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  • Nanotechnology
  • Bioconjugation
  • Cellular Biology

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  • Bioconjugated nanoparticles are vital for cellular targeting and labeling.
  • Labeling performance is linked to multivalency (number of biomolecules per particle).
  • The specific effects of multivalency remain largely unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how multivalency of nanoparticle-bound riboflavin affects cellular interaction, uptake, and trafficking.
  • To synthesize and characterize riboflavin-functionalized quantum dots (QDs) with varying multivalencies.
  • To elucidate the cellular uptake mechanisms of these QDs in KB cells.

Main Methods:

  • Synthesis of riboflavin-functionalized quantum dots (QDs) with hydrodynamic sizes of 15-25 nm.
  • Creation of QDs with average riboflavin multivalencies of 15, 30, and 70 (QD(RF)15, QD(RF)30, QD(RF)70).
  • Investigation of QD uptake mechanisms in riboflavin receptor-overexpressed KB cells.

Main Results:

  • Increased multivalency from 15 to 70 enhanced cellular interaction with QDs.
  • Higher multivalency shifted the cell uptake mechanism from caveolae-clathrin to exclusive clathrin-mediated endocytosis.
  • Enhanced multivalency promoted lysosomal trafficking of the QDs.

Conclusions:

  • Nanoparticle-bound riboflavin multivalency significantly controls cellular interaction, entry/exit mechanisms, and subcellular trafficking.
  • Multivalency is a critical parameter that should be optimized for designing high-performance nanobioconjugates.
  • This study highlights the importance of surface bioconjugate density in nanomedicine applications.