Transferrin receptor-1 iron-acquisition pathway - synthesis, kinetics, thermodynamics and rapid cellular internalization of a holotransferrin-maghemite nanoparticle construct.
Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2013;
1830:4254-64. [PMID:
23648413 DOI:
10.1016/j.bbagen.2013.04.035]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2013] [Revised: 04/22/2013] [Accepted: 04/25/2013] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND
Targeting nanoobjects via the iron-acquisition pathway is always reported slower than the transferrin/receptor endocytosis. Is there a remedy?
METHODS
Maghemite superparamagnetic and theragnostic nanoparticles (diameter 8.6nm) were synthesized, coated with 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (NP) and coupled to four holotransferrin (TFe2) by amide bonds (TFe2-NP). The constructs were characterized by X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, FTIR, X-ray Electron Spectroscopy, Inductively Coupled Plasma with Atomic Emission Spectrometry. The in-vitro protein/protein interaction of TFe2-NP with transferrin receptor-1 (R1) and endocytosis in HeLa cells were investigated spectrophotometrically, by fast T-jump kinetics and confocal microscopy.
RESULTS
In-vitro, R1 interacts with TFe2-NP with an overall dissociation constant KD=11nM. This interaction occurs in two steps: in the first, the C-lobe of the TFe2-NP interacts with R1 in 50μs: second-order rate constant, k1=6×10(10)M(-1)s(-1); first-order rate constant, k-1=9×10(4)s(-1); dissociation constant, K1d=1.5μM. In the second step, the protein/protein adduct undergoes a slow (10,000s) change in conformation to reach equilibrium. This mechanism is identical to that occurring with the free TFe2. In HeLa cells, TFe2-NP is internalized in the cytosol in less than 15min.
CONCLUSION
This is the first time that a nanoparticle-transferrin construct is shown to interact with R1 and is internalized in time scales similar to those of the free holotransferrin.
GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE
TFe2-NP behaves as free TFe2 and constitutes a model for rapidly targeting theragnostic devices via the main iron-acquisition pathway.
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