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Multidentate zwitterionic chitosan oligosaccharide modified gold nanoparticles: stability, biocompatibility and cell interactions
- Source :
- Nanoscale. 5:3982
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2013.
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Abstract
- Surface engineering of nanoparticles plays an essential role in their colloidal stability, biocompatibility and interaction with biosystems. In this study, a novel multidentate zwitterionic biopolymer derivative is obtained from conjugating dithiolane lipoic acid and zwitterionic acryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine to the chitosan oligosaccharide backbone. Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) modified by this polymer exhibit remarkable colloidal stabilities under extreme conditions including high salt conditions, wide pH range and serum or plasma containing media. The AuNPs also show strong resistance to competition from dithiothreitol (as high as 1.5 M). Moreover, the modified AuNPs demonstrate low cytotoxicity investigated by both MTT and LDH assays, and good hemocompatibility evaluated by hemolysis of human red blood cells. In addition, the intracellular fate of AuNPs was investigated by ICP-MS and TEM. It showed that the AuNPs are uptaken by cells in a concentration dependent manner, and they can escape from endosomes/lysosomes to cytosol and tend to accumulate around the nucleus after 24 h incubation but few of them are excreted out of the cells. Gold nanorods are also stabilized by this ligand, which demonstrates robust dispersion stability and excellent hemocompatibility. This kind of multidentate zwitterionic chitosan derivative could be widely used for stabilizing other inorganic nanoparticles, which will greatly improve their performance in a variety of bio-related applications.
- Subjects :
- Materials science
Biocompatibility
Cell Survival
Polymers
Surface Properties
Metal Nanoparticles
Oligosaccharides
Nanoparticle
engineering.material
Hemolysis
Exocytosis
Dithiolane
chemistry.chemical_compound
Biomimetic Materials
Humans
Organic chemistry
General Materials Science
Colloids
chemistry.chemical_classification
Chitosan
Ligand
Hep G2 Cells
Polymer
Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
Combinatorial chemistry
Endocytosis
chemistry
Colloidal gold
Dispersion stability
engineering
Gold
Biopolymer
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20403372 and 20403364
- Volume :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nanoscale
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e60a56cd89f1e07aef258323024d1dea