Developing Single-Atomic Manganese Nanozymes for Synergistic Mild Photothermal/Multienzymatic Therapy

Cun-shuo Wang, Hai-bin Xue, Liang Zhuang, Hai-peng Sun, Hua Zheng, Shuai Wang, Shan He, Xiao-bo Luo · 2023

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Cun-shuo Wang and co-authors report a nanomedicine study, published in 2023, on treating bone cancer with single atoms of manganese. Osteosarcoma tumors resist treatment partly because they lack oxygen and guard themselves with antioxidants. The team spread individual manganese atoms across black nitrogen doped carbon sheets, making a material that both heats under near infrared light and acts like several enzymes at once.

The enzyme like actions turn tumor hydrogen peroxide into oxygen, then into a toxic radical, while draining the tumor's antioxidant shield and disabling one of its guard proteins. Heat and chemical attack together build up fat damage inside tumor cells. The authors present the combined mild heating and multi enzyme strategy as a new route against this stubborn cancer.

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CREATORCun-shuo Wang, Hai-bin Xue, Liang Zhuang, Hai-peng Sun, Hua Zheng, Shuai Wang, Shan He, Xiao-bo Luo
YEAR2023
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE48 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC10753745

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