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BIOCONJUGATE CHEMISTRY
Volume 23, Issue 10, Pages 2061-2070Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bc3002634
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- Department of Chemistry of Syracuse University
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Oligonucleotide-functionalized gold nanoparticles (AuNP) were designed and synthesized to be delivery vehicles for the clinically used anticancer drugs doxorubicin (DOX) and actinomycin D (ActD). Each vehicle contains a tailorable number of DNA duplexes, each possessing three high-affinity sequences for the intercalation of either DOX or ActD, thus allowing for control of drug loading. Drug binding was evaluated by measuring changes to DNA melting temperature, T-m, hydrodynamic diameter, D-h, and surface plasmon resonance wavelength, lambda(spr), with drug loading. These studies indicate that DOX intercalates at its high-affinity sequence bound at the AuNP, and that ActD exhibits relatively weaker binding to its preferred sequence. Agarose gel electrophoresis further confirmed drug binding and revealed that particle mobilities inversely correlate with D-h. The equilibrium binding constant, K, and dissociation rate constant, beta, were determined by dialysis. Results indicate that the high negative electrostatic potential within the DNA shell of the particle significantly decreases beta and enhances K for DOX but has little effect on K and beta for ActD. The cytotoxicity of the vehicles was studied, with IC50 = 5.6 +/- 1.1 mu M and 46.4 +/- 9.3 nM for DOX-DNA-AuNP and IC50 = 0.12 +/- 0.07 mu M and 0.76 +/- 0.46 nM for ActD-DNA-AuNP, in terms of drug and particle concentrations, respectively.
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