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Tumor microenvironment-responsive engineered hybrid nanomedicine for photodynamic-immunotherapy via multi-pronged amplification of reactive oxygen species

  • Nat Commun. 2025 Jan 6;16(1):424. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-55658-0.
Jinglin Zou # 1 Cong Jiang # 2 Qiangsheng Hu # 2 Xinlin Jia 3 Shuqi Wang 1 Shiyue Wan 2 Yuanqing Mao 3 Dapeng Zhang 1 Peng Zhang 4 Bin Dai 5 Yongsheng Li 6 7
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Lab of Low-Dimensional Materials Chemistry, Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, Frontier Science Center of the Materials Biology and Dynamic Chemistry, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hierarchical Nanomaterials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China.
  • 2 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
  • 3 Shanghai Key Laboratory of Orthopaedic Implants, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
  • 4 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China. zhangpeng1121@tongji.edu.cn.
  • 5 Key Laboratory for Green Processing of Chemical Engineering of Xinjiang Bingtuan, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shihezi University, Shihezi, China.
  • 6 Lab of Low-Dimensional Materials Chemistry, Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, Frontier Science Center of the Materials Biology and Dynamic Chemistry, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hierarchical Nanomaterials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China. ysli@ecust.edu.cn.
  • 7 Key Laboratory for Green Processing of Chemical Engineering of Xinjiang Bingtuan, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shihezi University, Shihezi, China. ysli@ecust.edu.cn.
  • # Contributed equally.
Abstract

Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) is promising in Cancer therapy by accelerating tumor cell death, whose therapeutic efficacy, however, is greatly limited by the hypoxia in the tumor microenvironment (TME) and the antioxidant defense. Amplification of oxidative stress has been successfully employed for tumor therapy, but the interactions between Cancer cells and the Other factors of TME usually lead to inadequate tumor treatments. To tackle this issue, we develop a pH/redox dual-responsive nanomedicine based on the remodeling of cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) for multi-pronged amplification of ROS (ZnPP@FQOS). It is demonstrated that ROS generated by ZnPP@FQOS is endogenously/exogenously multiply amplified owing to the CAFs remodeling and down-regulation of anti-oxidative stress in Cancer cells, ultimately achieving the efficient photodynamic therapy in a female tumor-bearing mouse model. More importantly, ZnPP@FQOS is verified to enable the stimulation of enhanced immune responses and systemic immunity. This strategy remarkably potentiates the efficacy of photodynamic-immunotherapy, thus providing a promising enlightenment for tumor therapy.

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