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Nanoparticle Multivalency Directed Shifting of Cellular Uptake Mechanism

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Title Nanoparticle Multivalency Directed Shifting of Cellular Uptake Mechanism
 
Creator Dalal, Chumki
Saha, Arindam
Jana, Nikhil R
 
Subject Electronics
 
Description Although nanoparticle multivalency is known to influence their biological labeling performance, the functional role of multivalency is largely unexplored. Here we show that the folate receptor mediated cellular internalization mechanism of 35-50 nm nanoparticle shifts from caveolae- to clathrin-mediated endocytosis as the nanoparticle multivalency increases from 10 to 40 and results in the difference of their subcellular trafficking. We have synthesized folate functionalized multivalent quantum dot (QD) with varied average numbers of folate per QD between 10 and 110 e.g., QD(folate)(10), QD(folate)(20), QD(folate)(40), QD(folate)(110)] and investigated their uptake and localization into folate receptor overexpressed HeLa and KB cells. We found that uptake of QD(folate)(10) occurs predominantly via caveolae-mediated endocytosis and entirely trafficked to the perinuclear region. In contrast, uptake of QD(folate)(20) occurs via both caveolae- and chathrin-mediated endocytosis; uptake of QD(folate)(40) and QD (folate)(110) occurs predominantly via clathrin-mediated endocytosis and these three QDs localize predominantly at lysosome with restricted trafficking to the perinudear region. This work shows the functional role of multivalent interaction in cellular endocytosis and intracellular trafficking which can be exploited for subcellular targeting applications.
 
Publisher American Chemical Society
 
Date 2016-03
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://cgcri.csircentral.net/3675/1/jana.pdf
Dalal, Chumki and Saha, Arindam and Jana, Nikhil R (2016) Nanoparticle Multivalency Directed Shifting of Cellular Uptake Mechanism. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 120 (12). pp. 6778-6786. ISSN 1932-7447
 
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