一种光功能有机纳米粒子的制备及细胞毒性评价

合成了一种具有双光子荧光探针功能的有机纳米粒子2,5,2',5'-(4'-N,N-二苯胺苯乙烯基)联苯(DPA-TSB), 并研究其细胞毒性. 利用水溶性四氮唑(WST-1)法、 乳酸脱氮酶(LDH)法和流式细胞术检测了胃癌细胞吞噬纳米粒子后的生理活性. 研究结果表明, 在纳米粒子浓度小于12 μg/mL时, 胃癌细胞仍表现出较好的生理活性, 表明该纳米粒子是一种具有较好生物安全性的光功能有机纳米粒子.     

金纳米粒子的表面修饰及生物应用进展

近年来纳米材料被广泛应用于生物医学、航空航天和精细化工等领域。构成纳米材料的纳米粒子具有小尺寸效应、表面效应和宏观量子隧道效应等性质。其中金纳米粒子由于其独特的荧光特性、良好的生物相容性和表面等离子共振等性质,被广大科研人员进行深入研究。例如,在生物医学领域,科研人员构建了一系列新型的金纳米比色传感器、光学探针及各类载药体系等。然而,目前金纳米粒子仍存在水分散性差、肾清除效率低和量子发射产率低等问题,限制了其广泛应用。因此,研究人员对金纳米粒子表面进行多样化修饰,从而能有效克服上述缺点。本文就目前主流配体表面修饰金纳米粒子的研究进展进行了详细总结,着重介绍了功能化金纳米粒子在生物成像、生物检测、生物治疗三方面的应用,最后对金纳米粒子的临床治疗机制的探索以及商业化的应用进行了展望,希望能为相关领域的研究者们提供新思路。     

藤茶干粉提取液还原制备金纳米粒子

用藤茶干粉提取液生物还原氯金酸溶液实现了金纳米粒子绿色制备,通过紫外-可见分光光度计、透射电子显微镜和粒度分布等技术手段对金纳米粒子形态等物性进行了表征,运用控制变量法探究了金纳米粒子生物合成的规律。研究发现,金纳米粒子的粒径、粒径分布、形状和稳定性受反应体系pH值、温度以及氯金酸的用量影响。pH6.47或藤茶干粉提取液过量时会引起纳米金的团聚;温度升高,金纳米粒子平均粒径会减小。通过变量控制,可以实现金纳米粒子绿色合成的有效控制。     

光诱导富精氨酸多肽修饰的Fe2O3@Au纳米粒子的细胞毒性

以人宫颈癌细胞(HeLa细胞)为对象考察了富精氨酸多肽RRRRRRRR(R8)修饰的金-三氧化二铁壳核纳米粒子(R8-Fe2O3@Au NPs)对活细胞的光毒性. 研究结果表明, 内化后的R8-Fe2O3@Au NPs对活HeLa细胞无显著的细胞毒性, 但在激光照射下则可导致HeLa细胞的凋亡, 表现出很强的细胞光毒性. R8-Fe2O3@Au NPs的细胞光毒性与照射激光波长有关, 并随细胞吞噬的R8-Fe2O3@Au NPs的量、 光照强度和时间的增加而增强.     

表面电荷对聚乙二醇修饰金纳米粒子生物行为的影响

利用硫-金键将末端修饰甲氧基、氨基或羧基的巯基化聚乙二醇(Thiolated polyethylene glycol,HS-PEG)分子分别组装到金纳米粒子表面, 合成了3种带有不同表面电荷的聚乙二醇修饰金纳米粒子(PEGylated gold nanoparticles,PEG-Au NP).细胞共培养和小鼠尾静脉注射实验结果表明,表面电荷能够显著影响PEG-Au NP的生物行为.细胞对PEG-Au NP的吞噬量遵循正电荷＞电中性＞负电荷的规律.尾静脉注射的PEG-Au NP能够随小鼠的血液循环由全器官分布逐渐向肝脾转移.表面带负电荷的PEG-Au NP较难被小鼠肝脾清除,带但正电荷的PEG-Au NP能够引起小鼠免疫系统较强的响应.     

