A Cancer Cell Selective Replication Stress Nano Amplifier Promotes Replication Fork Catastrophe to Overcome Radioresistance.

Replication stress (RS) induced by DNA damage plays a significant role in conferring the anticancer effects of radiotherapy and is tightly associated with radioresistance of cancer cells. Amplification of RS represents an effective approach to improving the efficacy of radiotherapy, although the development of selective RS amplifiers remains an unexplored frontier. We herein present an RS nano amplifier (RSNA) consisting of a catalytic FePt nanoparticle loaded with the chemotherapeutic doxorubicin (DOX), which selectively exacerbates RS in cancer cells by promoting replication fork (RF) catastrophe. RSNA converts the excessive reactive oxygen species (ROS) in cancer cells into oxygen, enhancing the DNA-damaging effects of radiotherapy to create more template lesions that impede RF progression in coalition with DOX. After radiation, ROS scavenging by RSNA accelerates RF progression through damaged template strands, increasing the frequency of RF collapse into double-strand breaks. Moreover, pretreatment with RSNA accumulates cancer cells in the S phase, exposing more RFs to radiation-induced RS. These effects of RSNA convergently maximize RS in cancer cells, effectively overcoming the radioresistance of cancer cells without affecting normal cells. Our study demonstrates the feasibility of selectively amplifying RS to boost radiotherapy.

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