Tailoring the Amphiphilic Structure of Zwitterionic AIE Photosensitizers to Boost Antitumor Immunity
© 2023 Wiley-VCH GmbH.
Veröffentlicht in: | Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.). - 1998. - 35(2023), 38 vom: 14. Sept., Seite e2303186 |
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Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
Sprache: | English |
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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 |
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 |
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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 |