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Hyperbranched Polyglycerols as Robust Up-Conversion Nanoparticle Coating Layer for Feasible Cell Imaging
Owing to the wide spectrum of excitation wavelengths of up-conversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) by precisely regulating the percentage of doping elements, UCNPs have been emerging as bioimaging agents. The key drawback of UCNPs is their poor dispersibility in aqueous solution and it is hard to introduce...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7694285/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33158226 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym12112592 |
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author | Hao, Mingcong Wu, Tongtong Chen, Qunzhi Lian, Xueyan Wu, Haigang Shi, Bingyang |
author_facet | Hao, Mingcong Wu, Tongtong Chen, Qunzhi Lian, Xueyan Wu, Haigang Shi, Bingyang |
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description | Owing to the wide spectrum of excitation wavelengths of up-conversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) by precisely regulating the percentage of doping elements, UCNPs have been emerging as bioimaging agents. The key drawback of UCNPs is their poor dispersibility in aqueous solution and it is hard to introduce the chemical versatility of function groups. In our study, we present a robust and feasible UCNP modification approach by introducing hyperbranched polyglycerols (hbPGs) as a coating layer. When grafted by hbPGs, the solubility and biocompatibility of UCNPs are significantly improved. Moreover, we also systematically investigated and optimized the chemical modification approach of amino acids or green fluorescence protein (GFP), respectively, grafting onto hbPGs and hbPGs-g-UCNP by oxidizing the vicinal diol to be an aldehyde group, which reacts more feasibly with amino-containing functional molecules. Then, we investigated the drug-encapsulating properties of hbPGs-Arg with DOX and cell imaging of GFP-grafted hbPGs-g-UCNP, respectively. The excellent cell imaging in tumor cells indicated that hbPG-modification of UCNPs displayed potential for applications in drug delivery and disease diagnosis. |
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spelling | pubmed-76942852020-11-28 Hyperbranched Polyglycerols as Robust Up-Conversion Nanoparticle Coating Layer for Feasible Cell Imaging Hao, Mingcong Wu, Tongtong Chen, Qunzhi Lian, Xueyan Wu, Haigang Shi, Bingyang Polymers (Basel) Article Owing to the wide spectrum of excitation wavelengths of up-conversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) by precisely regulating the percentage of doping elements, UCNPs have been emerging as bioimaging agents. The key drawback of UCNPs is their poor dispersibility in aqueous solution and it is hard to introduce the chemical versatility of function groups. In our study, we present a robust and feasible UCNP modification approach by introducing hyperbranched polyglycerols (hbPGs) as a coating layer. When grafted by hbPGs, the solubility and biocompatibility of UCNPs are significantly improved. Moreover, we also systematically investigated and optimized the chemical modification approach of amino acids or green fluorescence protein (GFP), respectively, grafting onto hbPGs and hbPGs-g-UCNP by oxidizing the vicinal diol to be an aldehyde group, which reacts more feasibly with amino-containing functional molecules. Then, we investigated the drug-encapsulating properties of hbPGs-Arg with DOX and cell imaging of GFP-grafted hbPGs-g-UCNP, respectively. The excellent cell imaging in tumor cells indicated that hbPG-modification of UCNPs displayed potential for applications in drug delivery and disease diagnosis. MDPI 2020-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7694285/ /pubmed/33158226 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym12112592 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Hao, Mingcong Wu, Tongtong Chen, Qunzhi Lian, Xueyan Wu, Haigang Shi, Bingyang Hyperbranched Polyglycerols as Robust Up-Conversion Nanoparticle Coating Layer for Feasible Cell Imaging |
title | Hyperbranched Polyglycerols as Robust Up-Conversion Nanoparticle Coating Layer for Feasible Cell Imaging |
title_full | Hyperbranched Polyglycerols as Robust Up-Conversion Nanoparticle Coating Layer for Feasible Cell Imaging |
title_fullStr | Hyperbranched Polyglycerols as Robust Up-Conversion Nanoparticle Coating Layer for Feasible Cell Imaging |
title_full_unstemmed | Hyperbranched Polyglycerols as Robust Up-Conversion Nanoparticle Coating Layer for Feasible Cell Imaging |
title_short | Hyperbranched Polyglycerols as Robust Up-Conversion Nanoparticle Coating Layer for Feasible Cell Imaging |
title_sort | hyperbranched polyglycerols as robust up-conversion nanoparticle coating layer for feasible cell imaging |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7694285/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33158226 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym12112592 |
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