Multifunctional DNA nanoprobe for tumor-targeted synergistic therapy by integrating chemodynamic therapy with gene silencing
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Qiaorong Tang, Qianqian Li, Lu Shi, Wei Liu, Baoxin Li, Yan Jin
Due to the high complexity, diversity and heterogeneity of tumor occurrence and development, multi-mode synergistic therapy is more effective than single treatment modes to improve the antitumor efficacy. Also, multifunctional probes are crucial to realize synergistic therapy. Herein, a multifunctional DNA tetrahedron nanoprobe was ingeniously designed to simultaneously achieve chemodynamic therapy (CDT) and gene silencing for synergistic antitumor. The multifunctional DNA tetrahedron nanoprobe, DNA tetrahedron-silver nanocluster-antagomir-21 (D-sgc8-DTNS-AgNCs-Anta-21), integrated a CDT reagent (DNA-AgNCs) and miRNA-21 inhibitor (Anta-21) with a specific recognition probe (aptamer). After targeted entry in cancer cells, D-sgc8-DTNS-AgNCs-Anta-21 silenced endogenous miRNA-21 by Anta-21 and produced highly toxic ˙OH by reacting with H2O2, which induced apoptosis in the tumor cells. The targeted recognition of aptamers led to the concentration-dependent death of HeLa cells. On the contrary, the cell survival rate of normal cells was basically unaffected with an increase in the concentration of D-sgc8-DTNS-AgNCs-Anta-21. Therefore, the diverse functions, biocompatibility and programmability of DNA provide a useful and easy way to assemble multifunctional probes for synergistic therapy.
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