Ashkarran Ali Akbar, Gharibi Hassan, Grunberger Jason W, Saei Amir Ata, Khurana Nitish, Mohammadpour Raziye, Ghandehari Hamidreza, Mahmoudi Morteza
Department of Radiology and Precision Health Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States.
Division of Physiological Chemistry I, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, SE-17 165 Stockholm, Sweden.
ACS Bio Med Chem Au. 2022 Nov 7;3(1):62-73. doi: 10.1021/acsbiomedchemau.2c00040. eCollection 2023 Feb 15.
As various nanoparticles (NPs) are increasingly being used in nanomedicine products for more effective and less toxic therapy and diagnosis of diseases, there is a growing need to understand their biological fate in different sexes. Herein, we report a proof-of-concept result of sex-specific protein corona compositions on the surface of silica NPs as a function of their size and porosity upon incubation with plasma proteins of female and male BALB/c mice. Our results demonstrate substantial differences between male and female protein corona profiles on the surface of silica nanoparticles. By comparing protein abundances between male and female protein coronas of mesoporous silica nanoparticles and Stöber silica nanoparticles of ∼100, 50, and 100 nm in diameter, respectively, we detected 17, 4, and 4 distinct proteins, respectively, that were found at significantly different concentrations for these constructs. These initial findings demonstrate that animal sex can influence protein corona formation on silica NPs as a function of the physicochemical properties. A more thorough consideration of the role of plasma sex would enable nanomedicine community to design and develop safer and more efficient diagnostic and therapeutic nanomedicine products for both sexes.
随着各种纳米颗粒(NPs)越来越多地用于纳米医学产品中,以实现更有效且毒性更低的疾病治疗和诊断,人们越来越需要了解它们在不同性别中的生物命运。在此,我们报告了一个概念验证结果,即二氧化硅纳米颗粒表面性别特异性蛋白质冠层的组成,它是二氧化硅纳米颗粒与雌性和雄性BALB/c小鼠血浆蛋白孵育后其尺寸和孔隙率的函数。我们的结果表明,二氧化硅纳米颗粒表面的雄性和雌性蛋白质冠层轮廓存在显著差异。通过分别比较直径约为100、50和100 nm的介孔二氧化硅纳米颗粒和Stöber二氧化硅纳米颗粒的雄性和雌性蛋白质冠层之间的蛋白质丰度,我们分别检测到17种、4种和4种不同的蛋白质,这些蛋白质在这些构建体中的浓度存在显著差异。这些初步发现表明,动物性别可作为物理化学性质的函数影响二氧化硅纳米颗粒上蛋白质冠层的形成。更全面地考虑血浆性别的作用将使纳米医学领域能够为两性设计和开发更安全、更高效的诊断和治疗性纳米医学产品。