Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 11, Issue 8, Pages 7812-7822Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b21269
Keywords
two-photon enhanced fluorescence; fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy; doxorubicin; gold nanoparticles; ovarian cancer
Funding
- Ministry of Research and Innovation, CNCS-UEFISCDI [PN-III-P4-ID-PCCF-2016-0142]
- Ministery of Research and Innovation, CNCS - UEFISCDI within PNCDI III [PN-III-P4-ID-PCCF-2016-0142]
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There is still a lack of available techniques to follow noninvasively the intracellular processes as well to track or disentangle various signals from the therapeutic agents at the site of action in the target cells. We present here the assessment of the intracellular kinetics of doxorubicin (DOX) and gold nanoparticle (AuNP) carriers by mapping simultaneously fluorescence and photoluminescence signals by fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy under two-photon excitation (TPE-FLIM). The new nano chemotherapeutic system AuNPs@-gelatin hyd DOX has been fabricated by DOX loading onto the surface of gelatin-biosynthesized AuNPs (AuNPs@gelatin) through a pH-sensitive hydrazone bond. The successful loading of DOX onto Ili the AuNPs was studied by spectroscopic methods and steady-state fluorescence, and the nanosystem pH-responsive character was validated under simulated biological conditions at different pH values (i.e., pH 4.6, 5.3, and 7.4). Considering that the fluorescence lifetime of DOX molecules at a specific point in the cell is a reliable indicator of the discrimination of the different states of the drug in the internalization path, i.e., released versus loaded, the kinetics of AuNPsp gelatin hyd DOX cellular uptake and DOX release was compared to that of free DOX, resulting in two different drug internalization pathways. Finally, cell viability tests were conducted against NIH:OVCAR-3 cell line to prove the efficiency of our chemotherapeutic nanosystem. TPE-FLIM technique could be considered promising for noninvasive, high-resolution imaging of cells with improved capabilities over current one-photon-excited FLIM.
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