Time evolution and dynamic cellular uptake of PEGYlated gold nanorods

RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 8089-8092 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongyuan Song ◽  
Qingqiang Xu ◽  
Hongwei Di ◽  
Ting Guo ◽  
Zhongtian Qi ◽  
...  

The protein corona formed and evolved of PEGYlated GNRs which alter GNRs characteristics significantly leading to dynamic cellular uptake pathways.

Nanoscale ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (13) ◽  
pp. 6948-6957 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilena Hadjidemetriou ◽  
Zahraa Al-Ahmady ◽  
Kostas Kostarelos

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoning Zhang ◽  
Meifeng Li ◽  
Yuanping Lv ◽  
Xiaoling Sun ◽  
Yao Han ◽  
...  

Abstract Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) are modified immediately by the adsorption of β-lactoglobulin (βlg) when designed as colorimetric probe in raw milk, leading to the formation of a protein corona. This adsorption results mainly from a fast electrostatic force and a slow formation of Au-S covalent bonds, which is a precondition for the use of AuNPs in biodetection. The proteins corona influences the structure and bioactivity of adsorbed protein, such as the allergy. In this study, the mechanism of βlg adsorbed on AuNPs was investigated in terms of stoichiometry, binding affinity (Ka), time evolution of Au-S bond, and general secondary structure changes to address the desensitization of AuNPs. The results show that about 3,600 βlg are adsorbed on a single AuNPs, and the Ka is 2.9 ± 0.7 × 10 6 M -1 . The formation of Au-S bonds takes about 9 h, which is the time needed for complete changes in secondary structure and the IgE combining capacity. The structure of allergenic epitopes assigned to β-sheet was destroyed by the formation of Au-S bond, then induced to the decrease allergy. Furthermore, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy confirmed a decrease in β-sheet contents after conjugated with AuNPs.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 2250
Author(s):  
Shanmugavel Chinnathambi ◽  
Nobutaka Hanagata ◽  
Tomohiko Yamazaki ◽  
Naoto Shirahata

A better understanding of the compatibility of water-soluble semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) upon contact with the bloodstream is important for biological applications, including biomarkers working in the first therapeutic spectral window for deep tissue imaging. Herein, we investigated the conformational changes of blood plasma proteins during the interaction with near-infrared light-emitting nanoparticles, consisting of Pluronic F127 shells and cores comprised of assembled silicon QDs terminated with decane monolayers. Albumin and transferrin have high quenching constants and form a hard protein corona on the nanoparticle. In contrast, fibrinogen has low quenching constants and forms a soft protein corona. A circular dichroism (CD) spectrometric study investigates changes in the protein’s secondary and tertiary structures with incremental changes in the nanoparticle concentrations. As expected, the addition of nanoparticles causes the denaturation of the plasma proteins. However, it is noteworthy that the conformational recovery phenomena are observed for fibrinogen and transferrin, suggesting that the nanoparticle does not influence the ordered structure of proteins in the bloodstream. In addition, we observed enabled cellular uptake (NIH3T3 Fibroblasts) and minimal cytotoxicity using different cell lines (HeLa, A549, and NIH3T3). This study offers a basis to design QDs without altering the biomacromolecule’s original conformation with enabled cellular uptake with minimal cytotoxicity.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (22) ◽  
pp. 4870-4882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Peigneux ◽  
Emanuel A. Glitscher ◽  
Rawan Charbaji ◽  
Christoph Weise ◽  
Stefanie Wedepohl ◽  
...  

Colloidal stability and cellular uptake of MamC-biomimetic magnetite nanoparticles (BMNPs) incubated with human plasma (PC-BMNPs).


Nanoscale ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (48) ◽  
pp. 23259-23267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Piloni ◽  
Chin Ken Wong ◽  
Fan Chen ◽  
Megan Lord ◽  
Andreas Walther ◽  
...  

Patterned nanoparticle surfaces can repel protein absorption and prevent the formation of a protein corona, which alters the biological behavior and therefore the fate of the nanoparticle.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 1374-1384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deshani Fernando ◽  
Shoukath Sulthana ◽  
Yolanda Vasquez

2020 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 333-342
Author(s):  
Maximilian Brückner ◽  
Johanna Simon ◽  
Shuai Jiang ◽  
Katharina Landfester ◽  
Volker Mailänder

ACS Nano ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 3623-3632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eudald Casals ◽  
Tobias Pfaller ◽  
Albert Duschl ◽  
Gertie Janneke Oostingh ◽  
Victor Puntes

2007 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 221-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hironobu Takahashi ◽  
Takuro Niidome ◽  
Takahito Kawano ◽  
Sunao Yamada ◽  
Yasuro Niidome

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