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Zhang Y, Kim I, Lu Y, Xu Y, Yu DG, Song W. Intelligent poly(l-histidine)-based nanovehicles for controlled drug delivery. J Control Release 2022; 349:963-982. [PMID: 35944751 DOI: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2022.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2022] [Revised: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 08/04/2022] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Stimuli-responsive drug delivery systems based on polymeric nanovehicles are among the most promising treatment regimens for malignant cancers. Such intelligent systems that release payloads in response to the physiological characteristics of tumor sites have several advantages over conventional drug carriers, offering, in particular, enhanced therapeutic effects and decreased toxicity. The tumor microenvironment (TME) is acidic, suggesting the potential of pH-responsive nanovehicles for enhancing treatment specificity and efficacy. The synthetic polypeptide poly(l-histidine) (PLH) is an appropriate candidate for the preparation of pH-responsive nanovehicles because the pKa of PLH (approximately 6.0) is close to the pH of the acidic TME. In addition, the pendent imidazole rings of PLH yield pH-dependent hydrophobic-to-hydrophilic phase transitions in the acidic TME, triggering the destabilization of nanovehicles and the subsequent release of encapsulated chemotherapeutic agents. Herein, we highlight the state-of-the-art design and construction of pH-responsive nanovehicles based on PLH and discuss the future challenges and perspectives of this fascinating biomaterial for targeted cancer treatment and "benchtop-to-clinic" translation.
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- Yu Zhang
- School of Pharmacy, Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Shanghai 201318, PR China.
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- School of Chemical Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea.
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- School of Pharmacy, Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Shanghai 201318, PR China
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- School of Pharmacy, Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Shanghai 201318, PR China
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- School of Materials and Chemistry, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, PR China.
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- School of Materials and Chemistry, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, PR China.
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Lloveras V, Elías-Rodríguez P, Bursi L, Shirdel E, Goñi AR, Calzolari A, Vidal-Gancedo J. Multifunctional Switch Based on Spin-Labeled Gold Nanoparticles. NANO LETTERS 2022; 22:768-774. [PMID: 35078323 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The fabrication of multifunctional switches is a fundamental step in the development of nanometer-scale molecular spintronic devices. The anchoring of active organic radicals on gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) surface is little studied and the realization of AuNPs-based switches remains extremely challenging. We report the first demonstration of a surface molecular switch based on AuNPs decorated with persistent perchlorotriphenylmethyl (PTM) radicals. The redox properties of PTM are exploited to fabricate electrochemical switches with optical and magnetic responses, showing high stability and reversibility. Electronic interaction between the radicals and the gold surface is investigated by UV-vis, showing a very broad absorption band in the near-infrared (NIR) region, which becomes more intense when PTMs are reduced to anionic phase. By using multiple experimental techniques, we demonstrate that this interaction is likely favored by the preferentially flat orientation of PTM ligands on the metallic NP surface, as confirmed by first-principles simulations.
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- Vega Lloveras
- Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia Spain
- Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia Spain
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- CNR-NANO Istituto Nanoscienze, Centro S3, I-41125 Modena, Italy
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- Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia Spain
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- Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia Spain
- ICREA, Passeig Lluís Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia Spain
- Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), E-08193 Barcelona, Spain
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Albanese A, Walkey CD, Olsen JB, Guo H, Emili A, Chan WCW. Secreted biomolecules alter the biological identity and cellular interactions of nanoparticles. ACS NANO 2014; 8:5515-26. [PMID: 24797313 DOI: 10.1021/nn4061012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 180] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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A nanoparticle's physical and chemical properties at the time of cell contact will determine the ensuing cellular response. Aggregation and the formation of a protein corona in the extracellular environment will alter nanoparticle size, shape, and surface properties, giving it a "biological identity" that is distinct from its initial "synthetic identity". The biological identity of a nanoparticle depends on the composition of the surrounding biological environment and determines subsequent cellular interactions. When studying nanoparticle-cell interactions, previous studies have ignored the dynamic composition of the extracellular environment as cells deplete and secrete biomolecules in a process known as "conditioning". Here, we show that cell conditioning induces gold nanoparticle aggregation and changes the protein corona composition in a manner that depends on nanoparticle diameter, surface chemistry, and cell phenotype. The evolution of the biological identity in conditioned media enhances the cell membrane affinity, uptake, and retention of nanoparticles. These results show that dynamic extracellular environments can alter nanoparticle-cell interactions by modulating the biological identity. The effect of the dynamic nature of biological environments on the biological identity of nanoparticles must be considered to fully understand nano-bio interactions and prevent data misinterpretation.
