Journal
NANO LETTERS
Volume 16, Issue 2, Pages 1161-1172Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04467
Keywords
Charge-mediated; nanoparticles; single-particle tracking; single-walled carbon nanotubes; chloroplast; LEEP (lipid exchange envelope and penetration)
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- Department of Energy (DOE)
- Agency of Science Technology and Research Singapore
- Div Of Biological Infrastructure
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1306229] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Nanoparticles offer clear advantages for both passive and active penetration into biologically important membranes. However, the uptake and localization mechanism of nanoparticles within living plants, plant cells, and organelles has yet to be elucidated.(1) Here, we examine the subcellular uptake and kinetic trapping of a wide range of nanoparticles for the first time, using the plant chloroplast as a model system, but validated in vivo in living plants. Confocal visible and near-infrared fluorescent microscopy and single particle tracking of gold-cysteine-AF405 (GNP-Cys-AF405), streptavidin-quantum dot (SA-QD), dextran and poly(acrylic acid) nanoceria, and various polymer-wrapped single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), including lipid-PEG-SWCNT, chitosan-SWCNT and 30-base (dAdT) sequence of ssDNA (AT)(15) wrapped SWCNTs (hereafter referred to asss(AT)(15)-SWCNT), are used to demonstrate that particle size and the magnitude, but not the sign, of the zeta potential are key in determining whether a particle is spontaneously and kinetically trapped within the organelle, despite the negative zeta potential of the envelope. We develop a mathematical model of this lipid exchange envelope and penetration (LEEP) mechanism, which agrees well with observations of this size and zeta potential dependence. The theory predicts a critical particle size below which the mechanism fails at all zeta potentials, explaining why nanoparticles are critical for this process. LEEP constitutes a powerful particulate transport and localization mechanism for nanoparticles within the plant system.
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