Photothermal therapy( PTT) is an extremely promising tumor therapeutic modality.H owever,e xcessive heat inevitably injures normal tissues near tumors,a nd the damage to cancer cells caused by mild hyperthermia is easily repaired by stress-induced heat shock proteins (HSPs). Thus, maximizing the PTT efficiency and minimizing the damage to healthy tissues simultaneously by adopting appropriate therapeutic temperatures is imperative.H erein, an innovative strategy is reported:f erroptosis-boosted mild PTT based on as ingle-atom nanozyme (SAzyme). The Pd SAzyme with atom-economical utilization of catalytic centers exhibits peroxidase (POD) and glutathione oxidase (GSHOx) mimicking activities,a nd photothermal conversion performance,w hich can result in ferroptosis featuring the up-regulation of lipid peroxides (LPO) and reactive oxygen species (ROS). The accumulation of LPO and ROSprovides apowerfulapproach for cleaving HSPs,which enables Pd SAzyme-mediated mildtemperature PTT.
The unique tumor microenvironment (TME) facilitates cancer proliferation and metastasis, and it is hard to cure cancer completely via monotherapy. Herein, a multifunctional cascade bioreactor based on hollow mesoporous Cu2MoS4 (CMS) loaded with glucose oxidase (GOx) is constructed for synergetic cancer therapy by chemo‐dynamic therapy (CDT)/starvation therapy/phototherapy/immunotherapy. The CMS harboring multivalent elements (Cu1+/2+, Mo4+/6+) exhibit Fenton‐like, glutathione (GSH) peroxidase‐like and catalase‐like activity. Once internalized into the tumor, CMS could generate ·OH for CDT via Fenton‐like reaction and deplete overexpressed GSH in TME to alleviate antioxidant capability of the tumors. Moreover, under hypoxia TME, the catalase‐like CMS could react with endogenous H2O2 to generate O2 for activating the catalyzed oxidation of glucose by GOx for starvation therapy accompanied with the regeneration of H2O2. The regenerated H2O2 can devote to Fenton‐like reaction for realizing GOx‐catalysis‐enhanced CDT. Meanwhile, the CMS under 1064 nm laser irradiation shows remarkable tumor‐killing ability by phototherapy due to its excellent photothermal conversion efficiency (η = 63.3%) and cytotoxic superoxide anion (·O2−) generation performance. More importantly, the PEGylated CMS@GOx‐based synergistic therapy combined with checkpoint blockade therapy could elicit robust immune responses for both effectively ablating primary tumors and inhibiting cancer metastasis.
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