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Douglas-Green SA, Aleman JA, Hammond PT. Electrophoresis-Based Approach for Characterizing Dendrimer-Protein Interactions: A Proof-of-Concept Study. ACS Biomater Sci Eng 2024. [PMID: 38753577 DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.3c01579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2024]
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Improving the clinical translation of nanomedicine requires better knowledge about how nanoparticles interact with biological environments. As researchers are recognizing the importance of understanding the protein corona and characterizing how nanocarriers respond in biological systems, new tools and techniques are needed to analyze nanocarrier-protein interactions, especially for smaller size (<10 nm) nanoparticles like polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimers. Here, we developed a streamlined, semiquantitative approach to assess dendrimer-protein interactions using a nondenaturing electrophoresis technique combined with mass spectrometry. With this protocol, we detect fluorescently tagged dendrimers and proteins simultaneously, enabling us to analyze when dendrimers migrate with proteins. We found that PAMAM dendrimers mostly interact with complement proteins, particularly C3 and C4a, which aligns with previously published data, verifying that our approach can be used to isolate and identify dendrimer-protein interactions.
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- Simone A Douglas-Green
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
- Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 500 Main St, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
- Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 500 Main St, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, United States
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Vivas CV, Duarte EL, Barreto YB, deOliveira CLP, Toma SH, Santos JJ, Araki K, Alencar AM, Bloise AC. Interactions Between Silver Nanoparticles and Culture Medium Biomolecules with Dose and Time Dependencies. J Fluoresc 2024:10.1007/s10895-023-03564-x. [PMID: 38183590 DOI: 10.1007/s10895-023-03564-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2023] [Accepted: 12/20/2023] [Indexed: 01/08/2024]
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The interaction between silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) and molecules producing coronas plays a key role in cytotoxicity mechanisms. Once adsorbed coronas determine the destiny of nanomaterials in vivo, their effective deployment in the biomedical field requires a comprehensive understanding of the dynamic interactions of biomolecules with nanoparticles. In this work, we characterized 40 nm AgNPs in three different nutritional cell media at different molar concentrations and incubation times to study the binding mechanism of molecules on surface nanoparticles. In addition, their cytotoxic effects have been studied in three cell lineages used as tissue regeneration models: FN1, HUV-EC-C, RAW 264.7. According to the data, when biomolecules from DMEM medium were in contact with AgNPs, agglomeration and precipitation occurred. However, FBS medium proteins indicated the formation of coronas over the nanoparticles. Nonetheless, little adsorption of molecules around the nanoparticles was observed when compared to DMEM supplemented with 10% FBS. These findings indicate that when nanoparticles and bioproteins from supplemented media interact, inorganic salts from DMEM contribute to produce large bio-coronas, the size of which varies with the concentration and time. The static quenching mechanism was shown to be responsible for the fluorescence quenching of the bioprotein aggregates on the AgNPs surface. The calculated bioprotein-nanoparticle surface binding constants were on the order of 105 M-1 at 37 °C, with hydrophobic interactions driven by enthalpy and entropy playing a role, as confirmed by thermodynamic analysis. Cytotoxicity data showed a systematic degrowth in the viable cell population as the number of nanoparticles increased and the diameter of coronas decreased. Cytotoxic intervals associated with half decrease of cell population were established for AgNPs molar concentration of 75 µM for 24 h and 50 µM for 48 h. In summary, through the cytotoxicity mechanism of bio-coronas we are able to manipulate cells' expansion rates to promote specific processes, such inflammatory mechanisms, at different time instants.
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- Instituto de Quimica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Dominguez J, Holmes SK, Bartone RD, Tisch LJ, Tighe RM, Bonner JC, Payne CK. House Dust Mite Extract Forms a Der p 2 Corona on Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Implications for Allergic Airway Disease. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE. NANO 2024; 11:324-335. [PMID: 38577066 PMCID: PMC10990074 DOI: 10.1039/d3en00666b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/06/2024]
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Multi-walled carbons nanotubes (MWCNTs) are used in materials for the construction, automotive, and aerospace industries. Workers and consumers are exposed to these materials via inhalation. Existing recommended exposure limits are based on MWCNT exposures that do not take into account more realistic co-exposures. Our goal was to understand how a common allergen, house dust mites, interacts with pristine MWCNTs and lung fluid proteins. We used gel electrophoresis, western blotting, and proteomics to characterize the composition of the allergen corona formed from house dust mite extract on the surface of MWCNTs. We found that the corona is dominated by der p 2, a protein associated with human allergic responses to house dust mites. Der p 2 remains adsorbed on the surface of the MWCNTs following subsequent exposures to lung fluid proteins. The high concentration of der p 2, localized on surface of MWCNTs, has important implications for house dust mite-induced allergies and asthma. This research provides a detailed characterization of the complex house dust mite-lung fluid protein coronas for future cellular and in vivo studies. These studies will help to address the molecular and biochemical mechanisms underlying the exacerbation of allergic lung disease by nanomaterials.
