, exhibiting a considerably enhanced synergistic therapeutic effect. In vitro and in vivo experimental results demonstrated that CFOT has good potential as an “all-in-one” nanoagent to combine photothermal, chemodynamic, and tumor targeting for efficient tumor elimination.

Graphical abstract: All-in-one CoFe2O4@Tf nanoagent with GSH depletion and tumor-targeted ability for mutually enhanced chemodynamic/photothermal synergistic therapy

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
25 Sept. 2022
Accepted
18 Nov. 2022
First published
22 Nov. 2022

Biomater. Sci., 2023,11, 828-839

All-in-one CoFe2O4@Tf nanoagent with GSH depletion and tumor-targeted ability for mutually enhanced chemodynamic/photothermal synergistic therapy

N. Chen, Y. Wang, Y. Zeng, Y. Li, Z. Pan, H. Li, J. Chen, Z. Chen, J. Yuan, W. Yan, Y. Lu, X. Liu, Y. He and K. Zhang, Biomater. Sci., 2023, 11, 828 DOI: 10.1039/D2BM01542K

To request permission to reproduce material from this article, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.

If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.

Social activity

Spotlight

Advertisements