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- Title
Temporal and spatial resolution of magnetosome degradation at the subcellular level in a 3D lung carcinoma model.
- Authors
Gubieda, Alicia G.; Gandarias, Lucía; Pósfai, Mihály; Pattammattel, Ajith; Fdez-Gubieda, M. Luisa; Abad-Díaz-de-Cerio, Ana; García-Prieto, Ana
- Abstract
Magnetic nanoparticles offer many exciting possibilities in biomedicine, from cell imaging to cancer treatment. One of the currently researched nanoparticles are magnetosomes, magnetite nanoparticles of high chemical purity synthesized by magnetotactic bacteria. Despite their therapeutic potential, very little is known about their degradation in human cells, and even less so of their degradation within tumours. In an effort to explore the potential of magnetosomes for cancer treatment, we have explored their degradation process in a 3D human lung carcinoma model at the subcellular level and with nanometre scale resolution. We have used state of the art hard X-ray probes (nano-XANES and nano-XRF), which allow for identification of distinct iron phases in each region of the cell. Our results reveal the progression of magnetite oxidation to maghemite within magnetosomes, and the biosynthesis of magnetite and ferrihydrite by ferritin.
- Subjects
MAGNETIC nanoparticles; MAGNETOTACTIC bacteria; HARD X-rays; MAGNETOSOMES; NANOPARTICLES
- Publication
Journal of Nanobiotechnology, 2024, Vol 22, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1477-3155
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s12951-024-02788-8