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As growth factor receptor-2 (HER-2), progesterone receptor (PR) and estrogen receptor (ER) are scarce in triple -negative breast cancer (TNBC), it is a great challenge to combat TNBC with high tumor specificity and thera-peutic efficacy. Most traditional treatments including surgical resection, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy would more or less cause serious side effects and drug resistance. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has huge potential in the treatment of TNBC for minimal invasiveness, low toxicity, less drug resistance and high spatiotemporal selec-tivity. Inspired by the advantages of small-molecule-targeted PDT and the sensitization effect of myeloid cell leukemia-1 (MCL-1) inhibitor, a novel photosensitizer BC-Pc was designed by conjugating MCL-1 inhibitor with zinc phthalocyanines. Owning to 3-chloro-6-methyl-1-benzothiophene-2-carboxylic acid (BC) moiety, BC-Pc exhibits the high affinity towards MCL-1 and reduce its self-aggregation in TNBC cells. Therefore, MCL-1 targeted BC-Pc showed remarkable intracellular fluorescence and ROS generation in TNBC cells. Additionally, BC-Pc can selectively sensitize TNBC cells to ROS-induced damage, resulting in improved therapeutic effect to TNBC cells and negligible toxicity to normal cells. More importantly, BC-Pc can effectively inhibit the migration and in-vasion of TNBC cells, and enhance immune response, all of which will be beneficial to eradicate TNBC. To the best of our knowledge, BC-Pc is the novel MCL-targeted photosensitizer, which owns the amplified ROS-induced lethality and anticancer immune response for TNBC. Overall, our study provides a promising strategy to achieve targeting and highly efficient therapy of TNBC.
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JOURNAL OF INORGANIC BIOCHEMISTRY
ISSN: 0162-0134
Year: 2022
Volume: 237
3 . 9
JCR@2022
3 . 8 0 0
JCR@2023
ESI Discipline: BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY;
ESI HC Threshold:60
JCR Journal Grade:1
CAS Journal Grade:1
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SCOPUS Cited Count: 1
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