基于金纳米粒子的细胞成像及靶向定位EI北大核心CSCD

金纳米粒子(AuNPs)具有局域表面等离子共振性质,吸收光量子后能够产生显著的散射光信号。运用暗场显微镜研究AuNPs在细胞中的迁移,拟合高斯方程对AuNPs进行定位,研究AuNPs标记分子在细胞中的靶向定位方法。研究发现,HepG2细胞摄入AuNPs后分散于胞质中,轴向间隔1 nm采集1001张图片,拟合高斯方程可以得到单个粒子的相对空间位置。因此,功能化的AuNPs在活性分子的驱动下靶向作用于目标细胞器,暗场显微镜对该细胞器进行成像、定位。此方法可进一步用于研究活性分子与细胞的作用机理及新药的研发。     

半导体纳米粒子与金纳米粒子间荧光共振能量转移研究

采用水相法合成的CdTe半导体纳米粒子作为能量给体, 通过Schiff碱反应将单链DNA连接到表面. 采用柠檬酸钠还原氯金酸法制取的Au纳米粒子作为能量受体, 通过Au—S键将单链DNA连接到表面. 通过DNA链间的杂交, 构建了荧光共振能量转移体系(FRET). 测定了CdTe-DNA、 探针体系和探针体系+目标DNA的荧光强度. 结果表明, 探针体系的荧光强度最弱, 加入目标DNA后, 体系荧光增强, 表明该体系的构建是成功的.     

乳液聚合法制备纳米金/聚苯乙烯复合粒子

以氯金酸为前驱体,十二烷基硫醇和硼氢化钠分别作为稳定剂和还原剂,采用相转移法制备了单分散的金纳米粒子.将金纳米粒子通过乳液聚合的方法制备了纳米金/聚苯乙烯复合粒子.通过紫外-可见吸收光谱(UV-Vis)研究了纳米金和纳米金/聚苯乙烯复合粒子的光吸收特性,使用傅立叶变换红外光谱(FT-IR)、X射线衍射(XRD)、透射电子显微镜(TEM)和动态光散射(DLS)对产物的组成、晶体结构、形貌、以及粒径进行了表征.结果表明,复合粒子为粒径分布较窄的球形,其中的金纳米粒子为面心立方结构.热失重分析(TGA)说明制备的纳米金/聚苯乙烯复合粒子具有很好的热稳定性.     

基于金纳米粒子的光学生物传感方法研究进展

光学生物传感是以产生各种光学信号为检测基础的一种微量分析技术,具有操作简便、检测成本低、抗干扰能力强及可实现原位检测等优点,在临床诊断、药物分析、环境监测等领域显示出广阔的应用前景.作为纳米材料重要成员之一的金纳米粒子(AuNPs),因其独特的光学性质被广泛用于光学生物传感方法的构建.该文综述了近年来基于金纳米粒子的光...     

Gold Nanoparticles for Biology and Medicine

Gold colloids have fascinated scientists for over a century and are now heavily utilized in chemistry, biology, engineering, and medicine. Today these materials can be synthesized reproducibly, modified with seemingly limitless chemical functional groups, and, in certain cases, characterized with atomic‐level precision. This Review highlights recent advances in the synthesis, bioconjugation, and cellular uses of gold nanoconjugates. There are now many examples of highly sensitive and selective assays based upon gold nanoconjugates. In recent years, focus has turned to therapeutic possibilities for such materials. Structures which behave as gene‐regulating agents, drug carriers, imaging agents, and photoresponsive therapeutics have been developed and studied in the context of cells and many debilitating diseases. These structures are not simply chosen as alternatives to molecule‐based systems, but rather for their new physical and chemical properties, which confer substantive advantages in cellular and medical applications.     

