Copper-Single-Atom Coordinated Nanotherapeutics for Enhanced Sonothermal-Parallel Catalytic Synergistic Cancer Therapy.
Ye QiShuangsong RenJunwei YeShengnan BiLei ShiYueguang FangGuangyao WangY Zou FinfrockJun LiYing CheGuiling NingPublished in: Advanced healthcare materials (2023)
Phototherapy and sonotherapy are recognized by scientific medicine as effective strategies for treating certain cancers. However, these strategies have limitations such as an inability to penetrate deeper tissues and overcome the antioxidant tumor microenvironment. In this study, a novel "BH" interfacial-confined coordination strategy to synthesize hyaluronic acid-functionalized single copper atoms dispersed over boron imidazolate framework-derived nanocubes (HA-NC_Cu) to achieve sonothermal-catalytic synergistic therapy is reported. Notably, HA-NC_Cu demonstrates exceptional sonothermal conversion performance under low-intensity ultrasound irradiation, attained through intermolecular lattice vibrations. In addition, it shows promise as an efficient biocatalyst, able to generate high-toxicity hydroxyl radicals in response to tumor-endogenous hydrogen peroxide and glutathione. Density functional theory calculations reveal that the superior parallel catalytic performance of HA-NC_Cu originates from the CuN 4 C/B active sites. Both in vitro and in vivo evaluations consistently demonstrate that the sonothermal-catalytic synergistic strategy significantly improves tumor inhibition rate (86.9%) and long-term survival rate (100%). In combination with low-intensity ultrasound irradiation, HA-NC_Cu triggers a dual death pathway of apoptosis and ferroptosis in MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cells, comprehensively limiting primary triple-negative breast cancer. This study highlights the applications of single-atom-coordinated nanotherapeutics in sonothermal-catalytic synergistic therapy, which may create new opportunities in biomedical research.
Keyphrases
- cancer therapy
- density functional theory
- hydrogen peroxide
- molecular dynamics
- breast cancer cells
- hyaluronic acid
- oxidative stress
- drug delivery
- aqueous solution
- magnetic resonance imaging
- nitric oxide
- cell death
- metal organic framework
- gene expression
- crystal structure
- molecular dynamics simulations
- dna methylation
- cell cycle arrest
- stem cells
- radiation induced
- high resolution
- machine learning
- endoplasmic reticulum stress
- mass spectrometry
- cell proliferation
- anti inflammatory
- quantum dots
- single cell
- big data