Enzyme-loaded glycogen nanoparticles with tumor-targeting Activatable host-guest supramolecule for augmented chemodynamic therapy

• Published in: International journal of biological macromolecules 2022-09, Vol.217, p.878-889
• Main Authors: Yang, Fuwei, Fang, Wenjie, Yang, Meiyang, Chen, Weijun, Xu, Jiamin, Wang, Junze, Li, Wenhua, Zhao, Bingke, Qiu, Lipeng, Chen, Jinghua
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Chemodynamic therapy; Glycogen; Tumor starvation
• ISSN: 0141-8130; 1879-0003
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2022.07.183

Chemodynamic therapy (CDT) has advantages in site-specific killing tumor and avoiding systemically side effect. Although numerous nano-systems have been developed to enhance the intracellular hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) for improving CDT effect, the biocompatibility of the materials limits their further biomedical applications. Herein glycogen, as a natural biological macromolecule, was used to construct a new targeted separable GOx@GF/HC nanoparticle system to deliver glucose oxidase (GOx) for CDT/starvation tumor therapy. Amination glycogen-ferrocene (GF) as a guest core and hyaluronic acid-β-cyclodextrin (HC) as a host shell were synthesized and self-assembled through host-guest interactions to deliver GOx. After being entered into tumor cells, GOx were released to catalyze glucose to produce gluconic acid and H2O2, which in turn cut off the nutrition of tumor cells for starvation therapy and enhanced the generation of OH with ferrous ion through Fenton reaction. Furthermore, GOx@GF/HC also exhibited remarkable tumor-targeting and tumor-suppression in vivo. Therefore, the GOx@GF/HC system can exert excellent synergistic effect of CDT and starvation therapy on cancer treatment through a cascade reaction, which have some potential application for the development of CDT tumor-treatment. •An intracellular triggered nanoparticle for delivering glucose oxidase was prepared.•The nanoparticle GOx@GF/HC was mainly composed by natural macromolecules.•The nanoparticle had the properties of targeting, low toxicity and high efficiency.•The nanoparticle effectively inhibited tumors by chemodynamic and starvation therapy.