Journal
MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING C-MATERIALS FOR BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
Volume 131, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2021.112512
Keywords
Gold nanorods; Gold nanoprism; Laser irradiation; Glutathione; Methotrexate; Diels-Alder adducts
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- ANID, Chile [21180258]
- Advanced Center for Chronic Diseases
- Fondecyt [1190623, 1211482]
- FONDAP [15130011]
- MINECO-FEDER [BIO 2016-75327-R]
- Generalitat de Catalunya [2017SGR-998]
- Severo Ochoa Award of Excellence from MINECO (Government of Spain)
- IRB Advanced Microscopy Core Facility
- Electronic Microscopy Facility from Centres Cientifics i Tecnologics Universitat de Barcelona
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The study explores the controlled release of an antitumor drug from gold nanorods and gold nanoprisms through external stimuli, such as laser irradiation, in combination with the presence of glutathione to enhance drug release significantly.
The administration and controlled release of drugs over time remains one of the greatest challenges of science today. In the nanomaterials field, anisotropic gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) with plasmon bands centered at the near-infrared region (NIR), such as gold nanorods (AuNRs) and gold nanoprisms (AuNPrs), under laser irradiation, locally increase the temperature, allowing the release of drugs. In this sense, temporally controlled drug delivery could be promoted by external stimuli using thermo-reversible chemical reactions, such as Diels-Alder cycloadditions from a diene and a dienophile fragment (compound a). In this study, an antitumor drug (methotrexate, MTX) was linked to plasmonic AuNPs by a Diels-Alder adduct (compound c), which after NIR suffers a retro-Diels-Alder reaction, producing release of the drug (compound b). We obtained two nanosystems based on AuNRs and AuNPrs. Both nanoconstructs were coated with BSA-r(8) (Bovine Serum Albumin functionalized with Arg(8), all-D octa arginine) in order to increase the colloidal stability and promote internalization of the nano systems on HeLa and SK-BR-3 cells. In addition, the presence of BSA allows protecting the cargo from being released on the extracellular environment and promotes the photothermal release of the drug in the presence of glutathione (GSH). The nanosystems' drug release profile was evaluated after NIR irradiation in the presence and absence of glutathione (GSH), showing a considerable increase of drug release when NIR light and glutathione were combined. This work broadens the range of possibilities of using two complementary strategies for the controlled release of an antitumor drug from AuNRs and AuNPrs: the photothermal cleavage of a thermolabile adduct controlled by an external stimulus (laser irradiation), complemented with the use of the intracellular metabolite GSH.
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