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- Judith Dominguez
- Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA 27708
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- Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA 27708
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- Toxicology Program, Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA 27695
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- Toxicology Program, Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA 27695
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- Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA 27710
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- Toxicology Program, Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA 27695
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- Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA 27708
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Liao R, Zhuang Y, Li X, Chen K, Wang X, Feng C, Yin G, Zhu X, Lin J, Zhang X. Unveiling protein corona composition: predicting with resampling embedding and machine learning. Regen Biomater 2023; 11:rbad082. [PMID: 38213739 PMCID: PMC10781662 DOI: 10.1093/rb/rbad082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2023] [Revised: 08/25/2023] [Accepted: 09/02/2023] [Indexed: 01/13/2024] Open
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Biomaterials with surface nanostructures effectively enhance protein secretion and stimulate tissue regeneration. When nanoparticles (NPs) enter the living system, they quickly interact with proteins in the body fluid, forming the protein corona (PC). The accurate prediction of the PC composition is critical for analyzing the osteoinductivity of biomaterials and guiding the reverse design of NPs. However, achieving accurate predictions remains a significant challenge. Although several machine learning (ML) models like Random Forest (RF) have been used for PC prediction, they often fail to consider the extreme values in the abundance region of PC absorption and struggle to improve accuracy due to the imbalanced data distribution. In this study, resampling embedding was introduced to resolve the issue of imbalanced distribution in PC data. Various ML models were evaluated, and RF model was finally used for prediction, and good correlation coefficient (R2) and root-mean-square deviation (RMSE) values were obtained. Our ablation experiments demonstrated that the proposed method achieved an R2 of 0.68, indicating an improvement of approximately 10%, and an RMSE of 0.90, representing a reduction of approximately 10%. Furthermore, through the verification of label-free quantification of four NPs: hydroxyapatite (HA), titanium dioxide (TiO2), silicon dioxide (SiO2) and silver (Ag), and we achieved a prediction performance with an R2 value >0.70 using Random Oversampling. Additionally, the feature analysis revealed that the composition of the PC is most significantly influenced by the incubation plasma concentration, PDI and surface modification.
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- Rong Liao
- College of Biomedical Engineering, National Engineering Research Centre for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China
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- College of Biomedical Engineering, National Engineering Research Centre for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China
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- College of Biomedical Engineering, National Engineering Research Centre for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China
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- College of Biomedical Engineering, National Engineering Research Centre for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China
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- College of Biomedical Engineering, National Engineering Research Centre for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China
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- College of Biomedical Engineering, National Engineering Research Centre for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China
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- College of Biomedical Engineering, National Engineering Research Centre for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China
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- College of Biomedical Engineering, National Engineering Research Centre for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China
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- College of Biomedical Engineering, National Engineering Research Centre for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China
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- College of Biomedical Engineering, National Engineering Research Centre for Biomaterials, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China
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Epanchintseva AV, Poletaeva JE, Bakhno IA, Belov VV, Grigor’eva AE, Baranova SV, Ryabchikova EI, Dovydenko IS. Fixation and Visualization of Full Protein Corona on Lipid Surface of Composite Nanoconstruction. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 13:3094. [PMID: 38132992 PMCID: PMC10745710 DOI: 10.3390/nano13243094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2023] [Revised: 12/03/2023] [Accepted: 12/04/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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Spontaneous sorption of proteins on the nanoparticles' surface leads to the fact that nanoparticles in biological media are always enveloped by a layer of proteins-the protein corona. Corona proteins affect the properties of nanoparticles and their behavior in a biological environment. In this regard, knowledge about the composition of the corona is a necessary element for the development of nanomedicine. Because proteins have different sorption efficacy, isolating particles with a full corona and characterizing the full corona is challenging. In this study, we propose a photo-activated cross-linker for full protein corona fixation. We believe that the application of our proposed approach will make it possible to capture and visualize the full corona on nanoparticles coated with a lipid shell.
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia; (A.V.E.); (J.E.P.); (I.A.B.); (V.V.B.); (A.E.G.); (S.V.B.)
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- Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine SB RAS, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia; (A.V.E.); (J.E.P.); (I.A.B.); (V.V.B.); (A.E.G.); (S.V.B.)
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Putri AD, Hsu MJ, Han CL, Chao FC, Hsu CH, Lorenz CD, Hsieh CM. Differential cellular responses to FDA-approved nanomedicines: an exploration of albumin-based nanocarriers and liposomes in protein corona formation. NANOSCALE 2023; 15:17825-17838. [PMID: 37850423 DOI: 10.1039/d3nr04862d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2023]
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Albumin nanoparticles (NPs) and PEGylated liposomes have garnered tremendous interest as therapeutic drug carriers due to their unique physicochemical properties. These unique properties also have significant effects on the composition and structure of the protein corona formed around these NPs in a biological environment. Herein, protein corona formation on albumin NPs and liposomes was simultaneously evaluated through in vitro and simulation studies. The sizes of both types of NPs increased with more negatively charged interfaces upon being introduced into fetal bovine serum. Gel electrophoresis and label-free quantitative proteomics were performed to identify proteins recruited to the hard corona, and fewer proteins were found in albumin NPs than in liposomes, which is in accordance with isothermal titration calorimetry. The cellular uptake efficiency of the two NPs significantly differed in different serum concentrations, which was further scrutinized by loading an anticancer compound into albumin NPs. The presence of the hard protein corona increased the cellular uptake of albumin NPs in comparison with liposomes. In our simulation study, a specific receptor present in the membrane was greatly attracted to the albumin-apolipoprotein E complex. Overall, this study not only evaluated protein corona formation on albumin NPs, but also made promising advancements toward albumin- and liposome-based therapeutic systems.
