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Recently reported black phosphorus quantum dots (BPQDs) possess unique photocatalysis activities. However, the environmental instability accompanied by a hypoxic tumor microenvironment (TME) seriously hindered the bioapplications of BPQDs, especially in oxygen-dependent photodynamic therapy (PDT). Here, we construct a hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)-specific targeting aptamer "TLS11a"-decorated BPQDs-hybridized nanocatalyst, which can specifically target HCC tumor cells and self-compensate oxygen (O 2 ) into hypoxic TME for enhancing PDT efficiency. The BPQD-hybridized mesoporous silica framework (BMSF) with in situ synthesized Pt nanoparticles (PtNPs) in the BMSF is simply prepared. After being decorated by TLS11a aptamer/Mal-PEG-NHS, the resultant nanosystem (refer as Apt-BMSF@Pt) exhibits excellent environmental stability, active targeting ability to HCC cells, and self-compensation ability of oxygen. Compared with the PEG-BMSF@Pt without H 2 O 2 incubation, the PEG-BMSF@Pt nanocatalyst exhibits 4.2-folds O 2 and 1.6-folds 1 O 2 generation ability in a mimetic closed-system in the presence of both H 2 O 2 and near-infrared laser. In a mouse model, the Apt-BMSF@Pt can effectively accumulate into tumor sites, and the core of BMSF subsequently can act as a photosensitizer to generate reactive oxygen species, while the PtNPs can serve as a catalyst to convert H 2 O 2 into O 2 for enhancing PDT through self-compensation mechanisms in hypoxic TME. By comparison of the tumor volume/weight, H&E, and immunohistochemical analysis, the excellent antitumor effects with minimized side effects of our Apt-BMSF@Pt could be demonstrated in vivo. Taken together, the current study suggests that our Apt-BMSF@Pt could act as an active targeting nanocatalyst for programmable killing of cancer cells in hypoxic TME. © 2019 American Chemical Society.
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ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
ISSN: 1944-8244
Year: 2019
Issue: 10
Volume: 11
Page: 9804-9813
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ESI HC Threshold:236
JCR Journal Grade:1
CAS Journal Grade:2
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SCOPUS Cited Count: 65
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