Bispecific aptamer-decorated and light-triggered nanoparticles targeting tumor and stromal cells in breast cancer derived organoids: implications for precision phototherapies.
Camorani S., Caliendo A., Morrone E., Agnello L., Martini M., Cantile M.
Laboratory Study, published in J Exp Clin Cancer Res (2024) — summary generated from the PubMed abstract.
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- Study type
- Laboratory Study
- Journal
- J Exp Clin Cancer Res (2024)
- Country
- England
- Reported sample size
- —
- Source database
- PubMed
- PMID
- 38532439
- DOI
- 10.1186/s13046-024-03014-x
Abstract (original English)
Based on the established role of cancer-stroma cross-talk in tumor growth, progression and chemoresistance, targeting interactions between tumor cells and their stroma provides new therapeutic approaches. Dual-targeted nanotherapeutics selectively acting on both tumor and stromal cells may overcome the limits of tumor cell-targeting single-ligand nanomedicine due to the complexity of the tumor microenvironment. Gold-core/silica-shell nanoparticles embedding a water-soluble iridium(III) complex as photosensitizer and luminescent probe (Ir en -AuSiO 2 _COOH) were efficiently decorated with amino-terminated EGFR (CL4) and PDGFRβ (Gint4.T) aptamers (Ir en -AuSiO 2 _Aptamer). The targeting specificity, and the synergistic photodynamic and photothermal effects of either single- and dual-aptamer-decorated nanoparticles have been assessed by confocal microscopy and cell viability assays, respectively, on different human cell types including mesenchymal subtype triple-negative breast cancer (MES-TNBC) MDA-MB-231 and BT-549 cell lines (both EGFR and PDGFRβ positive), luminal/HER2-positive breast cancer BT-474 and epidermoid carcinoma A431 cells (only EGFR positive) and adipose-derived mesenchymal stromal/stem cells (MSCs) (only PDGFRβ positive). Cells lacking expression of both receptors were used as negative controls. To take into account the tumor-stroma interplay, fluorescence imaging
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- • This is preclinical work; animal or laboratory results cannot be applied to humans.
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