Issue 7, 2020

Red blood cell membrane-coated upconversion nanoparticles for pretargeted multimodality imaging of triple-negative breast cancer

Abstract

Upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) have been widely employed for tumor imaging using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and upconversion luminescence (UCL) imaging. The short blood clearance time and immunogenicity of UCNPs have limited their further application in vivo. We have designed UCNPs camouflaged with an exterior red blood cell (RBC) membrane coating (RBC-UCNPs) to solve these problems. Moreover, because of some intrinsic disadvantages of MRI and UCL imaging, we investigated the use of pretargeted RBC-UCNPs for positron-emission tomography (PET) imaging to obtain more comprehensive information. Our data showed that RBC-UCNPs retained the immunity feature from the source cells and the superior optical and chemical features from the pristine UCNP cores. The tumor-targeting ability of RBC-UCNPs was enhanced by binding 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine-N-[folate(polyethylene glycol)-2000] (DSPE-PEG-FA) molecules onto the cell membranes. PET imaging with short half-life radionuclides to visualize the RBC-UCNPs was successfully realized by a combination of pre-targeting and in vivo click chemistry. Blood chemistry, hematology, and histologic analysis suggested good in vivo biocompatibility of the RBC-UCNPs. Our method provides a new potential biomedical application of biomimetic nanoparticles.

Graphical abstract: Red blood cell membrane-coated upconversion nanoparticles for pretargeted multimodality imaging of triple-negative breast cancer

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
06 Jan 2020
Accepted
23 Feb 2020
First published
25 Feb 2020

Biomater. Sci., 2020,8, 1802-1814

Red blood cell membrane-coated upconversion nanoparticles for pretargeted multimodality imaging of triple-negative breast cancer

M. Li, H. Fang, Q. Liu, Y. Gai, L. Yuan, S. Wang, H. Li, Y. Hou, M. Gao and X. Lan, Biomater. Sci., 2020, 8, 1802 DOI: 10.1039/D0BM00029A

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