Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 13, Issue 27, Pages 31331-31336Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c09281
Keywords
nanoparticle; cellular regulation; protein; homeostasis; nanozyme
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81773434, 21834007, 82001947, 21991134, 9195310071]
- National Key R&D Program of China [2016YFA0400900]
- Major Science and Technology Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission [2019-01-07-00-01-E00059, 19JC1410300]
- Shanghai Sailing Program [20YF1422200]
- open research program of National Facility for Translational Medicine (Shanghai)
- innovative research team of high-level local universities in Shanghai
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Nanoparticles offer new opportunities for diagnostic and therapeutic strategies due to their unique physical and chemical properties. Protein-mimicking nanoparticles, known as protmins, have shown potential in regulating cellular homeostasis without general toxicity, making them promising candidates for nanomedicine. However, their unexpected behaviors in complex biological systems have raised concerns about biosafety.
The distinct physical and chemical properties of nanoparticles (NPs) offer great opportunities to develop new strategies for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Whereas NPs often serve as inert nanocarriers, their inherent biological activities have recently been extensively unveiled and explored. These protein-mimicking NPs (dubbed protmins) have been reported to modulate a cellular homeostasis without displaying a general toxicity, which may act as potential nanomedicines to provide a monotherapy or combination therapy in a disease treatment. In the meanwhile, the unexpected behaviors of protmins in complex biological systems also raise new concerns on the biosafety issue. Herein, we summarize several categories of the protmin-based regulation of cellular homeostasis and discuss their broad effects on cell functions and behaviors.
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