The role of ganglioside GM1 in cellular internalization mechanisms of poly(amidoamine) dendrimers.
The role of ganglioside GM1 in cellular internalization mechanisms of poly(amidoamine) dendrimers.
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DOI:
10.1021/bc900029k
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发表时间:
2009-08-19
影响因子:
4.7
通讯作者:
Holl MM
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作者:
Hong S;Rattan R;Majoros IJ;Mullen DG;Peters JL;Shi X;Bielinska AU;Blanco L;Orr BG;Baker JR Jr;Holl MM
Generation 7 (G7) poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) dendrimers with amine, acetamide, and carboxylate end groups were prepared to investigate polymer/cell membrane interactions in vitro. G7 PAMAM dendrimers were used in this study because higher generation of dendrimers are more effective in permeabilization of cell plasma membranes and in the formation of nanoscale holes in supported lipid bilayers than smaller, lower generation dendrimers. Dendrimer-based conjugates were characterized by 1H NMR, UV/Vis spectroscopy, GPC, HPLC, and CE. Positively charged amine-terminated G7 dendrimers (G7-NH2) were observed to internalize into KB, Rat2 and C6 cells at a 200 nM concentration. By way of contrast, neither negatively charged G7 carboxylate-terminated dendrimers (G7-COOH) nor neutral acetamide-terminated G7 dendrimers (G7-Ac) associated with the cell plasma membrane or internalized under similar conditions. A series of in vitro experiments employing endocytic markers cholera toxin subunit B (CTB), transferrin, and GM1-pyrene were performed to further investigate mechanisms of dendrimer internalization into cells. G7-NH2 dendrimers co-localized with CTB, however, experiments with C6 cells indicated that internalization of G7-NH2 was not ganglioside GM1 dependent. The G7/CTB co-localization was thus ascribed to an artifact of direct interaction between the two species. The presence of GM1 in the membrane also had no effect upon XTT assays of cell viability or lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) assays of membrane permeability.