Fabrication of mesoporous silica nanoparticles for targeted delivery of sunitinib to ovarian cancer cells

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Introduction: Mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNPs) are considered innovative multifunctional structures for targeted drug delivery owing to their outstanding physicochemical characteristics.

Methods: MSNPs were fabricated using the sol-gel method, and polyethylene glycol-600 (PEG600) was used for MSNPs modification. Subsequently, sunitinib (SUN) was loaded into the MSNPs, MSNP-PEG and MSNP-PEG/SUN were grafted with mucin 16 (MUC16) aptamers. The nanosystems (NSs) were characterized using FT-IR, TEM, SEM, DLS, XRD, BJH, and BET. Furthermore, the biological impacts of MSNPs were evaluated on the ovarian cancer cells by MTT assay and flow cytometry analysis.

Results: The results revealed that the MSNPs have a spherical shape with an average dimension, pore size, and surface area of 56.10 nm, 2.488 nm, and 148.08 m2g-1, respectively. The cell viability results showed higher toxicity of targeted MSNPs in MUC16 overexpressing OVCAR-3 cells as compared to the SK-OV-3 cells; that was further confirmed by the cellular uptake results. The cell cycle analysis exhibited that the induction of sub-G1 phase arrest mostly occurred in MSNP-PEG/SUN-MUC16 treated OVCAR-3 cells and MSNP-PEG/SUN treated SK-OV-3 cells. DAPI staining showed apoptosis induction upon exposure to targeted MSNP in MUC16 positive OVCAR-3 cells.

Conclusion: According to our results, the engineered NSs could be considered an effective multifunctional targeted drug delivery platform for the mucin 16 overexpressing cells.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:13

Enthalten in:

BioImpacts : BI - 13(2023), 3 vom: 30., Seite 255-267

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Torabi, Mitra [VerfasserIn]
Aghanejad, Ayuob [VerfasserIn]
Savadi, Pouria [VerfasserIn]
Barzegari, Abolfazl [VerfasserIn]
Omidi, Yadollah [VerfasserIn]
Barar, Jaleh [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Journal Article
Mesoporous silica nanoparticles
Mucin 16 aptamer
Ovarian cancer
Sunitinib
Targeted drug delivery

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Date Revised 18.07.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.34172/bi.2023.25298

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM359324703