| Literature DB >> 20677799 |
Anna M Sauer1, Axel Schlossbauer, Nadia Ruthardt, Valentina Cauda, Thomas Bein, Christoph Bräuchle.
Abstract
Redox-driven intracellular disulfide-cleavage is a promising strategy to achieve stimuli-responsive and controlled drug release. We synthesized colloidal mesoporous silica (CMS) nanoparticles with ATTO633-labeled cysteine linked to the inner particle core via disulfide-bridges and characterized their cysteine release behavior after internalization into HuH7 cells by high-resolution fluorescence microscopy. Our study revealed that endosomal escape is a bottleneck for disulfide-linkage based drug release. Photochemical opening of the endosome leads to successful delivery of fluorescently labeled cysteine to the cytosol.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20677799 DOI: 10.1021/nl102180s
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nano Lett ISSN: 1530-6984 Impact factor: 11.189