The use of DNA-based therapeutics requires efficient delivery systems to transport the DNA to their place of action within the cell. To accomplish this, we investigated multiwalled carbon nanotubes (pristine MWCNT, p-MWCNT) functionalized with hydroxyl groups via 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition. In this way, we have obtained MWCNT-f-OH with improved stability in aqueous dispersions which is an advantageous property for their use in cellular environments. Afterwards, a carrier strand oligodeoxynucleotide (CS-ODN) was adsorbed to MWCNT-f-OH followed by hybridization with a therapeutic antisense oligodeoxynucleotide (AS-ODN). The amount of adsorbed CS-ODN, as well as the complementary AS-ODN and a non-complementary oligodeoxynucleotide (NS-ODN) as reference, was directly measured by radionuclide labeling of ODNs. We show that subsequent release of AS-ODNs and NS-ODNs was possible for MWCNT-f-OH above the melting temperature of AS-ODNs at 80 °C and under physiological conditions at different pH values at 37 °C. We also show a very low influence of p-MWCNT and MWCNT-f-OH on the cell viability of the bladder carcinoma (BCa) cell line EJ28 and that both MWCNT types were internalized by EJ28. Therefore, MWCNT-f-OH represents a promising carrier able to transport and release AS-ODNs inside cells.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:28435 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Kaufmann, Anika, Kunhardt, David, Cirillo, Giuseppe, Hampel, Silke, Schwenzer, Bernd |
| Contributors | Royal Society of Chemistry |
| Publisher | Royal Chemistry |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Source | Journal of materials chemistry B, 2014,2, 7000-7008, ISSN: 2050-7518 |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 10.1039/c4tb00915k |
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