One-pot synthesis of carbon dots with intrinsic folic acid for synergistic imaging-guided photothermal therapy of prostate cancer cells

Photothermal therapy (PTT) is performed using near-infrared-responsive agents, which is proven to be an effective therapeutic strategy against cancer with several advantages including minimal invasion, high effectiveness, and easy implementation. Herein, we report a facile and novel one-pot syntheti...

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Published inBiomaterials science Vol. 7; no. 12; pp. 5187 - 5196
Main Authors Phan, Le Minh Tu, Gul, Anam Rana, Le, Thi Ngoc, Kim, Min Woo, Kailasa, Suresh Kumar, Oh, Kyung Taek, Park, Tae Jung
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Royal Society of Chemistry 01.12.2019
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Summary:Photothermal therapy (PTT) is performed using near-infrared-responsive agents, which is proven to be an effective therapeutic strategy against cancer with several advantages including minimal invasion, high effectiveness, and easy implementation. Herein, we report a facile and novel one-pot synthetic approach for the fabrication of polydopamine-folate carbon dots (PFCDs) as theranostic nanocarriers for the image-guided PTT targeting of prostate cancer (PCa) cells that express a prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) (folate hydrolase 1). The as-fabricated PFCDs exhibited several advantages such as easy preparation, high biocompatibility, low toxicity, good water-solubility, and excellent photothermal effect with robust blue fluorescence emission. The PSMA-directed imaging of PCa using PFCDs showed remarkable fluorescence enhancement in LNCap cells as compared to the case of other cells that did not express PSMA. PFCDs exhibited a photothermal effect in the PCa cells when irradiated with an 808 nm laser, which possibly resulted in the complete elimination of the tumor. Thus, these features make PFCDs a promising candidate for PTT. Moreover, PFCD-based PTT provides an effective biomedical platform for cancer therapy. Photothermal therapy (PTT) is performed using near-infrared-responsive agents, which is proven to be an effective therapeutic strategy against cancer with several advantages including minimal invasion, high effectiveness, and easy implementation.
Bibliography:10.1039/c9bm01228a
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ISSN:2047-4830
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DOI:10.1039/c9bm01228a