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- Athika Darumas Putri
- School of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, 11031, Taiwan.
- Semarang College of Pharmaceutical Sciences (STIFAR), Semarang City, 50192, Indonesia
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- Department of Pharmacology, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, 11031, Taiwan
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- Master Program in Clinical Genomics and Proteomics, College of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, 11031, Taiwan
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS UMR 8612, Institut Galien Paris-Saclay, Châtenay-Malabry, France
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- Department of Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan
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- Biological Physics and Soft Matter Group, Department of Physics, King's College London, London WC2R 2LS, UK
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- School of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, 11031, Taiwan.
- Ph.D. Program in Drug Discovery and Development Industry, College of Pharmacy, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, 11031, Taiwan
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Poulsen KM, Albright MC, Niemuth NJ, Tighe RM, Payne CK. Interaction of TiO 2 nanoparticles with lung fluid proteins and the resulting macrophage inflammatory response. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE. NANO 2023; 10:2427-2436. [PMID: 38009084 PMCID: PMC10669912 DOI: 10.1039/d3en00179b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2023]
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Inhalation is a major exposure route to nanoparticles. Following inhalation, nanoparticles first interact with the lung lining fluid, a complex mixture of proteins, lipids, and mucins. We measure the concentration and composition of lung fluid proteins adsorbed on the surface of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles. Using proteomics, we find that lung fluid results in a unique protein corona on the surface of the TiO2 nanoparticles. We then measure the expression of three cytokines (interleukin 6 (IL-6), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), and macrophage inflammatory protein 2 (MIP-2)) associated with lung inflammation. We find that the corona formed from lung fluid leads to elevated expression of these cytokines in comparison to bare TiO2 nanoparticles or coronas formed from serum or albumin. These experiments show that understanding the concentration and composition of the protein corona is essential for understanding the pulmonary response associated with human exposure to nanoparticles.
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- Karsten M Poulsen
- Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA 27705
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- Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA 27710
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- Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA 27705
- Present address: Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599
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- Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA 27710
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- Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA 27705
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Portilla Y, Mulens-Arias V, Daviu N, Paradela A, Pérez-Yagüe S, Barber DF. Interaction of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles with Macrophages Is Influenced Distinctly by "Self" and "Non-Self" Biological Identities. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023. [PMID: 37478159 PMCID: PMC10401511 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c05555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/23/2023]
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Upon contact with biological fluids like serum, a protein corona (PC) complex forms on iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) in physiological environments and the proteins it contains influence how IONPs act in biological systems. Although the biological identity of PC-IONP complexes has often been studied in vitro and in vivo, there have been inconsistent results due to the differences in the animal of origin, the type of biological fluid, and the physicochemical properties of the IONPs. Here, we identified differences in the PC composition when it was derived from the sera of three species (bovine, murine, or human) and deposited on IONPs with similar core diameters but with different coatings [dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA), dextran (DEX), or 3-aminopropyl triethoxysilane (APS)], and we assessed how these differences influenced their effects on macrophages. We performed a comparative proteomic analysis to identify common proteins from the three sera that adsorb to each IONP coating and the 10 most strongly represented proteins in PCs. We demonstrated that the PC composition is dependent on the origin of the serum rather than the nature of the coating. The PC composition critically affects the interaction of IONPs with macrophages in self- or non-self identity models, influencing the activation and polarization of macrophages. However, such effects were more consistent for DMSA-IONPs. As such, a self biological identity of IONPs promotes the activation and M2 polarization of murine macrophages, while a non-self biological identity favors M1 polarization, producing larger quantities of ROS. In a human context, we observed the opposite effect, whereby a self biological identity of DMSA-IONPs promotes a mixed M1/M2 polarization with an increase in ROS production. Conversely, a non-self biological identity of IONPs provides nanoparticles with a stealthy character as no clear effects on human macrophages were evident. Thus, the biological identity of IONPs profoundly affects their interaction with macrophages, ultimately defining their biological impact on the immune system.
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- Yadileiny Portilla
- Department of Immunology and Oncology and Nanobiomedicine Initiative, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Darwin 3, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Immunology and Oncology and Nanobiomedicine Initiative, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Darwin 3, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Immunology and Oncology and Nanobiomedicine Initiative, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Darwin 3, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Proteomics Facility, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Darwin 3, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Immunology and Oncology and Nanobiomedicine Initiative, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Darwin 3, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Immunology and Oncology and Nanobiomedicine Initiative, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Darwin 3, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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