Could nanoparticle corona characterization help for biological consequence prediction?

Cancer Nanotechnology

Review

Emilie Brun¹  Cécile Sicard – Roselli¹ 

[1] Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, CNRS UMR8000, Université Paris-Sud, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France;

关键词: Gold nanoparticles;    Culture medium;    Protein corona;    Protein identification;    Cellular interaction;    Hydrodynamic size;    Nanoparticle uptake;    Nanoparticle toxicity;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12645-014-0007-5

 received in 2014-05-20, accepted in 2014-09-11,  发布年份 2014

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

As soon as they enter a biological medium (cell culture medium for in vitro, blood or plasma for in vivo studies), nanoparticles, in most cases, see their surface covered by biomolecules, especially proteins. What the cells see is thus not the ideal nanoparticle concocted by chemists, meaning the biomolecular corona could have great biological and physiological repercussions, sometimes masking the expected effects of purposely grafted molecules. In this review, we will mainly focus on gold nanoparticles. In the first part, we will discuss the fate of these particles once in a biological medium, especially in terms of size, and the protein composition of the corona. We will highlight the parameters influencing the quantity and the identity of the adsorbed proteins. In a second part, we will resume the main findings about the influence of a biomolecular corona on cellular uptake, toxicity, biodistribution and targeting ability. To be noticed is the need for standardized experiments and very precise reports of the protocols and methods used in the experimental sections to extract informative data. Given the biological consequences of this corona, we suggest that it should be taken into account in theoretical studies dealing with nanomaterials to better represent the biological environment.

【 授权许可】

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© Brun and Sicard-Roselli; licensee Springer. 2014. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.