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We present the synthesis of a silver nanoparticle (AgNP) based drug-delivery system that achieves the simultaneous intracellular delivery of doxorubicin (Dox) and alendronate (Ald) and improves the anticancer therapeutic indices of both drugs. Water, under microwave irradiation, was used as the sole reducing agent in the size-controlled, bisphosphonate-mediated synthesis of stabilized AgNPs. AgNPs were coated with the bisphosphonate Ald, which templated nanoparticle formation and served as a site for drug attachment. The unreacted primary ammonium group of Ald remained free and was subsequently functionalized with either Rhodamine B (RhB), through amide formation, or Dox, through imine formation. The RhB-conjugated NPs (RhB-Ald@AgNPs) were studied in HeLa cell culture. Experiments involving the selective inhibition of cell membrane receptors were monitored by confocal fluorescence microscopy and established that macropinocytosis and clathrin-mediated endocytosis were the main mechanisms of cellular uptake. The imine linker of the Dox-modified nanoparticles (Dox-Ald@AgNPs) was exploited for acid-mediated intracellular release of Dox. We found that Dox-Ald@AgNPs had significantly greater anti-cancer activity in vitro than either Ald or Dox alone. Palbociclib nmr Ald@AgNPs can accommodate the attachment of other drugs as well as targeting agents and therefore constitute a general platform for drug delivery.The use of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) microparticles is becoming more and more attractive in many fields especially in biomedical applications in which the fine tuning of the size, morphology and crystalline form of the CaCO3 particles is crucial. Although some structuring compounds, like hyaluronic acid, give satisfying results, the control of the particle structure still has to be improved. To this end, we evaluated the CaCO3 structuring capacity of novel well-defined double hydrophilic block copolymers composed of poly(ethylene oxide) and a polyphosphoester segment with an affinity for calcium like poly(phosphotriester)s bearing pendent carboxylic acids or poly(phosphodiester)s with a negatively charged oxygen atom on each repeating monomer unit. These copolymers were synthesized by a combination of organocatalyzed ring opening polymerization, thiol-yne click chemistry and protection/deprotection methods. The formulation of CaCO3 particles was then performed in the presence of these block copolymers (i) by the classical chemical pathway involving CaCl2 and Na2CO3 and (ii) by a process based on supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) technology in which CO3 2- ions are generated in aqueous media and react with Ca2+ ions. Porous CaCO3 microspheres composed of vaterite nanocrystals were obtained. Moreover, a clear dependence of the particle size on the structure of the templating agent was emphasized. In this work, we show that the use of the supercritical process and the substitution of hyaluronic acid for a carboxylic acid containing copolymer decreases the size of the CaCO3 particles by a factor of 6 (∼1.5 μm) while preventing their aggregation.Tetra-imidazole-appended p-phenylene-Cu(ii) doped nanofibrous membranes (IP-Cu-NMs) as portable chemoprobes were prepared using the electrospinning method. Fluorescence changes were observed upon dropping amino acids and proteins containing histidine residues onto the surface. IP-Cu-NMs prepared with 1.0 equivalent of Cu(ii) showed non-emissive properties, indicating that Cu(ii) induced the quenching with an aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ) effect. The fluorescence intensity of IP-Cu-NMs was enhanced approximately 25-fold upon dropping histidine onto the film, which is a "turn-on" system. In contrast, no significant fluorescence intensities were observed upon dropping other amino acids, such as valine, serine, phenylalanine, alanine, cysteine, lysine, leucine, asparagine, glutamic acid, glycine, methionine and arginine. IP-Cu-NMs achieved a low detection limit of 6.24 ppb observed by the fluorescence change. The results indicate that IP-Cu-NMs could be used to selectively detect histidine. More interestingly, the fluorescence of IP-Cu-NMs exhibited a strong emission with "turn-on" when proteins containing different numbers of His were dropped onto IP-Cu-NMs, and the intensity was dependent on the number of His residues in the protein. The enhanced fluorescence of IP-Cu-NMs with His could be recovered by treatment with Cu(ii) solution, suggesting the fluorescence reversibility of IP-Cu-NMs. Furthermore, this advanced convenient method was found to be valid up to 80% with excellent linearity for His detection over the range of 0-10 ppm in urine as a biological sample.It is still a challenge to obtain two-photon excited fluorescent bioimaging probes with intense emission, high photo-stability and low cytotoxicity. In the present work, four Zn(ii)-coordinated complexes (1-4) constructed from two novel D-A and D-π-A ligands (L1 and L2) are investigated both experimentally and theoretically, aiming to explore efficient two-photon probes for bioimaging. Molecular geometry optimization used for theoretical calculations is achieved using the crystallographic data. Notably, the results indicate that complexes 1 and 2 display enhanced two-photon absorption (2PA) cross sections compared to their corresponding D-A ligand (L1). Furthermore, it was found that complex 1 has the advantages of moderate 2PA cross section in the near-infrared region, longer fluorescence lifetime, higher quantum yield, good biocompatibility and enhanced two-photon excited fluorescence. Therefore, complex 1 is evaluated as a bioimaging probe for in vitro imaging of HepG2 cells, in which it is observed under a two-photon scanning microscope that complex 1 exhibits effective co-staining with endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and nuclear membrane; as well as for in vivo imaging of zebrafish larva, in which it is observed that complex 1 exhibits specificity in the intestinal system.Silica-polymer antimicrobial composites with a core-shell nanostructure are often prepared through a polymeric process. However, it is difficult to control the polymerization degree of the polymers to give a uniform size distribution. In this article, we present a facile approach to produce antimicrobial silica@polyacrylamide (SiO2@PAM) core-shell nanoparticles, which were synthesized via an electrostatic self-assembly method using acyclic N-halamine polymeric polyacrylamide. The morphologies and structures of these as-prepared nanoparticles were characterized by different techniques. And their antibacterial performance against both Gram-positive bacteria and Gram-negative bacteria was also evaluated. Based on the preliminary results, these core-shell nanosized spheres were made of an outer polymer shell which decorated the inner SiO2 core, showing the encapsulation of silica nanoparticles with PAM polymers. After chlorination, the resultant nanosized particles displayed a powerful and stable bactericidal capability toward both of the two model bacterial species. Bactericidal assessment further suggested a coordinated effect of the well-known antibacterial performance of N-halamines and the flocculation of PAM on the antibacterial behavior. The in vitro cytotoxicity of the prepared nanoparticles with varying concentrations was studied using mouse fibroblast cells (L929). The CCK-8 assay revealed that the SiO2@PAM composites possessed a non-cytotoxic and favorable response to the seeded cells in vitro. These results indicate the suitability of the SiO2@PAM composite particles for controlling biocidal activity, demonstrating their potential applications in deactivating bacteria or even disease control.An inverse replication method based on porous CaCO3 templates was developed to fabricate porous magnetic polymer microspheres (PMMSs) composed of biocompatible polydopamine and magnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles. The preparation procedure involved the synthesis of Fe3O4@CaCO3 templates, infiltration and spontaneous polymerization of dopamine in template pores and finally the mild removal of templates. The particle size, the surface morphology and the pore structure (e.g., average pore size, pore volume, surface area, etc.) of porous PMMSs were facilely tailored by altering the templates. The as-prepared polydopamine microspheres PMMSs were applied to covalently immobilize YADH for catalyzing the conversion of formaldehyde to methanol. In comparison to the enzyme-conjugated PDA-coated Fe3O4 nanoparticles (PMNPs), the immobilized enzyme on porous PMMSs exhibited remarkably enhanced activity (specific activity 162.3 U mg-1 enzyme vs. 97.6 U mg-1 enzyme; methanol yield 95.5% vs. 57.1%; initial reaction rate 0.15% s-1vs. 0.08% s-1), and desirable thermal/pH/recycling/storage stabilities, and particularly, easy separation from the bulk solution by an external magnetic field.The pro-inflammatory cytokine TNF-α was silenced by treating MODE-K cells with triple-shell calcium phosphate nanoparticles. These consisted of a core of calcium phosphate, followed by a shell of siRNA, then a shell of calcium phosphate to protect the siRNA from nucleases and finally a shell of poly(ethyleneimine) for colloidal stabilization and to give the particles a positive charge. First, the gene silencing efficiency was demonstrated with HeLa-eGFP cells and determined by manually counting the green fluorescent cells, by quantitative FACS analysis of the green fluorescence per cell, and by qPCR at the RNA level. Cell counting gave the highest degrees of eGFP expression, but FACS and qPCR gave more accurate data as they are not probing the cell colour (green or not green) only as yes/no property. This was transposed to the inflammatory relevant mouse cell line MODE-K that was previously stimulated with LPS to induce the expression of TNF-α. By application of the nanoparticles, the TNF-α expression was reduced almost to the original level, as shown by qPCR. Thus, calcium phosphate nanoparticles are well suited to reduce inflammatory reactions by silencing the corresponding cytokines, e.g. TNF-α.Two new uracil (U) and 5-flurouracil (5-FU) labeled ruthenium(ii)-polypyridyl based cellular imaging reagents are reported. Confocal laser scanning microscopic images with live and paraformaldehyde (PFA) fixed MCF-7 cells are examined using these two low-cytotoxic reagents. Experimental results show that these two complexes, appropriately functionalized with U (1) and 5-FU (2), have specific affinity for the lipid dense regions like the endoplasmic reticulum, cell membrane, and cytoplasmic vacuoles in live MCF-7 cells, and dye internalization in these regions happened following an endocytosis pathway. Interestingly, these two complexes are found to be localized in the nucleus of the PFA fixed cells. For fixed cells, presumably the lipid layer disruption helped in the explicit localization of the complexes 1 and 2 in the cell nucleus through specific interaction with cellular DNA. Poor and non-specific internalization of an analogous model complex 3, without having a U or 5-FU moiety, reveals the definite influence of U or 5-FU as well as the role of lipophilicity of the respective complex 1 and 2 in the cellular internalization process. Apart from these, a large Stokes shift (∼160 nm) and an appreciably long lived 3MLCT excited state (∼320 ns) in aq. buffer medium (pH 7.4) are other key features for complexes 1 and 2. Unlike the common nuclear DNA staining reagents like DAPI, these low-cytotoxic reagents are found to be highly stable towards photo-bleaching upon irradiation with 455 nm at the MLCT band for these complexes.
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