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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 427, Issue 3, Pages 553-556Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2012.09.095
Keywords
Nanoparticle; Silica; Immune-modulating effect; Safety
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- Knowledge Cluster Initiative (MEXT)
- Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan (MHLW)
- Ministry of the Environment
- Food Safety Commission (Cabinet Office)
- Cosmetology Research Foundation
- Smoking Research Foundation
- Takeda Science Foundation
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23659078, 21390046] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Nanomaterials (NMs) exhibit unique physicochemical properties and innovative functions, and they are increasingly being used in a wide variety of fields. Ensuring the safety of NMs is now an urgent task. Recently, we reported that amorphous silica nanoparticles (nSPs), one of the most widely used NMs, enhance antigen-specific cellular immune responses and may therefore aggravate immune diseases. Thus, to ensure the design of safer nSPs, investigations into the effect of nSPs on antigen presentation in dendritic cells, which are central orchestrators of the adaptive immune response, are now needed. Here, we show that nSPs with diameters of 70 and 100 nm enhanced exogenous antigen entry into the cytosol from endosomes and induced cross-presentation, whereas submicron-sized silica particles (>100 nm) did not. Furthermore, we show that surface modification of nSPs suppressed cross-presentation. Although further studies are required to investigate whether surface-modified nSPs suppress immune-modulating effects in vivo, the current results indicate that appropriate regulation of the characteristics of nSPs, such as size and surface properties, will be critical for the design of safer nSPs. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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