Tailoring the Amphiphilic Structure of Zwitterionic AIE Photosensitizers to Boost Antitumor Immunity

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Veröffentlicht in:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.). - 1998. - 35(2023), 38 vom: 14. Sept., Seite e2303186
1. Verfasser: Zhang, Tianfu (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Yang, Xing, Ou, Xinwen, Lee, Michelle M S, Zhang, Jianyu, Xu, Changhuo, Yu, Xinghua, Gong, Ping, Lam, Jacky W Y, Zhang, Pengfei, Tang, Ben Zhong
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2023
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Schlagworte:Journal Article adjuvant aggregation-induced emission antitumor immunity organelle-targeting photodynamic therapy Photosensitizing Agents Reactive Oxygen Species
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Zusammenfassung:© 2023 Wiley-VCH GmbH.
Although photodynamic therapy (PDT) for thorough cancer treatment is hindered by the limited generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) with short lifetime from photosensitizers, PDT-induced antitumor immune response remedies the defects. Previous studies show that inducing immunogenic cell deaths is an attractive approach to activate antitumor immunity, which confers a robust adjuvanticity to dying cancer cells. In this work, amphiphilic luminogens with aggregation-induced emission characteristics (AIEgens) are rationally designed and synthesized. By modulating the hydrophobic π-bridge and zwitterionic functional groups, these AIEgens exhibit tunable organelle specificity to lysosome, endoplasmic reticulum, and plasma membrane and enhance ROS generation ability. Notably, the membrane-targeting AIEgen namely TPS-2 induces cell death and membrane rupture via PDT to facilitate the release of antigens and activation of immune cells. Furthermore, the size-controlled TPS-2 nanoaggregates are found to serve as an adjuvant, promoting antigen accumulation and delivery to sufficiently boost the in vivo antitumor immunity by only one dose injection in a prophylactic tumor vaccination model. This work thus provides new insights into optimizing AIE photosensitizers via a hydrophobicity-hydrophilicity balance strategy for evoking an antitumor immunity and directly suppressing the distanced tumor. A single small-molecular system for PDT-stimulated antitumor immunity is envisioned
Beschreibung:Date Completed 22.09.2023
Date Revised 22.09.2023
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1521-4095
DOI:10.1002/adma.202303186