- Title
- Intracellular tracking of drug release from pH-sensitive polymeric nanoparticles via FRET for synergistic chemo-photodynamic therapy
- Creator
- Du, Chen; Liang, Yan; Ma, Qingming; Sun, Qianwen; Qi, Jinghui; Cao, Jie; Han, Shangcong; Liang, Mingtao; Song, Bo; Sun, Yong
- Relation
- Journal of Nanobiotechnology Vol. 17, no. 113
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12951-019-0547-2
- Publisher
- BioMed Central (BMC)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Background: Synergistic therapy of tumor is a promising way in curing cancer and in order to achieve effective tumor therapy with real-time drug release monitoring, dynamic cellular imaging and antitumor activity. Results: In this work, a polymeric nanoparticle with Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET) effect and chemo-photodynamic properties was fabricated as the drug vehicle. An amphiphilic polymer of cyclo(RGDfCSH) (cRGD)-poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG)-Poly(L-histidine) (PH)-poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL)-Protoporphyrin (Por)-acting as both a photosensitizer for photodynamic therapy (PDT) and absorption of acceptor in FRET was synthesized and self-assembled into polymeric nanoparticles with epirubicin (EPI)-acting as an antitumor drug for chemotherapy and fluorescence of donor in FRET. Spherical EPI-loaded nanoparticles with the average size of 150 ± 2.4 nm was procured with negatively charged surface, pH sensitivity and high drug loading content (14.9 ± 1.5%). The cellular uptake of EPI-loaded cRGD-PEG-PH-PCL-Por was monitored in real time by the FRET effect between EPI and cRGD-PEG-PH-PCL-Por. The polymeric nanoparticles combined PDT and chemotherapy showed significant anticancer activity both in vitro (IC50 = 0.47 μg/mL) and better therapeutic efficacy than that of free EPI in vivo. Conclusions: This work provided a versatile strategy to fabricate nanoassemblies for intracellular tracking of drug release and synergistic chemo-photodynamic therapy.
- Subject
- polymeric nanoparticles; pH-sensitive; PDT; synergistic therapy; FRET tracking; drug delivery; SDG 3; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1442945
- Identifier
- uon:41839
- Identifier
- ISSN:1477-3155
- Rights
- © The Author(s) 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/ publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
- Language
- eng
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