Both photothermal therapy (PTT) and photodynamic therapy (PDT) are phototherapeutic approaches, which have been widely investigated for cancer therapy mediated by an external light source. Here, a nanosystem presenting the synchronous PTT and PDT effect realized through one-step near-infrared (NIR) light irradiation is reported. This system was fabricated by conjugating indocyanine green (ICG) on hollow gold nanospheres (HAuNS) using branched-polyethylenimine (PEI, MW = 10 kDa) as optimal linker, which provided a high ICG payload as well as a covering layer with suitable thickness on HAuNS to maintain ICG fluorescence and reactive oxygen species (ROS) productivity. The resulting system (ICG-PEI-HAuNS) had the molar ratio of ICG:PEI:Au = 3:0.33:5. Compared with free ICG, ICG-PEI-HAuNS exhibited dramatically enhanced stability of ICG molecules and greater intratumoral accumulation. The conjugation of ICG caused significantly higher plasmon absorption of ICG-PEI-HAuNS in the NIR region compared with HAuNS alone, inducing remarkably enhanced photothermal conversion efficiency and synchronous photodynamic effect under NIR light irradiation. Interestingly, compared with PTT or PDT alone, synchronous PTT and PDT produced by ICG-PEI-HAuNS upon NIR light irradiation induced significantly stronger antitumor and metastasis inhibition effects both in vitro and in vivo, which might be a promising strategy for cancer treatment.
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