Spatial and Temporal Confined Photothermolysis of Cancer Cells Mediated by Hollow Gold Nanospheres Targeted to Epidermal Growth Factor Receptors.
Spatial and Temporal Confined Photothermolysis of Cancer Cells Mediated by Hollow Gold Nanospheres Targeted to Epidermal Growth Factor Receptors.
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针对表皮生长因子受体的空心金纳米球介导的癌细胞的空间和时间限制光热作用。
DOI:
10.1021/acsomega.8b00712
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发表时间:
2018
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影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
Li,Chun
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作者:
Ku,Geng;Huang,Qian;Wen,Xiaoxia;Ye,John;Piwnica-Worms,David;Li,Chun
To date, a few studies have investigated the potential use of a short-pulsed laser in selective tumor cell destruction or its mechanism of cell killing. Computer simulation of the spatial and temporal profiles of temperature elevation after pulsed laser irradiation on an infinitesimal point source estimated that the temperature reached its highest point at ∼35 ns after a single 15 ns laser pulse. Moreover, temperature elevation was confined to a radius of sub-micrometer and returned to baseline within 100 ns. To investigate the effect of 15 ns laser pulses on A431 tumor cells, we conjugated hollow gold nanospheres (HAuNSs) to an antibody (C225) directed at the epithelial growth factor receptor. The resulting nanoparticles, C225-HAuNSs, bound to the cell membrane, internalized, and distributed throughout the cytoplasm, with some nanoparticles transported to the vicinity of the nuclear membrane. On using an optical microscope mounted to a tunable pulsed Ti:sapphire laser, rapid and extensive damage of live cancer cells was observed, whereas irradiation of A431 cells pretreated with nontargeted HAuNSs with a pulsed laser or pretreated with C225-HAuNSs with a continuous-wave laser-induced minimal cellular damage. Furthermore, after a single 15 ns laser pulse, C225-HAuNS-treated A431 cells cocultured with 3T3 fibroblasts showed signs of selective destruction. Thus, compared with a continuous-wave laser, shots of a short-pulsed laser were the most damaging to tumor cells that bound HAuNSs and generated the least heat to the surrounding environment. This mode of action by a short-pulsed laser on cancer cells (i.e., confined photothermolysis) may have potential applications in selective tumor cell destruction.