RRC ID 75756
Author Taninaka A, Kurokawa H, Kamiyanagi M, Ochiai T, Arashida Y, Takeuchi O, Matsui H, Shigekawa H.
Title Polphylipoprotein-induced autophagy mechanism with high performance in photodynamic therapy.
Journal Commun Biol
Abstract Polphylipoprotein (PLP) is a recently developed nanoparticle with high biocompatibility and tumor selectivity, and which has demonstrated unprecedentedly high performance photosensitizer in photodynamic therapy (PDT) and photodynamic diagnosis. On the basis of these discoveries, PLP is anticipated to have a very high potential for PDT. However, the mechanism by which PLP kills cancer cells effectively has not been sufficiently clarified. To comprehensively understand the PLP-induced PDT processes, we conduct multifaceted experiments using both normal cells and cancer cells originating from the same sources, namely, RGM1, a rat gastric epithelial cell line, and RGK1, a rat gastric mucosa-derived cancer-like mutant. We reveal that PLP enables highly effective cancer treatment through PDT by employing a unique mechanism that utilizes the process of autophagy. The dynamics of PLP-accumulated phagosomes immediately after light irradiation are found to be completely different between normal cells and cancer cells, and it becomes clear that this difference results in the manifestation of the characteristic effect of PDT when using PLP. Since PLP is originally developed as a drug delivery agent, this study also suggests the potential for intracellular drug delivery processes through PLP-induced autophagy.
Volume 6(1)
Pages 1212
Published 2023-11-28
DOI 10.1038/s42003-023-05598-0
PII 10.1038/s42003-023-05598-0
PMID 38017279
PMC PMC10684771
MeSH Animals Autophagy Cell Line, Tumor Nanoparticles* / therapeutic use Photochemotherapy* / methods Photosensitizing Agents / pharmacology Rats
IF 1.516
Resource
Human and Animal Cells RGM1(RCB0876)