Physiological Microenvironment Dependent Self-Cross-Linking of Multifunctional Nanohybrid for Prolonged Antibacterial Therapy via Synergistic Chemodynamic–Photothermal–Biological Processes
Yi Liu, Wei Chen, Wenyun Mu, Qian Zhou, Jie Liu, Baixue Li, Tao Liu, Tingting Yu, Nan Hu, Xin Chen
Abstract
Herein, a multifunctional nanohybrid (PL@HPF TM nanoparticles) was fabricated to perform the integration of chemodynamic therapy, photothermal therapy, and biological therapy over the long term at a designed location for continuous antibacterial applications. The PL@HPF TM nanoparticles consisted of a polydopamine/hemoglobin/Fe 2+ nanocomplex with comodification of tetrazole/alkene groups on the surface as well as coloading of antimicrobial peptides and luminol in the core. During therapy, the PL@HPF TM nanoparticles would selectively cross-link to surrounding bacteria via tetrazole/alkene cycloaddition under chemiluminescence produced by the reaction between luminol and overexpressed H 2 O 2 at the infected area. The resulting PL@HPF TM network not only significantly damaged bacteria by Fe 2+ -catalyzed ROS production, effective photothermal conversion, and sustained release of antimicrobial peptides but dramatically enhanced the retention time of these therapeutic agents for prolonged antibacterial therapy. Both in vitro and in vivo results have shown that our PL@HPF TM nanoparticles have much higher bactericidal efficiency and remarkably longer periods of validity than free antibacterial nanoparticles.