The routine method for preparation of silica core-shell nanoparticles (NPs) is to carry out nucleation and shell coating through the hydrolysis of silane in water in oil (W/O) microemulsion to form three-dimensional netted silica shell. We found that electrostatic interaction of the core ma- terials with shell materials would determine whether the stable core-shell silica NPs formed or not. The traditional important factors such as molecular weight of core materials or the thickness of the shell have no obvious relationship with it. And the stability of the core-shell silica NPs can be im- proved after changing the electric charge polarity by regu- lating the experiment condition of relevant materials if some core materials cannot be doped inside to form the stable core-shell silica NPs based on the traditional method, which provided experimental and theoretic foundation for prepara- tion and application of the core-shell silica NPs.
HE Xiaoxiao WANG Kemin TAN Weihong CHEN Jiyun DUAN Jinghua YUAN Yin LIN Xia
The specific interaction between angiogenin and aptamer has been investigated by using AFM. The specificity of the interaction is revealed by comparing the binding probability of aptamer to other ele- ments in a series of control experiments. The results have shown that there is specific interaction force between angiogenin and aptamer. Moreover, the single molecular pull-off force between angiogenin and aptamer has also been determined using the Poisson statistical method to be 133.7±11.7 pN. These findings obtained are helpful to the better revelation of recognition mechanism between angiogenin and aptamer, which provided basis for further understanding the inhibition of the aptamer to angio- genic activity.
HE XiaoXiao JIN Rong YANG Liu WANG KeMin LI Wei TAN WeiHong LI HuiMin
The bioeffects of silica nanoparticles (SiNP), phosphorylate-terminated nanoparticles (PO4- NP) and amino-terminated nanoparticles (NH2NP) on HaCaT cell line have been studied in this paper. The effects of the three kinds of functionalized silica nanoparticles on adherence, proliferation and cycle of HaCaT cells have been investigated. And the cel- lular uptake of the three kinds of functionalized silica nanoparticles by HaCaT cells has also been exam- ined. Results indicated that the bioeffects of the three kinds of functionalized nanoparticles on HaCaT cells were concentration-dependent. And the three kinds of functionalized nanoparticles all exhibited well bio- compatibility if the concentration was below 0.2 μg/μL. While the cytotoxicities of the three kinds of function- alized nanoparticles on HaCaT cells would increase with the increasing of nanoparticles concentration, and the following order was observed: NH2NP > SiNP > PO4NP. In addition, the quantity and rapidity of cellular uptake of nanoparticles by HaCaT cells were diverse due to the different functional groups. Under the same conditions, NH2NP was most and fast internalized by HaCaT cells, followed by SiNP, and PO4NP was the least and slowest. These results provided theoretical foundation for the safe applica- tion and further modification of silica nanoparticles, which could broaden the application of silica nano- particles in biomedicine.
HE Xiaoxiao LIU Fang WANG Kemin GE Jia QIN Dilan GONG Ping TAN Weihong