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- Alexandre Albanese
- Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto , Toronto, Ontario M5R 0A3, Canada
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Johnson RP, John JV, Kim I. Poly(l-histidine)-containing polymer bioconjugate hybrid materials as stimuli-responsive theranostic systems. J Appl Polym Sci 2014. [DOI: 10.1002/app.40796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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- Renjith P. Johnson
- BK 21 PLUS Center for Advanced Chemical Technology, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering; Pusan National University; Pusan Republic of Korea
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- BK 21 PLUS Center for Advanced Chemical Technology, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering; Pusan National University; Pusan Republic of Korea
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- BK 21 PLUS Center for Advanced Chemical Technology, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering; Pusan National University; Pusan Republic of Korea
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Yamaoki Y, Imamura H, Fulara A, Wójcik S, Bożycki L, Kato M, Keiderling TA, Dzwolak W. An FT-IR study on packing defects in mixed β-aggregates of poly(L-glutamic acid) and poly(D-glutamic acid): a high-pressure rescue from a kinetic trap. J Phys Chem B 2012; 116:5172-8. [PMID: 22506583 DOI: 10.1021/jp2125685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Under favorable conditions of pH and temperature, poly(L-glutamic acid) (PLGA) adopts different types of secondary and quaternary structures, which include spiral assemblies of amyloid-like fibrils. Heating of acidified solutions of PLGA (or PDGA) triggers formation of β(2)-type aggregates with morphological and tinctorial properties typical for amyloid fibrils. In contrast to regular antiparallel β-sheet (β(1)), the amide I' vibrational band of β(2)-fibrils is unusually red-shifted below 1600 cm(-1), which has been attributed to bifurcated hydrogen bonds coupling C═O and N-D groups of the main chains to glutamic acid side chains. However, unlike for pure PLGA, the amide I' band of aggregates precipitating from racemic mixtures of PLGA and PDGA (β(1)) is dominated by components at 1613 and 1685 cm(-1)-typically associated with intermolecular antiparallel β-sheets. The coaggregation of PLGA and PDGA chains is slower and biphasic and leads to less-structured assemblies of fibrils, which is reflected in scanning electron microscopy images, sedimentation properties, and fluorescence intensity after staining with thioflavin T. The β(1)-type aggregates are metastable, and they slowly convert to fibrils with the infrared characteristics of β(2)-type fibrils. The process is dramatically accelerated under high pressure. This implies the presence of void volumes within structural defects in racemic aggregates, preventing the precise alignment of main and side chains necessary to zip up ladders of bifurcated hydrogen bonds. As thermodynamic costs associated with maintaining void volumes within the racemic aggregate increase under high pressure, a hyperbaric treatment of misaligned chains leads to rectifying the packing defects and formation of the more compact form of fibrils.
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- Yudai Yamaoki
- Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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Wu Z, Liang J, Ji X, Yang W. Preparation of uniform Au@SiO2 particles by direct silica coating on citrate-capped Au nanoparticles. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2011.09.059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Yuan Y, Yan N, Dyson PJ. pH-Sensitive Gold Nanoparticle Catalysts for the Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols. Inorg Chem 2011; 50:11069-74. [DOI: 10.1021/ic201608j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Yuan Yuan
- Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Saini R, Srivastava A, Gupta P, Das K. pH dependent reversible aggregation of Chitosan and glycol-Chitosan stabilized silver nanoparticles. Chem Phys Lett 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2011.06.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Gibson MI, Danial M, Klok HA. Sequentially modified, polymer-stabilized gold nanoparticle libraries: convergent synthesis and aggregation behavior. ACS COMBINATORIAL SCIENCE 2011; 13:286-97. [PMID: 21384914 DOI: 10.1021/co100099r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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This manuscript describes a versatile, yet experimentally facile, method for producing libraries of polymer-coated (core−shell type) gold nanoparticles. The synthetic principle relies on two, sequential postmodification reactions, which ensures homogeneity across each series. First, poly(pentafluorophenyl methacrylate) synthesized by RAFT polymerization is used here as a reactive precursor, which can be modified, postpolymerization, to create a library of functional polymers each bearing a ω-thiol end-group. In a second step, these well-defined polymers are then tethered by their ω-thiol group to the surface of prefabricated citrate-stabilized gold nanoparticles to give a library of 75 unique, yet sequentially modified organic−inorganic hybrid particles. The optical properties of the gold core were exploited to create a high-throughput assay for investigating the role of nanoparticle size and surface coating on aggregation in various biologically relevant media. These experiments demonstrated the importance of the type of dissolved salts present and also the strong influence of serum proteins in cell-culture media and their interactions with nanoparticles surfaces, which in turn might affect their biological profiles. Therefore, this method presents a powerful, yet accessible tool for creating model nanoparticle libraries with intrinsic sensing properties.
