In Situ Biosynthesis of Fluorescent Platinum Nanoclusters: Toward Self-Bioimaging-Guided Cancer Theranostics

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• 作者：Donghua Chen ; Chunqiu Zhao ; Jing Ye ; Qiwei Li ; Xiaoli Liu ; Meina Su ; Hui Jiang ; Christian Amatore ; Matthias Selke ; Xuemei Wang
• 刊名：ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：August 19, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：7
• 期：32
• 页码：18163-18169
• 全文大小：455K
• ISSN：1944-8252

文摘

Among the noble-metal clusters, very few reports about platinum clusters were used as bioimaging probes of tumors except as a reducing catalyst. It is first established herein that the biocompatible platinum nanoclusters are spontaneously biosynthesized by cancerous cells (i.e., HepG2 (human hepatocarcinoma), A549 (lung cancer), and others) rather than noncancerous cells (i.e., L02 (human embryo liver cells)) when incubated with micromolar chloroplatinic acid solutions. These in situ biosynthesized platinum nanoclusters could be readily realized in a biological environment and emit a bright fluorescence at 460 nm, which could be further utilized to facilitate an excellent cancer-cell-killing efficiency when combined with porphyrin derivatives for photothermal treatment. This raises the possibility of providing a promising and precise bioimaging strategy for specific fluorescent self-biomarking of tumor locations and realizing fluorescence imaging-guided photothermal therapy of tumors.