Nanozyme with Robust Catalase Activity by Multiple Mechanisms and Its Application for Hypoxic Tumor Treatment.

Adv Healthc Mater

College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biofunctional Materials, Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials, Key Laboratory of Applied Photochemistry, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210023, China.

Published: October 2021

Utilizing catalase-mimicking nanozymes to produce O is an effective method to overcome tumor hypoxia. However, it is challenging to fabricate nanozymes with ultrahigh catalytic activity. Palladium nanosheet (Pd NS), a photothermal agent for photothermal therapy (PTT), has superior catalase-mimicking activity. Here, titanium dioxide (TiO ) is used to modify Pd NS (denoted Pd@TiO ) by a simple one-step method to improve its catalytic activity about 8 times. The enhancement mechanism's fundamental insights are discussed through experiments and density functional theory calculations. Next, zinc phthalocyanine is loaded on Pd@TiO to form a nanomotor (denoted PTZCs) with the synergistic activities of photodynamic therapy and PTT. PTZCs inherit the catalase activity of Pd@TiO to facilitate the decomposition of endogenous H O to O , which can relieve tumor hypoxia and propel PTZC migration to expand the reach of PTZCs, further enhancing its synergistic treatment outcome both in vitro and in vivo. It is proposed that this work can provide a simple and effective strategy for catalytic activity enhancement and bring a critical new perspective to studying and guiding the nanozyme design.

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