Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

A nuclease-mimetic platinum nanozyme induces concurrent DNA platination and oxidative cleavage to overcome cancer drug resistance

  • Fangyuan Li,
  • Heng Sun,
  • Jiafeng Ren,
  • Bo Zhang,
  • Xi Hu,
  • Chunyan Fang,
  • Jiyoung Lee,
  • Hongzhou Gu,
  • Daishun Ling

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35022-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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One of the mechanisms underlying platinum (Pt) resistance is the spontaneous nucleotide-excision repair of cancer cells. Here, nuclease-mimetic Pt nanozymes are targeted to the cancer cell nucleus and induce concurrent DNA platination and oxidative cleavage to overcome Pt resistance.