Platinum-crosslinking polymeric nanoparticle for synergetic chemoradiotherapy of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Bioact Mater

Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Malignant Tumor Epigenetics and Gene Regulation, Guangdong-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory for RNA Medicine, Department of Radiology, Medical Research Center, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510120, China.

Published: December 2021

Despite extensive use of radiotherapy in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) treatment because of its high radiosensitivity, there have been huge challenges in further improving therapeutic effect, meanwhile obviously reducing radiation damage. To this end, synergistic chemoradiotherapy has emerged as a potential strategy for highly effective NPC therapy. Here, we developed RGD-targeted platinum-based nanoparticles (RGD-PtNPs, denoted as RPNs) to achieve targeted chemoradiotherapy for NPC. Such nanoparticles consist of an RGD-conjugated shell and a -platinum (CDDP) crosslinking core. Taking advantage of RGD, the RPNs may effectively accumulate in tumor, penetrate into tumor tissues and be taken by cancer cells, giving rise to a high delivery efficiency of CDDP. When they are fully enriched in tumor sites, the CDDP loaded RPNs can act as radiotherapy sensitizer and chemotherapy agents. By means of X-ray-promoted tumor cell uptake of nanoparticle and CDDP-induced cell cycle arrest in radiation-sensitive G2/M phases, RPNs may offer remarkable therapeutic outcome in the synergistic chemoradiotherapy for NPC.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8164009PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bioactmat.2021.05.010DOI Listing

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