Multifunctional graphene oxide-based triple stimuli-responsive nanotheranostics

  • Yu Chen
  • , Pengfei Xu
  • , Zhu Shu
  • , Meiying Wu
  • , Lianzhou Wang
  • , Shengjian Zhang
  • , Yuanyi Zheng
  • , Hangrong Chen*
  • , Jin Wang
  • , Yaping Li
  • , Jianlin Shi
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Construction of multifunctional stimuli-responsive nanosystems intelligently responsive to inner physiological and/or external irradiations based on nanobiotechnology can enable the on-demand drug release and improved diagnostic imaging to mitigate the side-effects of anticancer drugs and enhance the diagnostic/therapeutic outcome simultaneously. Here, a triple-functional stimuli-responsive nanosystem based on the co-integration of superparamagnetic Fe3O4 and paramagnetic MnOx nanoparticles (NPs) onto exfoliated graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets by a novel and efficient double redox strategy (DRS) is reported. Aromatic anticancer drug molecules can interact with GO nanosheets through supramolecular π stacking to achieve high drug loading capacity and pH-responsive drug releasing performance. The integrated MnOx NPs can disintegrate in mild acidic and reduction environment to realize the highly efficient pH-responsive and reduction-triggered T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Superparamagnetic Fe3O4 NPs can not only function as the T2-weighted contrast agents for MRI, but also response to the external magnetic field for magnetic hyperthermia against cancer. Importantly, the constructed biocompatible GO-based nanoplatform can inhibit the metastasis of cancer cells by downregulating the expression of metastasis-related proteins, and anticancer drug-loaded carrier can significantly reverse the multidrug resistance (MDR) of cancer cells. A triple-functional biocompatible stimuli-responsive nanosystem based on the functionalized nanographene oxides is developed by a novel and efficient double redox strategy. This elaborately designed nanographene oxide-based nanoplatform exhibits the unique triple stimuli-responsivenesses for biomedical engineering, including pH-responsive drug release to inhibit the metastasis and reverse the multidrug resistance of cancer cells, pH-/redox-responsive magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic field-responsive hyperthermia of cancer.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4386-4396
Number of pages11
JournalAdvanced Functional Materials
Volume24
Issue number28
DOIs
StatePublished - 23 Jul 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • MRI
  • cancer therapy
  • graphene oxide
  • hyperthermia
  • stimuli-responsiveness

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