Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Cascade enzymes within self-assembled hybrid nanogel mimicked neutrophil lysosomes for singlet oxygen elevated cancer therapy

  • Qing Wu,
  • Zhigang He,
  • Xia Wang,
  • Qi Zhang,
  • Qingcong Wei,
  • Sunqiang Ma,
  • Cheng Ma,
  • Jiyu Li,
  • Qigang Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08234-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Enzymatic reactions caused by neutrophils can cause the elevation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in tumour tissue, Here, the authors, inspired by the neutrophils, design and test a synthetic cascade reaction which turns ROS into singlet oxygen and demonstrate the application of the designed nanoparticle