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Supramolecular chemistry provides a "bottom-up" method to fabricate nanostructures for biomedical applications. Herein, we report a facile strategy to directly assemble a phthalocyanine photo-sensitizer (PcS) with an anticancer drug mitoxantrone (MA) to form uniform nanostructures (PcS MA), which not only display nanoscale optical properties but also have the capability of undergoing nucleic acid-responsive disassembly. These supramolecular assemblies possess activatable fluorescence emission and singlet oxygen generation associated with the formation of free PcS, mild photothermal heating, and a concomitant chemotherapeutic effect associated with the formation of free MA. In vivo evaluations indicate that PcS-MA nanostructures have a high level of accumulation in tumor tissues, are capable of being used for cancer imaging, and have significantly improved anticancer effect compared to that of PcS. This study demonstrates an attractive strategy for overcoming the limitations of photodynamic cancer therapy.
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ACS NANO
ISSN: 1936-0851
Year: 2018
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Page: 681-688
1 3 . 9 0 3
JCR@2018
1 5 . 8 0 0
JCR@2023
ESI Discipline: MATERIALS SCIENCE;
ESI HC Threshold:284
JCR Journal Grade:1
CAS Journal Grade:1
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WoS CC Cited Count: 157
SCOPUS Cited Count: 154
ESI Highly Cited Papers on the List: 2 Unfold All
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30 Days PV: 0
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