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When nanoparticles enter the blood stream or other biological fluids, they are quickly surrounded by a layer of proteins. This so-called protein corona on the nanoparticles hinders interactions between the targeting ligands on the nanoparticles and their binding partners on the cells' surface. Previous research findings in 2014, reported by Mahmoudi's Lab, have indicated that different individuals may have a personalized protein corona owing to their distinct type, severity and period of disease, heterogeneity, individual genetic variations and environmental factors. This means that the type of disease has a crucial role in the protein composition of the nanoparticle corona and that exactly the same nanoparticles may have different therapeutic and/or toxic impacts on different individuals. By combining the concepts of disease-specific protein corona and sensor array technology, researchers now have created a label-free platform for the early detection and identification of diseases. They report their findings in Nanoscale Horizons ("Disease-specific protein corona sensor arrays may have disease detection capacity"). "The possibility to measure panels of specific and selective biomarker proteins has the potential to revolutionize cancer screening, detection and monitoring," Morteza Mahmoudi, an Assistant Professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, tells Nanowerk. "Our protein corona sensor array, rather than detecting a specific biomarker, provides pattern recognition of the corona protein composition adsorbed on the liposomes. By selecting disease-specific corona profiles of different nanoparticles, using supervised classifiers, we created a unique protein pattern, which was the 'fingerprint' of each type of cancer."  Identification and discrimination of cancers using protein corona sensor arrays. 51 proteins identified as capable of distinguishing among the six groups are presented in a ‘Heat Map’ generated using an unsupervised cluster algorithm. Visual inspection of the heat map, based on the raw data of 69 important markers, demonstrates cancer-specific protein corona signature and clear clustering of six groups of samples (five groups of cancerous samples plus normal samples) and also expected similarities among five patients from each group. (Reprinted with permission by Royal Society of Chemistry)
As a feasibility study, the team focused on five distinct human cancers (lung cancer, glioblastoma, meningioma, myeloma, and pancreatic cancer) as a model disease ex vivo. The sensor array is composed of three different cross-reactive liposomes with various lipid compositions: anionic liposomes, cationic liposomes, and zwitterionic liposomes. The researchers characterized the protein corona profiles at the surface of these liposomes by nano liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry after exposure to the plasma of patients diagnosed with each of five cancers. It is obvious that by increasing the sensor array elements (i.e., nanoparticles' type and their physico-chemical characteristics), the disease detection accuracy of the protein corona sensor array technology will be enhanced. "To probe the capacity of this platform for very early detection of cancers, we used cohort plasma obtained from healthy people who were later diagnosed with lung, pancreas, and brain cancers several years after plasma collection and the outcomes revealed that the approach could identify and discriminate the cancers," Mahmoudi explains. "Our results suggest that the disease-specific protein corona sensor array will not only be instrumental in the screening, detection, and identification of diseases, but may also help identify novel protein pattern markers whose role in disease development and/or disease biology has not been appreciated so far," he concludes. By Michael Berger, NW. Posted: June 17, 2019. Sex affects how nanoparticles behave. Quadragésima terceira tese realizada no LQES. A.J. Paula, R.T. Araujo Junior, D.S.T. Martinez, E.J.P. Gamero, H.B. Nader, N.Duran, G.Z. Justo and O.L. Alves, Influence of protein corona on the transport of molecules into cells by mesoporous silica nanoparticles, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 05, 8387-8393 (2013); A.J. Paula, C. Silveira, D.S.T. Martinez, A.G.S. Filho, F.V. Romero, L. Fonseca, L.Tasic, O.L. Alves and N. Duran, Topography-driven bionano-interactions on colloidal silica nanoparticles, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 6 (5), 3437-3447 (2014); D.S.T. Martinez, A.J. Paula, L.C. Fonseca, L.A.V. Luna, C.P. Silveira, N. Durán and O.L. Alves, Monitoring the hemolytic effect of mesoporous silica nanoparticles after human blood protein corona formation, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry - Cluster Issue on Nanobioinorganic Chemistry, Vol. 27, 4595–4602 (2015); M. de Sousa, C.H.Z. Martins, L.S. Franqui, L.C. Fonseca, F.S. Delite, D.S.T. Martinez and O.L. Alves, Covalent functionalization of graphene oxide with d-mannose: evaluating the hemolytic effect and protein corona formation, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, Vol. 6, 2803-2812 (2018); L.C. Fonseca, M.M. de Araújo, A.C.M. de Moraes, D.S. da Silva, A.G. Ferreira, L.S. Franqui, D.S.T. Martinez and O.L. Alves, Nanocomposites based on graphene oxide and mesoporous silica nanoparticles: Preparation, characterization and nanobiointeractions with red blood cells and human plasma proteins |
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