Functional Magnetic Nanoparticles for Protein Delivery Applications: Understanding Protein-Nanoparticle interactions
Sharma, R. Ungar, D. Rimmer, Stephen Checkic, V.
Sharma, R.
Ungar, D.
Rimmer, Stephen
Checkic, V.
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2024-02-07
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© 2024 The Royal Society of Chemistry. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.
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Iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) surface functionalised with thermo-responsive polymers can encapsulate therapeutic proteins and release them upon heating with an alternating magnetic field above the lower critical solution temperature (LCST). In order to make this delivery system clinically-relevant, we prepared IONPs coated with poly-N-isopropylmethacrylamide (PNIPMAM), a polymer with LCST above human body temperature. The optimal polymer chain length and nanoparticle size to achieve LCST of ca. 45 °C were 19 kDa PNIPMAM and 16 nm IONPs. The PNIPMAM-coated IONPs could encapsulate a range of proteins which were released upon heating above LCST in the presence of a competitor protein or serum. A small amount of encapsulated protein leakage was observed below LCST. The efficiency of protein encapsulation and release was correlated with molecular weight and glycosylation state of the proteins. Magnetic heating resulted in a faster protein release as compared to conventional heating without significant temperature increase of the bulk solution.
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Sharma R, Ungar D, Dyson E et al (2024) Functional Magnetic Nanoparticles for Protein Delivery Applications: Understanding Protein-Nanoparticle interactions. Nanoscale. 16: 2466-2477.
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