Photoactivatable organic semiconducting pro-nanoenzymes

• Main Authors: Li, Jingchao, Huang, Jiaguo, Lyu, Yan, Huang, Jingsheng, Jiang, Yuyan, Xie, Chen, Pu, Kanyi
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Pro-enzymes; Organic Nanoparticles; DRNTU::Engineering::Chemical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/106246; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48098
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Therapeutic enzymes hold great promise for cancer therapy; however, in vivo remote control of enzymatic activity to improve their therapeutic specificity remains challenging. This study reports the development of an organic semiconducting pro-nanoenzyme (OSPE) with a photoactivatable feature for met...