Smart Self‐Assembly Amphiphilic Cyclopeptide‐Dye for Near‐Infrared Window‐II Imaging

Autor: Hongyue Lou, Mark Zhu, Yuebing Wang, Si Chen, Kun Qian, Zhen Cheng, Ling Tong, Zhenhua Hu, Jie Tian, Bingbing Ding, Kangquan Shou, Dean W. Felsher, Aiyan Ji, Alexander Hsu, Zhiming Wang, Lei Jiang, Hao Chen, Chunrong Qu
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Advanced Materials. 33:2006902
ISSN: 1521-4095
0935-9648
1000-1700
Popis: Development of novel nanomaterials for disease theranostics represents an important direction in chemistry and precision medicine. Fluorescent molecular probes in the second near-infrared window (NIR-II, 1000-1700 nm) show high promise because of their exceptional high detection sensitivity, resolution, and deep imaging depth. Here, a sharp pH-sensitive self-assembling cyclopeptide-dye, SIMM1000, as a smart nanoprobe for NIR-II imaging of diseases in living animals, is reported. This small molecule assembled nanoprobe exhibits smart properties by responding to a sharp decrease of pH in the tumor microenvironment (pH 7.0 to 6.8), aggregating from small nanoprobe (80 nm at pH 7.0) into large nanoparticles (>500 nm at pH 6.8) with approximate to 20-30 times enhanced fluorescence compared with the non-self-assembled CH-4T. It yields micrometer-scale resolution in blood vessel imaging and high contrast and resolution in bone and tumor imaging in mice. Because of its self-aggregation in acidic tumor microenvironments in situ, SIMM1000 exhibits high tumor accumulation and extremely long tumor retention (>19 days), while being excretable from normal tissues and safe. This smart self-assembling small molecule strategy can shift the paradigm of designing new nanomaterials for molecular imaging and drug development.
Databáze: OpenAIRE