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SUBMITTER: Lian X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6621563 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lian Xizhen X Huang Yanyan Y Zhu Yuanyuan Y Fang Yu Y Zhao Rui R Joseph Elizabeth E Li Jialuo J Pellois Jean-Philippe JP Zhou Hong-Cai HC
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20180414 20
Prodrug activation, by exogenously administered enzymes, for cancer therapy is an approach to achieve better selectivity and less systemic toxicity than conventional chemotherapy. However, the short half-lives of the activating enzymes in the bloodstream has limited its success. Demonstrated here is that a tyrosinase-MOF nanoreactor activates the prodrug paracetamol in cancer cells in a long-lasting manner. By generating reactive oxygen species (ROS) and depleting glutathione (GSH), the product ...[more]