Oral creatine-modified selenium-based hyaluronic acid nanogel mediated mitochondrial energy recovery to drive the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease

PMID: 39609811
Source: J Nanobiotechnology
Publication date: 2024-11-28
Year: 2024

Abstract

The damnification of mitochondrion is often considered to be an important culprit of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), however, there are fewer reports of mechanisms of mitochondria-mediated IBD treatment. Therefore, we first proposed to reboot mitochondrial energy metabolism to treat IBD by capturing the double-sided factor of ROS and creatine (Cr)-assisted energy adjustment. Herein, an oral Cr-modified selenium-based hyaluronic acid (HA) nanogel (HA(Se)-Cr nanogel) was fabricated for treatment of IBD, through ROS elimination and energy metabolism upgradation. More concretely, due to IBD lesion-specific positive charge and the high expression of CD44, HA(Se)-Cr nanogel exhibited dual targeted inflammatory bio-functions, and ROS-driven degradation properties in high-yield ROS levels in inflammation areas. As expected, multifunctional HA(Se)-Cr nanogel could effectively ameliorate IBD-related symptoms, such as mitochondrial biological function restoration, inhibition of M1-like macrophage polarization, gut mucosal reconstruction, microbial ecological repair, etc., thus excellently treating IBD. Overall, the proposed strategy underlined that the great potentiality of HA(Se)-Cr nanogel by restarting mitochondrial metabolic energy in colitis lesions, providing new a pavement of mitochondrion-mediated colitis treatment in clinical applications.