Uptake mechanism of metabolic-targeted gold nanoparticles

Nanomedicine
Tamar DreifussRachela Popovtzer

Abstract

To elucidate the interactions, uptake mechanisms and cytotoxicity profile of glucose-functionalized gold nanoparticles (2GF-GNPs), for expanding and advancing the recently proposed technology of metabolic-based cancer detection to a variety of cancer diseases. Several cell types with different metabolic features were used to assess the involvement of GLUT-1 and different endocytosis pathways in 2GF-GNP uptake, and the cytotoxicity profile of 2GF-GNPs. Cellular uptake of 2GF-GNP strongly correlated with GLUT-1 surface expression, and occurred mainly through clathrin-mediated endocytosis. 2GF-GNPs showed no toxic effect on cell cycle and proliferation. These findings promote development of metabolic-based cancer detection technologies, and suggest that 2GF-GNPs may enable specific cancer detection in a wide range of tumors characterized by high GLUT-1 expression.

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Dec 29, 2020·ACS Nano·Chen Tzror-AzankotRachela Popovtzer

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
transmission
dynamic light scattering
fluorescence microscopy
flow cytometry
flame
atomic absorption spectroscopy
scanning electron microscopy
flame atomic absorption spectroscopy

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Fiji
ImageJ

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