Key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Solids, Ministry of Education; College of Chemistry and Materials Science , Anhui Normal University , Wuhu 241000 , China.
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2018 May 16;10(19):16291-16298. doi: 10.1021/acsami.8b03034. Epub 2018 May 1.
The exploration of fluorescent tools with distinguished optical properties and favorable biocompatibility is significant for biosensing and bioimaging. We herein present a host-guest interactions aided strategy for fabricating fluorescent silica nanoparticles (FSNPs), which is enabled by cyclodextrin (CD) supermolecules. Compared with conventional FSNPs, the modified products (are named as fluorophore@CD@SNPs) possess several advantages. First, the incorporated fluorophores can thoroughly get rid of their intrinsic aggregation due to CD's inclusion effect, and the fluorescence intensity of the obtained fluorophore@CD@SNPs can enhance 48-67%. The fluorophores can then be well-fixed by the host CD molecules. As a result, the leak rates of the incorporated fluorophores are only 15-17%, which is about 3 times lower than that of conventional ones (42-48%). Notably, the as-prepared fluorophore@CD@SNPs show observable less cytotoxicity as compared with their conventional counterparts, probably due to the substantially decreased leakage of the incorporated fluorophores. Because of prominent properties and versatile fabrication, the proposed fluorophore@CD@SNPs not only possess better performances for cell-imaging but are competent for ratiometric sensing of pH value at living cell using (indicator-reference) integrative silica NPs.
荧光工具的探索具有显著的光学特性和良好的生物相容性,对于生物传感和生物成像具有重要意义。本文提出了一种基于主体-客体相互作用的策略来制备荧光二氧化硅纳米颗粒(FSNPs),该策略由环糊精(CD)超分子辅助。与传统的 FSNPs 相比,修饰后的产物(命名为荧光团@CD@SNP)具有几个优点。首先,由于 CD 的包合作用,掺入的荧光团可以彻底消除其固有聚集,并且所得荧光团@CD@SNP 的荧光强度可以增强 48-67%。然后,荧光团可以被主体 CD 分子很好地固定。因此,掺入的荧光团的泄漏率仅为 15-17%,比传统的荧光团(42-48%)低约 3 倍。值得注意的是,与传统的荧光团相比,所制备的荧光团@CD@SNP 表现出明显较低的细胞毒性,这可能是由于掺入的荧光团的泄漏量大大减少。由于其突出的性能和多功能的制备方法,所提出的荧光团@CD@SNP 不仅具有更好的细胞成像性能,而且还能够使用(指示剂-参考)整合硅 NPs 对活细胞的 pH 值进行比率感应。