Document Type
Article
Source Publication Title
Scientific Reports
First Page
1
Last Page
14
DOI
10.1038/s41598-017-09375-y
Abstract
Copper Cysteamine (Cu-Cy) is a new photosensitizer and a novel radiosensitizer that can be activated by light, X-ray and microwave to produce singlet oxygen for cancer treatment. However, the killing mechanism of Cu-Cy nanoparticles on cancer cells is not clear yet and Cu-Cy nanoparticles as novel radiosensitizers have never been tested on colorectal cancers. Here, for the frst time, we investigate the treatment efciency of Cu-Cy nanoparticles on SW620 colorectal cells and elucidate the underlying mechanisms of the efects. The results show that X-ray activated Cu-Cy nanoparticles may kill SW620 cancerscells is in a dose-dependent manner. The JC-1 staining shows the mitochondrial membrane potential is decreased after the treatment. The observations confrm that Cu–Cy nanoparticles may improve X-ray radiotherapy on cancer treatment and X-ray activated Cu-Cy nanoparticles can be efciently destroy colorectal cancer cells by inducing apoptosis as well as autophagy. As a new type of radiosensitizers and photosensitizers, Cu-Cy nanoparticles have a good potential for colorectal cancer treatment and the discovery of autophagy induced by X-ray irradiated Cu-Cy nanoparticles sheds a good insight to the mechanism of Cu-Cy for cancer treatment as a new radiosensitizers.
Publication Date
8-24-2017
Language
English
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Liu, Zhipeng; Xiong, Li; Ouyang, Guoqing; Ma, Lun; Sahi, Sunil; Wang, Kunpeng; Lin, Liangwu; Huang, He; Miao, Xiongying; Chen, Wei; and Wen, Yu, "Investigation of Copper Cysteamine Nanoparticles as a New Type of Radiosensitiers for Colorectal Carcinoma Treatment" (2017). Go Open Fund Publications. 5.
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Comments
This work was supported by the Development and Reform Commission of Hunan (Grant 201583) the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central South University (grant 2016zzts537), the Furong Scholarship from Central South University as well as the support from the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA) under Contracts of W81XWH-10-1-0279 and W81XWH-10-1-0234, and a grant from the Science and Technology Department of Nanning (grant no. 20151266).
Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington