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CHEMISTRY-AN ASIAN JOURNAL
Volume 16, Issue 23, Pages 3900-3904Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/asia.202101015
Keywords
Carbohydrates; Nanoparticles; Cell culture; Glycobiology; Cytotoxicity
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- IISER, Pune, DBT [BT/PR21934/NNT/28/1242/2017, BT/PR34475/MED/15/210/2020, STARS/APR2019/CS/426/FS, SERB/F/9228/2019-2020]
- DBT-BioCARe grant [BT/PR19727/101/253/2016]
- CSIR-Senior Research Fellowship
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Nanoparticles embedded with bioactive ligands have become a potential tool to target biological processes. Inverted cell-culture assay is a flexible and accurate method to study cellular uptake and cytotoxicity, demonstrating that the glycosylation patterns and shapes of NPs can affect receptor binding affinity. This study highlights the importance of understanding the interaction between nanoparticles and cells for precise targeting and delivery in biological processes.
Nanoparticles (NPs) embedded with bioactive ligands such as carbohydrates, peptides, and nucleic acid have emerged as a potential tool to target biological processes. Traditional in vitro assays performed under statistic conditions may result in non-specific outcome sometimes, mainly because of the sedimentation and self-assembly nature of NPs. Inverted cell-culture assay allows for flexible and accurate detection of the receptor-mediated uptake and cytotoxicity of NPs. By combining this technique with glyco-gold nanoparticles, cellular internalization and cytotoxicity were investigated. Regioselective glycosylation patterns and shapes of the NPs could tune the receptors ' binding affinity, resulting in precise cellular uptake of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). Two cell lines HepG2 and HeLa were probed with galactosamine-embedded fluorescent AuNPs, revealing significant differences in cytotoxicity and uptake mechanism in upright and invert in vitro cell-culture assay, high-specificity toward uptake, and allowing for a rapid screening and optimization technique.
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