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- Title
Investigating Possible Enzymatic Degradation on Polymer Shells around Inorganic Nanoparticles.
- Authors
Zhu, Lin; Pelaz, Beatriz; Chakraborty, Indranath; Parak, Wolfgang J.
- Abstract
Inorganic iron oxide nanoparticle cores as model systems for inorganic nanoparticles were coated with shells of amphiphilic polymers, to which organic fluorophores were linked with different conjugation chemistries, including 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide (EDC) chemistry and two types of "click chemistry". The nanoparticle-dye conjugates were exposed to different enzymes/enzyme mixtures in order to investigate potential enzymatic degradation of the fluorophore-modified polymer shell. The release of the dyes and polymer fragments upon enzymatic digestion was quantified by using fluorescence spectroscopy. The data indicate that enzymatic cleavage of the fluorophore-modified organic surface coating around the inorganic nanoparticles in fact depends on the used conjugation chemistry, together with the types of enzymes to which the nanoparticle-dye conjugates are exposed.
- Subjects
IRON oxide nanoparticles; CLICK chemistry; SURFACE coatings; BIOCONJUGATES; POLYMERS; AMPHIPHILES
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2019, Vol 20, Issue 4, p935
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms20040935