| Literature DB >> 21232787 |
Xi Li1, Hongyu Zhou, Lei Yang, Guoqing Du, Atmaram S Pai-Panandiker, Xuefei Huang, Bing Yan.
Abstract
A dual-ligand gold nanoparticle (DLGNP) was designed and synthesized to explore the therapeutic benefits of multivalent interactions between gold nanoparticles (GNPs) and cancer cells. DLGNP was tested on human epidermal cancer cells (KB), which had high expression of folate receptor. The cellular uptake of DLGNP was increased by 3.9 and 12.7 folds compared with GNP-folate or GNP-glucose. The enhanced cell recognition was due to multivalent interactions between both ligands on GNPs and cancer cells as shown by the ligand competition experiments. Furthermore, the multivalent interactions increased contrast between cells with high and low expression of folate receptors. The enhanced cell recognition enabled DLGNP to kill KB cells under X-ray irradiation at a dose that was safe to folate receptor low-expression (such as normal) cells. Thus DLGNP has the potential to be a cancer-specific nano-theranostic agent.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID： 21232787 PMCID： PMC3038783 DOI： 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2010.12.031
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biomaterials ISSN： 0142-9612 Impact factor: 12.479