甲烷氧化菌素催化纳米金合成

甲烷氧化菌素(methanobactin,mb)是具有过氧化氢还原酶活性的荧光肽.从甲基弯菌Methylosinus trichospo-rium IMV3011限铜培养介质中分离mb,采用紫外可见全波长扫描法观察mb催化对苯二酚还原氯金酸合成纳米金的作用和影响,当mb/氯金酸/对苯二酚反应液中mb的浓度分别是2.5×10-5mol/L、5.0×10-5mol/L和1.0×10-4mol/L时,形成的纳米金溶液的特征峰分别是561.5 nm(OD561=0.158)、548.0 nm(OD5 48=0.426)、536.5 nm(OD5 36=0.541),特征峰波长减小,对应的吸光值增大,表明mb能够催化对苯二酚还原氯金酸合成纳米金,并且可以通过调控mb的浓度控制纳米金的合成量及粒径大小.     

A Simple Protocol to Stabilize Gold Nanoparticles using Amphiphilic Block Copolymers: Stability Studies and Viable Cellular Uptake

Di‐ and triblock non‐ionic copolymers based on poly(ethylene oxide) and poly(propylene oxide) were studied for the stabilization of nanoparticles in water at high ionic strength. The effect of the molecular architecture (di‐ vs. triblock) of these amphiphilic copolymers was investigated by using gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) as probes for colloidal stability. The results demonstrate that both di‐ and triblock copolymers can provide long term stability, and that in both cases AuNPs are individually embedded within globules of polymers. However, in the case of diblock copolymers, the colloidal stability was related to the formation of micelles, in contrast with the case of triblock copolymers, which were previously shown to provide good stability even at concentrations at which micelles do not form. Quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) experiments showed that the presence of the hydrophobic block in the structure of the polymer is important to ensure quantitative adsorption upon a gold surface and to limit desorption. We demonstrate that with an appropriate choice of polymer, the polymer/AuNP hybrids can also undergo filtration and freeze‐drying without noticeable aggregation, which can be very convenient for further applications. Finally, preliminary studies of the cytotoxicity effect on fibroblast cells show that the polymer/AuNP hybrids were not cytotoxic. TEM micrographs on ultrathin sections of cells after incubation with the colloidal solutions show that the nanoparticles were internalized into the cells, conserving their initial size and shape.     

Mechanism and Cellular Kinetic Studies of the Enhancement of Antioxidant Activity by Using Surface‐Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles

The enhanced antioxidant activity of surface‐functionalized gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) synthesized by self‐assembly has attracted great attention, but little is known about the mechanism behind the enhanced activity. To address this challenge, the antioxidant activity of Au@PEG3SA (i.e., surface‐functionalization of spherical AuNPs with the antioxidant salvianic acid A) was used as an example to illustrate the mechanism of the enhanced activity. Evaluation of the antioxidant activity was performed in a radical‐scavenging reaction between Au@PEG3SA and 2,2‐diphenyl‐1‐picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical. As expected, the rate constant for the reaction of Au@PEG3SA with DPPH was about nine times greater than that for the salvianic acid A monomer. A comparative analysis of the spectral characteristics of Au@PEG3SA and the salvianic acid A monomer further imply that the enhancement of the antioxidative reaction kinetics may be ascribed to the variation in the transition state for the DPPH‐radical scavenging reaction through π–π stacking interactions between and among adjacent groups on the surface of Au@PEG3SA. On the other hand, the kinetic enhancement of Au@PEG3SA on reactive‐oxygen‐species (ROS) scavenging can be observed in living cells and in vivo, which possibly provides new insight for the bioapplication of self‐assembly of surface‐functionalized AuNPs.     

