Engineering naphthalimide-cyanine integrated near-infrared dye into ROS-responsive nanohybrids for tumor PDT/PTT/chemotherapy.

Jin, Tongxia; Cheng, Di; Jiang, Guanyu; Xing, Wenqian; Liu, Peiwen; Wang, Bin; Zhu, Weiping; Sun, Haitao et al. · Bioact Mater · 2022

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Photodynamic (PDT) and photothermal therapies (PTT) are emerging treatments for tumour ablation. Organic dyes such as porphyrin, chlorin, phthalocyanine, boron-dipyrromethene and cyanine are the clinically or preclinically used photosensitizer or photothermal agents. Development of structurally diverse near-infrared dyes with long absorption wavelength is of great significance for PDT and PTT. Herein, we report a novel near-infrared dye <b>ML880</b> with naphthalimide modified cyanine skeleton. The introduction of naphthalimide moiety results in stronger electron delocalization and larger redshift in emission compared with <b>IR820</b>. Furthermore, <b>ML880</b> is co-loaded with chemotherapeutic drug into ROS-responsive mesoporous organosilica (<b>RMON</b>) to construct nanomedicine <b>NBD&ML@RMON</b>, which exhibits remarkable tumor inhibition effects through PDT/PTT/chemotherapy in vivo.