Journal
SMALL
Volume 10, Issue 8, Pages 1544-1554Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201303234
Keywords
graphene derivatives; functionalization; cytotoxicity; biodegradation; peroxidase
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51222203, 51002100, 51132006]
- National 973 Program of China [2013CB932702, 2012CB932601]
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
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With the increasing interests of using graphene and its derivatives in the area of biomedicine, the systematic evaluation of their potential risks and impacts to biological systems is becoming critically important. In this work, we carefully study how surface coatings affect the cytotoxicity and extracellular biodegradation behaviors of graphene oxide (GO) and its derivatives. Although naked GO could induce significant toxicity to macrophages, coating those two-dimensional nanomaterials with biocompatible macromolecules such as polyethylene glycol (PEG) or bovine serum albumin (BSA) could greatly attenuate their toxicity, as independently evidenced by several different assay approaches. On the other hand, although GO can be gradually degraded through enzyme induced oxidization by horseradish peroxidase (HRP), both PEG and BSA coated GO or reduced GO (RGO) are rather resistant to HRP-induced biodegradation. In order to obtain biocompatible functionalized GO that can still undergo enzymatic degradation, we conjugate PEG to GO via a cleavable disulfide bond, obtaining GO-SS-PEG with negligible toxicity and considerable degradability, promising for further biomedical applications.
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