Cho, Hong-Jun Lee, Seokyung Park, Sung-Jun Lee, Yong-Deok Jeong, Keunsoo Park, Jae Hyung Lee, Yoon-Sik Kim, Bokyung Jeong, Han-Sin Kim, Sehoon 2024-01-19T19:33:39Z 2024-01-19T19:33:39Z 2021-09-02 2019-07-01 0927-7765 https://pubs.kist.re.kr/handle/201004/119796 Fluorogenic nanoprobes capable of providing microenvironmental information have extensively been developed to improve the diagnostic accuracy for early or metastatic cancer detection. In cancer-associated micro environment, matrix metalloproteinase-2,9 (MMP-2,9) has drawn attention as a representative enzymatic marker for diagnosis, prognosis, and prediction of various cancers, which is overexpressed in the primary site as well as metastatic regions. Here, we devised dual-emissive fluorogenic nanoprobe (DFNP) emitting both MMP-2,9-sensitive and insensitive fluorescence signals, for accurate monitoring of the MMP-2,9 activity in metastatic regions. DFNP was nanoscopically constructed by amphiphilic self-assembly between a constantly fluorescent polymer surfactant labeled with Cy7 (F127-Cy7) and an initially nonfluorescent hydrophobic peptide (Cy5.5-MMP-Q) that is fluorogenic in response to MMP-2,9. Ratiometric readout (Cy5,5/Cy7) by dual-channel imaging could normalize the enzyme-responsive sensing signal relative to the constantly emissive internal reference that reflects the probe amount, allowing for semi-quantitative analysis on the MMP-2,9-related tissue micro environment. In addition to the dual-channel emission, the nanoconstructed colloidal structure of DFNP enabled efficient accumulation to lymph node in vivo. Because of these two colloidal characteristics, when injected intradermally to a mouse model of lymph node metastasis, DFNP could produce reliable ratiometric signals to provide information on the MMP-2,9 activity in the lymph nodes depending on metastatic progression, which corresponded well to the temporal histologic analysis. Furthermore, ratiometric lymph node imaging with DFNP after photodynamic therapy allowed for monitoring a therapeutic response to the given cancer treatment, demonstrating diagnostic and prognostic potential of the nanoconstructed colloidal sensor of tumor micro environment in cancer treatment. English ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES CANCER NANOPARTICLES INVASION Tumor microenvironment-responsive fluorogenic nanoprobe for ratiometric dual-channel imaging of lymph node metastasis Article 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2019.03.047 1 COLLOIDS AND SURFACES B-BIOINTERFACES, v.179, pp.9 - 16 COLLOIDS AND SURFACES B-BIOINTERFACES 179 9 16 scie scopus 000471736600002 2-s2.0-85063495286 Biophysics Chemistry, Physical Materials Science, Biomaterials Biophysics Chemistry Materials Science Article MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES CANCER NANOPARTICLES INVASION Dual-channel fluorescence imaging Fluorogenic nanoprobe Matrix metalloproteinase-2,9 Cancer diagnosis Lymph node metastasis