Biodegradable copper-metformin nanoscale coordination polymers for enhanced chemo/chemodynamic synergistic therapy by reducing oxygen consumption to promote H2O2 accumulation
Biodegradable copper-metformin nanoscale coordination polymers for enhanced chemo/chemodynamic synergistic therapy by reducing oxygen consumption to promote H2O2 accumulation
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可生物降解的铜-二甲双胍纳米级配位聚合物,通过减少耗氧量促进 H2O2 积累,增强化学/化学动力学协同治疗
DOI:
10.1039/d0tb02476g
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发表时间:
2021-02-28
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7
通讯作者:
Wang, Zhifei
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作者:
Meng, Xiangyu;Zhang, Xuezhong;Wang, Zhifei
Chemo/chemodynamic synergistic therapy is a promising strategy to improve the antitumor effect. However, hypoxia and a limited amount of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in the tumor microenvironment (TME) severely restrict the therapeutic efficacy of this combined treatment. Herein, we report biodegradable doxorubicin (Dox)-loaded copper-metformin (Met) nanoscale coordination polymers (Dox@Cu-Met NPs), which exert a chemo/chemodynamic synergistic therapeutic effect by reducing oxygen (O-2) consumption to promote H2O2 accumulation in the tumor. Inside tumor cells, Met can inhibit the consumption of O-2 to relieve tumor hypoxia by suppressing mitochondrial respiration. The alleviated-tumor hypoxia can not only elevate H2O2 content via the Dox-activated cascade reaction of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidases (NOXs) and superoxide dismutase (SOD), but also improve the efficacy of Dox. More importantly, the depletion of glutathione (GSH) accompanies the whole treatment process, which can realize the conversion of Cu2+ to Cu+ and boost reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation to improve chemodynamic therapy (CDT) efficacy. Meanwhile, Met is expected to cut off the energy supply by inhibiting respiration, leading to starvation therapy. In vivo investigations demonstrate that tumor growth is significantly inhibited through the enhanced chemo/chemodynamic synergistic treatment. This work provides a new paradigm for cancer therapy using an economical and straightforward method to construct a synergistic nanomedicine platform.