Assembly Module-Empowering Lipid-Prodrug Nanoamplifier for Enhancing Ferroptosis-Driven Cancer Treatment. (PubMed, Nano Lett)
To address this limitation, we developed a lipid-prodrug nanoamplifier (SIM-SS-LA NAs), composed of disulfide-linked linoleic alcohol and simvastatin (SIM) to enhance ferroptosis...Notably, the released LA acts as an exogenous substrate, substantially increasing lipid peroxide accumulation and synergizing with SIM-mediated GPX4 inhibition to amplify ferroptosis. As expected, the lipid-prodrug nanoamplifier showed potent ferroptosis-driven antitumor activity in a 4T1 breast tumor-bearing mouse model, offering an efficient nanotherapeutic strategy for ferroptosis-based cancer therapy.