TY - JOUR
T1 - Single-walled carbon nanohorns decorated with semiconductor quantum dots to evaluate intracellular transport
AU - Zimmermann, Kristen A.
AU - Inglefield, David L.
AU - Zhang, Jianfei
AU - Dorn, Harry C.
AU - Long, Timothy E.
AU - Rylander, Christopher G.
AU - Rylander, M. Nichole
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank Dr. David Geohegan at Oak Ridge National Laboratories for generously providing the SWNHs for this research; Dr. Mitsu Murayama and Jay Tuggle at Virginia Tech for assistance with TEM; Melissa Makris at Virginia Tech for her assistance with running the FACSARIA flow cytometer; and Dr. Olga Ivanova for their helpful discussions with this project. Funding for this study was provided by the National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award CBET 0955072, the National Institute of Health Grant 1R21 CA135230-01, an Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Sciences (ICTAS, Virginia Tech) Grant, the National Institute of Health Grant R21 CA156078, the National Science Foundation Grant CBET 0933571, and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
PY - 2014/1
Y1 - 2014/1
N2 - Single-walled carbon nanohorns (SWNHs) have great potential to enhance thermal and chemotherapeutic drug efficiencies for cancer therapies. Despite their diverse capabilities, minimal research has been conducted so far to study nanoparticle intracellular transport, which is an important step in designing efficient therapies. SWNHs, like many other carbon nanomaterials, do not have inherent fluorescence properties making intracellular transport information difficult to obtain. The goals of this project were to (1) develop a simple reaction scheme to decorate the exohedral surface of SWNHs with fluorescent quantum dots (QDs) and improve conjugate stability, and (2) evaluate SWNH-QD conjugate cellular uptake kinetics and localization in various cancer cell lines of differing origins and morphologies. In this study, SWNHs were conjugated to CdSe/ZnS core/shell QDs using a unique approach to carbodiimide chemistry. Transmission electron microscopy and electron dispersive spectroscopy verified the conjugation of SWNHs and QDs. Cellular uptake kinetics and efficiency were characterized in three malignant cell lines: U-87 MG (glioblastoma), MDA-MB-231 (breast cancer), and AY-27 (bladder transitional cell carcinoma) using flow cytometry. Cellular distribution was verified by confocal microscopy, and cytotoxicity was also evaluated using an alamarBlue assay. Results indicate that cellular uptake kinetics and efficiency are highly dependent on cell type, highlighting the significance of studying nanoparticle transport at the cellular level. Nanoparticle intracellular transport investigations may provide information to optimize treatment parameters (e.g., SWNH concentration, treatment time, etc.) depending on tumor etiology.
AB - Single-walled carbon nanohorns (SWNHs) have great potential to enhance thermal and chemotherapeutic drug efficiencies for cancer therapies. Despite their diverse capabilities, minimal research has been conducted so far to study nanoparticle intracellular transport, which is an important step in designing efficient therapies. SWNHs, like many other carbon nanomaterials, do not have inherent fluorescence properties making intracellular transport information difficult to obtain. The goals of this project were to (1) develop a simple reaction scheme to decorate the exohedral surface of SWNHs with fluorescent quantum dots (QDs) and improve conjugate stability, and (2) evaluate SWNH-QD conjugate cellular uptake kinetics and localization in various cancer cell lines of differing origins and morphologies. In this study, SWNHs were conjugated to CdSe/ZnS core/shell QDs using a unique approach to carbodiimide chemistry. Transmission electron microscopy and electron dispersive spectroscopy verified the conjugation of SWNHs and QDs. Cellular uptake kinetics and efficiency were characterized in three malignant cell lines: U-87 MG (glioblastoma), MDA-MB-231 (breast cancer), and AY-27 (bladder transitional cell carcinoma) using flow cytometry. Cellular distribution was verified by confocal microscopy, and cytotoxicity was also evaluated using an alamarBlue assay. Results indicate that cellular uptake kinetics and efficiency are highly dependent on cell type, highlighting the significance of studying nanoparticle transport at the cellular level. Nanoparticle intracellular transport investigations may provide information to optimize treatment parameters (e.g., SWNH concentration, treatment time, etc.) depending on tumor etiology.
KW - Cancer
KW - Cellular distribution
KW - Nanobiotechnology
KW - Quantum dot (QD)
KW - Single-walled carbon nanohorn (SWNH)
KW - Uptake kinetics
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U2 - 10.1007/s11051-013-2078-3
DO - 10.1007/s11051-013-2078-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84888806453
SN - 1388-0764
VL - 16
JO - Journal of Nanoparticle Research
JF - Journal of Nanoparticle Research
IS - 1
M1 - 2078
ER -