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- Title
Type I Photosensitizer Targeting G‐Quadruplex RNA Elicits Augmented Immunity for Cancer Ablation.
- Authors
Chen, Wen; Zhang, Yuan; Yi, Hai‐Bo; Wang, Fenglin; Chu, Xia; Jiang, Jian‐Hui
- Abstract
Type I photodynamic therapy (PDT) represents a promising treatment modality for tumors with intrinsic hypoxia. However, type I photosensitizers (PSs), especially ones with near infrared (NIR) absorption, are limited and their efficacy needs improvement via new targeting tactics. We develop a NIR type I PS by engineering acridinium derived donor‐π‐acceptor systems. The PS exhibits an exclusive type I PDT mechanism due to effective intersystem crossing and disfavored energy transfer to O2, and shows selective binding to G‐quadruplexes (G4s) via hydrogen bonds identified by a molecular docking study. Moreover, it enables fluorogenic detection of G4s and efficient O2⋅− production in hypoxic conditions, leading to immunogenic cell death and substantial variations of gene expression in RNA sequencing. Our strategy demonstrates augmented antitumor immunity for effective ablation of immunogenic cold tumor, highlighting its potential of RNA‐targeted type I PDT in precision cancer therapy.
- Subjects
GENE expression; PHOTODYNAMIC therapy; RNA; IMMUNITY; RNA sequencing; QUADRUPLEX nucleic acids; NEAR infrared radiation
- Publication
Angewandte Chemie, 2023, Vol 135, Issue 17, p1
- ISSN
0044-8249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ange.202300162