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Fabrication of Periodic Gold Nanocup Arrays Using Colloidal Lithography
Published on: September 2, 2017
Self-assembled CpG oligodeoxynucleotides conjugated hollow gold nanospheres to enhance cancer-associated
Jing Luo1, Yang Cheng1, Xiao-Yan He2
1Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion & New Carbon Materials of Hubei Province, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, PR China.
Abstract:
To realize efficiently cellular uptake and enhance the immunostimulation, thiolated cytosine-phosphate-guanine (CpG) oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs) were self-assembled on hollow gold nanospheres (HGNs) to form CpG-HGNs. The cellular uptake of CpG-HGNs in immune cells was studied in RAW 264.7 cells. Due to the enhanced delivery efficiency, CpG-HGNs exhibited a higher immune stimulatory activity compared with CpG ODNs, resulting in a dramatically enhanced secretion of proinflammatory cytokines. In addition, CpG-HGNs showed low cytotoxicity in RAW 264.7 cells. CpG-HGNs could potentially realize synergistic photothermal therapy and immunotherapy in vivo.
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