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- Matthew I. Gibson
- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Institut des Matériaux and Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Laboratoire des Polymères Bâtiment MXD, Station 12, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Institut des Matériaux and Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Laboratoire des Polymères Bâtiment MXD, Station 12, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Institut des Matériaux and Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Laboratoire des Polymères Bâtiment MXD, Station 12, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Progress and development in biosensor development will inevitably focus upon the technology of the nanomaterials that offer promise to solve the biocompatibility and biofouling problems. The biosensors using smart nanomaterials have applications for rapid, specific, sensitive, inexpensive, in-field, on-line and/or real-time detection of pesticides, antibiotics, pathogens, toxins, proteins, microbes, plants, animals, foods, soil, air, and water. Thus, biosensors are excellent analytical tools for pollution monitoring, by which implementation of legislative provisions to safeguard our biosphere could be made effectively plausible. The current trends and challenges with nanomaterials for various applications will have focus biosensor development and miniaturization. All these growing areas will have a remarkable influence on the development of new ultrasensitive biosensing devices to resolve the severe pollution problems in the future that not only challenges the human health but also affects adversely other various comforts to living entities. This review paper summarizes recent progress in the development of biosensors by integrating functional biomolecules with different types of nanomaterials, including metallic nanoparticles, semiconductor nanoparticles, magnetic nanoparticles, inorganic/organic hybrid, dendrimers, and carbon nanotubes/graphene.
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- Ravindra P. Singh
- Nanotechnology Application Centre, University of Allahabad, Allahabad 211 002, India
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Wójcik S, Babenko V, Dzwolak W. Insulin amyloid superstructures as templates for surface enhanced Raman scattering. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2010; 26:18303-18307. [PMID: 21038855 DOI: 10.1021/la103433g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Nanostructuring of noble metal surfaces with biomorphic and biological templates facilitates a variety of applications of surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). Here we show that the newly reported insulin amyloid superstructures may be employed as stable nanoscaffolds for metallic Au films providing an effective substrate for SERS on covalently bound molecules of 4-mercaptobenzoic acid (4-MBA). The vortex-aligned insulin fibrils are capable of templating nanopatterns in sputtered Au layers without overlapping the SERS spectra of 4-MBA with vibrational bands stemming from the protein. This holds true regardless of whether the incident laser beam is directly backscattered from the 4-MBA layer, or after passage through the insulin amyloid layer.
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- Sławomir Wójcik
- Institute of High Pressure Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sokolowska 29/37, 01-142 Warsaw, Poland
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Guo Y, Xia F, Xu L, Li J, Yang W, Jiang L. Switchable wettability on cooperative dual-responsive poly-L-lysine surface. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2010; 26:1024-8. [PMID: 20030299 DOI: 10.1021/la9041452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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A cooperative dual-responsive polypeptide surface switching between superhydrophilic and superhydrophobic states is presented. This macroscopic phenomenon of surface originates from the combination of the cooperative unfolding/aggregation of the poly-L-lysine (PLL) immobilized on the substrate with micro/nanocomposite structure in response to pH and temperature. At pH lower than the pK(a) of PLL (approximately 11.0), PLL mainly adopts a random coil conformation, which corresponds to the superhydrophilic state on the rough surface substrate. Raising the pH to higher than the pK(a) allows the appearance of alpha-helix conformation, which also corresponds to the hydrophilic state. However, heating up the surface at pH higher than the pK(a) destabilizes the alpha-helix conformation and induces the formation of aggregated beta-sheet structures, which represents the superhydrophobic state. Lowering the pH and temperature simultaneously switches a reversible conversion from superhydrophobic to superhydrophilic states. In the switching process, the hydrophobicity and hydrophilicity can be "memorized" due to the cooperative pH and temperature stimuli-induced unfolding/aggregation behaviors of PLL. This provides a new exciting prospect for understanding surface properties of polypeptides and the design of smart material surfaces with potential applications in nanodevices, bioseparation, and biosensors.
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- Yi Guo
- Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry of Jilin Province, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, PR China
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Löwik DWPM, Leunissen EHP, van den Heuvel M, Hansen MB, van Hest JCM. Stimulus responsive peptide based materials. Chem Soc Rev 2010; 39:3394-412. [DOI: 10.1039/b914342b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 248] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Ma Y, Guo Y, Li J, Guan J, Xu L, Yang W. Poly(L-lysine)-Induced Aggregation of Single-Strand Oligo-DNA-Modified Gold Nanoparticles. Chemistry 2009; 15:13135-40. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.200900916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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