UNI-MB - logo
UMNIK - logo
 
E-viri
Celotno besedilo
Recenzirano
  • Calcium Phosphate Mineraliz...
    Pan, Ting; Fu, Wen; Xin, Hongbao; Geng, Shengyong; Li, Zhibin; Cui, Haodong; Zhang, Yanli; Chu, Paul K.; Zhou, Wenhua; Yu, Xue‐Feng

    Advanced functional materials, 09/2020, Letnik: 30, Številka: 38
    Journal Article

    Biodegradable inorganic nanomaterials have opened new perspectives for cancer therapy due to their inherent anticancer activity. Black phosphorus nanosheets (BPs) with their unique bioactivity have recently been identified as promising cancer therapeutic agents but their application is hampered by the difficulty in surface functionalization. Herein, an in situ calcium phosphate (CaP) mineralization strategy is described to enhance the anticancer activity of BPs. By using BPs as the phosphate sources and growth templates, the synthesized CaP‐mineralized BPs (CaBPs) retain the intrinsic properties of BPs and at the same time have high loading capacities for various fluorophores to enable effective bioimaging and tracing. Compared to BPs, CaBPs exhibit enhanced and selective anticancer bioactivity due to the improved pH‐responsive degradation behavior and intracellular Ca2+ overloading in cancer cells. Furthermore, CaBPs specifically target mitochondria and cause structural damage, thus leading to mitochondria‐mediated apoptosis in cancer cells. After intravenous injection, CaBPs target orthotopic breast cancer cells to inhibit tumor growth without giving rise to adverse effects or toxicity. The results demonstrate the great potential of CaBPs as targeted anticancer agents and the CaP mineralization approach provides a versatile surface functionalization strategy for nanotherapeutic agents. Calcium phosphate‐mineralized black phosphorus nanosheets (CaBPs) are synthesized by using BPs as the phosphate sources and growth templates. CaBPs display enhanced selective anticancer activity as compared to BPs by inducing mitochondria‐mediated apoptotic cell death, and at the same time have high loading capacities for various fluorophores and drugs, thus displaying great potential as anticancer agents as well as versatile nanotherapeutic platforms.