Targeted Intracellular Controlled Drug Delivery and Tumor Therapy through in Situ Forming Ag Nanogates on Mesoporous Silica Nanocontainers

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• 作者：Changhui Liu ; Jing Zheng ; Li Deng ; Cheng Ma ; Jishan Li ; Yinhui Li ; Sheng Yang ; Jinfeng Yang ; Jing Wang ; Ronghua Yang
• 刊名：ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：June 10, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：7
• 期：22
• 页码：11930-11938
• 全文大小：470K
• ISSN：1944-8252

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Targeting nanocontainers to the pathological zone and controlling release of their cargoes, in particular delivery of anticancer drugs to specific tumor cells in a targeted and controlled manner, remain the key challenges in drug delivery. This paper reports the development of a traceable and tumor-targeted intracellular drug release nanocontainer. The nanocontainer is obtained by in situ growth of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) on the surfaces of mesoporous silica nanospheres (MSNs) using a DNA-templated process. Additionally, drug release from the nanopores is achieved by selective glutathione (GSH)-triggered dismantle of the AgNPs, and the concurrent fluorescence change allows real-time monitoring of drug release efficacy and facile visualization of in vivo delivery events. After being functionalized with sgc8 aptamer on the outer shell of the AgNPs, the targeted nanocontainers are delivered into acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells by aptamer-mediated recognition and endocytosis. Moreover, the GSH-responsive process presents an improvement in the cell-specific drug release and chemotherapeutic inhibition of tumor growth.