Plasma membrane targeted photodynamic O2 economizer for hypoxic tumor therapy

The development of photodynamic therapy (PDT) is severely limited by short half-life of singlet oxygen (1O2) and the hypoxic microenvironment. In this work, a plasma membrane targeted photodynamic O2 economizer (designated as P-POE) is developed to improve the subcellular delivery of photosensitizers and alleviate the tumor hypoxia for enhanced PDT effect. After self-assembly into nanomicelles, P-POE has a relatively high stability and a...