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NANOTECHNOLOGY
卷 24, 期 26, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/24/26/265102
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- Christ's College, Cambridge
- EPSRC Cambridge NanoDTC [EP/G037221/1]
- Royal Academy of Engineering and King's College, Cambridge
- Oppenheimer Fellowship
- Homerton College Fellowship
- EPSRC [EP/G037221/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [1108045] Funding Source: researchfish
We study the spectral characteristics of bovine serum albumin (BSA) protein conjugated single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), and quantify their uptake by macrophages. The binding of BSA onto the SWNT surface is found to change the protein structure and to increase the doping of the nanotubes. The G-band Raman intensity follows a well-defined power law for SWNT concentrations of up to 33 mu g ml(-1) in aqueous solutions. Subsequently, in vitro experiments demonstrate that incubation of BSA-SWNT complexes with macrophages affects neither the cellular growth nor the cellular viability over multiple cell generations. Using wide spot Raman spectroscopy as a fast, non-destructive method for statistical quantification, we observe that macrophages effectively uptake BSA-SWNT complexes, with the average number of nanotubes internalized per cell remaining relatively constant over consecutive cell generations. The number of internalized SWNTs is found to be similar to 30 x 10(6) SWNTs/cell for a 60 mm(-2) seeding density and similar to 100 x 10(6) SWNTs/cell for a 200 mm(-2) seeding density. Our results show that BSA-functionalized SWNTs are an efficient molecular transport system with low cytotoxicity maintained over multiple cell generations.
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