纳米载体
材料科学
纳米技术
药物输送
小分子
生物相容性
生物物理学
体内
纳米医学
纳米颗粒
化学
生物化学
生物技术
冶金
生物
作者
Xiaomin Ma,Xiangyu Chen,Yi Zeng,Zhiwen Deng,Wen Su,Guangcan Chen,Lei Ma,Yaqin Ran,Qiulan Tong,Xudong Li
标识
DOI:10.1021/acsami.2c04698
摘要
The size of nanocarriers strongly affects their performance in biological systems, especially the capacity to overcome various barriers before delivering the payloads to destinations. However, the optimum size varies at different delivery stages in cancer therapy due to the complicated tumor microenvironment. Relatively large particles are favored for long-term circulation in vivo, while smaller particles contribute to deep penetration into tumor tissues. This dilemma in the size of particles stimulates the development of stimuli-responsive size-shrinking nanocarriers. Herein, we report a facile strategy to construct a tumor-triggered tannic acid (TA) nanoassembly with improved drug delivery efficiency. Cystamine (CA), a small molecule with a disulfide bond, is thus used to mediate TA assembling via cooperative noncovalent interactions, which endows the nanoassembly with intrinsic pH/GSH dual-responsiveness. The obtained TA nanoassemblies were systematically investigated. DOX encapsulated nanoassembly labeled TCFD NP shows high drug loading efficiency, pH/GSH-responsiveness and significant size shrinkage from 122 to 10 nm with simultaneous drug release. The in vitro and in vivo experimental results demonstrate the excellent biocompatibility, sufficient intracellular delivery, enhanced tumor retention/penetration, and superior anticancer efficacy of the small-molecule-mediated nanoassembly. This noncovalent strategy provides a simple method to fabricate a tumor-triggered size-changeable delivery platform to overcome biological barriers.
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