基于金纳米粒子自组装的分光光度法测定半胱氨酸

在pH 4.56的B ritton-Rob inson(B-R)缓冲溶液中,半胱氨酸的SH和NH3 分别与金纳米粒子表面进行共价结合和静电作用,导致金纳米粒子的长距离自组装,形成网状超分子结构,并使金纳米粒子的最大吸收波长从520 nm红移到660 nm。本实验对半胱氨酸引导的金纳米粒子自组装的作用机制进行了研究,建立了操作简便、高灵敏度测定半胱氨酸的分析方法。其线性范围为0.01~0.20 mg/L;检出限为2.8μg/L(3,σ2.3×10-8mol/L)。在实验条件下,其它常见的氨基酸和谷胱甘肽均不干扰测定。     

Dendronized Gelatin-Mediated Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles

Thermoresponsive dendronized gelatins (GelG1) or gelatin methacrylates (GelG1MA) were used as precursors to modulate the efficient reduction of Au(III) to form stable gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) through UV irradiation. These dendronized gelatins were obtained through the amidation of gelatin or gelatin methacrylates with dendritic oligoethylene glycols (OEGs). Crowded OEG dendrons along the gelatin backbones create a hydrophobic microenvironment, which promotes the reduction of Au(III). Gelatin backbones act as ligands through the electron-rich groups to facilitate the reduction, while the dendritic OEGs provide shielding effects through crowding to form a hydrophobic microenvironment, which not only enhances the reduction but also stabilize the formed AuNPs through encapsulation. The effects of dendron coverage on the dendronized biomacromolecules and their thermoresponsiveness on the reduction kinetics were examined. Dendronized gelatin/AuNPs hydrogels were further prepared through the in situ photo-crosslinking of GelG1MA. The modification of natural macromolecules through dendronization presented in this report facilitates a novel platform for the environmentally friendly synthesis of noble metal nanoparticles, which may form a new strategy for developing smart nano-biosensors and nano-devices.     

Redox-Active Hybrid Polyoxometalate-Stabilised Gold Nanoparticles

We report the design and preparation of multifunctional hybrid nanomaterials through the stabilization of gold nanoparticles with thiol-functionalised hybrid organic–inorganic polyoxometalates (POMs). The covalent attachment of the hybrid POM forms new nanocomposites that are stable at temperatures and pH values which destroy analogous electrostatically functionalised nanocomposites. Photoelectrochemical analysis revealed the unique photochemical and redox properties of these systems.     

纳米金催化鲁米诺化学发光体系测定甲巯咪唑

在碱性介质中,甲巯咪唑能强烈增敏纳米金-鲁米诺-硝酸银化学发光体系产生较强的化学发光信号,据此建立了一种流动注射化学发光测定甲巯咪唑的新方法。在优化实验条件下,该方法对甲巯咪唑的检测线性范围为1.0×10-9~1.0×10-8、1.0×10-8~1.0×10-7、1.0×10-7~1.0×10-6g/mL,检出限(S/N=3)为3.0×10-10g/mL,相对标准偏差为1.2%(n=11,ρ=1.0×10-8g/mL)。将该法用于药物中甲巯咪唑含量的测定,结果满意。同时,采用化学发光光谱表征技术对该体系的化学发光反应机理进行了初步探讨。     

New Supramolecular Drug Carriers: The Study of Organogel Conjugated Gold Nanoparticles

An aqueous solution of sodium citrate stabilized gold nanoparticles (AuNP) in the presence of N-lauroyl-L-alanine (C₁₂ALA) forms a stable gel. The structure of the gel and the distribution profile of AuNP in it were analyzed. Will nanoparticles separated from each other with sodium citrate behave in the same way in solution and trapped in the gel matrix? Will the spatial limitation of solvent molecules aggregate nanoparticles and destroy their homogeneity? These questions are very important from the point of view of the use of gold nanoparticles, trapped in the gel structure as carriers of drugs in the slow-release process. The lack of homogeneity of this distribution will have a major impact on the rate of release of the appropriate amount of therapeutic drug from the matrix. In this work, we attempt to answer these questions. The performed biological assays revealed that both C₁₂ALA and C₁₂ALA-AuNP show an excellent level of biological neutrality. They might be used as a transporting medium for a drug delivery without affecting the drug’s activity.