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Dominika Kalinowska1, Ilona Grabowska-Jadach1, Monika Liwinska1
1Chair of Medical Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology, Noakowskiego 3, 00-664 Warsaw, Poland.
Abstract:
Herein, we present the research focused on the synthesis and application of aptamer-modified gold nanoshells for photothermal therapy (PTT). NIR-absorbing hollow gold nanoshells were synthetized and conjugated with anti-MUC1 aptamer (HGNs@anti-MUC1). MUC1 (Mucin 1) is a transmembrane glycoprotein, which is overexpressed in a variety of epithelial cancers (eg. breast, lung, pancreatic). In order to evaluate the efficiency of PTT with HGNs@anti-MUC1 we used 3D cell culture model - multicellular spheroids. The selected cell culture model is considered as the best in vitro model for cancer research (similar morphology, metabolite and oxygen gradients, cellular interactions and cell growth kinetics in the spheroids are similar to the early stage of a nonvascular tumor). We conducted our research on human normal (MRC-5, MCF-10A) and tumor (A549, MCF-7) cell lines using a microfluidic system. Aptamer-modified nanoparticles were accumulated selectively in tumor cells (A549, MCF-7) and this fact contributed to the reduction of tumor spheroids viability and size. It should be underlined, that it is the first example of photothermal therapy carried out in a microsystem on multicellular spheroids.
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