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A strategy for imaging-guided cocktail cancer therapy using dual-colored polymeric drug carriers with amplified aggregation-induced emission behavior by donor–acceptor/Förster resonance energy transfer adjustment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 November 2020

Mengxia Hua ,
Yi Zhou ,
Ziyu Wang ,
Cheng Wang ,
Lu Wang ,
Hong Yuan  and
Daoben Hua Open the ORCID record for Daoben Hua [Opens in a new window]
Mengxia Hua
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Nanyang Normal University, Nanyang473061, PR China
Yi Zhou
Affiliation:
Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiological Medicine of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, Suzhou215123, PR China State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection, School for Radiological and interdisciplinary Sciences (RAD-X), Soochow University, Suzhou215123, PR China
Ziyu Wang
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection, School for Radiological and interdisciplinary Sciences (RAD-X), Soochow University, Suzhou215123, PR China
Cheng Wang
Affiliation:
College of Pharmaceutical Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou310058, PR China
Lu Wang
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection, School for Radiological and interdisciplinary Sciences (RAD-X), Soochow University, Suzhou215123, PR China
Hong Yuan*
Affiliation:
College of Pharmaceutical Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou310058, PR China
Daoben Hua*
Affiliation:
Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiological Medicine of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, Suzhou215123, PR China State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection, School for Radiological and interdisciplinary Sciences (RAD-X), Soochow University, Suzhou215123, PR China
*
a)Address all correspondence to these authors. e-mail: yuanhong70@zju.edu.cn
b)e-mail: dbhua_lab@suda.edu.cn
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Abstract

Nowadays, theranostics drug delivery systems (DDSs) with imaging and therapy bi-functions have been regarded as a future orientation for imaging-guided cancer therapy. To achieve high imaging quality, a donor–acceptor (D–A)/Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) bi-adjustment strategy is carried out for designing dual-colored DDSs with amplified aggregation-induced emission (AIE) behavior for imaging-guided cocktail cancer therapy in this study. In detail, four AIE-active conjugated polymers P-1 to P-4 are synthesized via the Suzuki reaction. Noteworthily, the D–A-type structure is applied in tuning the fluorescence color from orange (P-1) to far-red/near-infrared (P-2), while the intramolecular FRET process further enhanced the fluorescence signal for six times (P-3). Afterwards, P-3-based amphipathic polymer P-4 further acts as a drug carrier in preparing doxorubicin (Dox)- and curcumin (Cur)-loaded polymer dots (Pdots) (Dox-loaded Pdots as PDox and Cur-loaded Pdots as PCur). PDox + PCur DDS is successfully applied in imaging-guided cocktail cancer therapy to give obviously higher in vivo anticancer efficacy compared with single PDox or PCur. In addition, the drug-loaded Pdots also exhibit higher biocompatibility compared with free drugs. This work provides a novel D–A/FRET bi-adjustment strategy for developing high efficiency imaging-guided cocktail DDSs in cancer therapy.

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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 35 , Issue 23-24 , 14 December 2020 , pp. 3286 - 3295
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2020, published on behalf of Materials Research Society by Cambridge University Press

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These authors contributed equally to this work.

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