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An Enzyme-Like Catalyzed Nanosheets for Redox Stress Oscillation Therapy Against Bacterial Infections

  • Adv Sci (Weinh). 2025 Dec 17:e19334. doi: 10.1002/advs.202519334.
Min Ge 1 Zhao Guo 2 Zhiming Zhang 3 Lanlu Lu 4 Zesong Ruan 2 Tingwang Shi 2 Yunfeng Chen 2 Ju Huang 5 Chaoliang Tan 1 Han Lin 3
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Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Electrical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR, 999077, P. R. China.
  • 2 Department of Orthopaedics, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, 600 Yishan Road, Shanghai, 200233, P. R. China.
  • 3 State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics Chinese Academy of Sciences; Research Unit of Nanocatalytic Medicine in Specific Therapy for Serious Disease, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Shanghai, 200050, P. R. China.
  • 4 National Facility for Protein Science in Shanghai, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201210, P. R. China.
  • 5 Department of Ultrasound, Women and Children's Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, 120 Longshan Road, Chongqing, 401147, P. R. China.
Abstract

The presence of Bacterial biofilms creates a physicochemical barrier, as their dense networks and redox homeostasis prevent the penetration of antimicrobial agents, Reactive Oxygen Species, and host immune cells, rendering them highly resistant to antimicrobial treatment and immune-mediated killing and clearance. Here, this study demonstrates that SnSe nanosheets with enzyme-like properties and piezoelectric catalysis can oscillate to regulate Bacterial redox homeostasis and improve the lactate-rich immunosuppressive microenvironment of the Infection. This strategy enhances innate immune cell responses to Infection or inflammation, achieving effective biofilm clearance on implant surfaces and surrounding tissues in a mouse surgical implant Infection model. It reshapes the local immune microenvironment, allowing comprehensive Infection control and effective restoration of tissue function. Mechanistically, redox stress oscillation therapy reprograms Bacterial amino acid metabolism to induce reductive stress, which then generates oxidative stress under piezoelectric catalysis, resulting in continuously oscillating redox stress within the biofilm. Therefore, this study provides an alternative and promising strategy for the treatment of Bacterial biofilm infections with recalcitrant redox homeostasis.

Keywords

bacterial metabolism; biofilm eradication; enzyme‐like activity; nanocatalysis; redox regulation.

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