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Maparu AK, Singh P, Rai B, Sharma A, Sivakumar S. PDMS nanoparticles-decorated PDMS substrate promotes adhesion, proliferation and differentiation of skin cells. J Colloid Interface Sci 2024; 659:629-638. [PMID: 38198940 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2023.12.155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2023] [Revised: 12/14/2023] [Accepted: 12/27/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024]
Abstract
Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is known to be a common substrate for various cell culture-based applications. However, native PDMS is not very conducive for cell culture and hence, surface modification via cell adhesion moieties is generally needed to make it suitable especially for long-term cell culture. To address this issue, we propose to coat PDMS nanoparticles (NPs) on the surface of PDMS film to improve adhesion, proliferation and differentiation of skin cells. The proposed modification strategy introduces necessary nanotopography without altering the surface chemical properties of PDMS. Due to resemblance in the mechanical properties of PDMS with skin, PDMS NPs can recreate the native extracellular nanoenvironment of skin on the PDMS surface and provide anchoring sites for skin cells to adhere and grow. Human keratinocytes, representing 95% of the epidermal skin cells maintained their characteristic well-spread morphology with the formation of interconnected cell-sheets on this coated PDMS surface. Moreover, our in vitro immunofluorescence studies confirmed expression of distinctive epidermal protein markers on the coated surface indicating close resemblance with the native skin epidermis. Conclusively, our findings suggest that introducing nanotopography via PDMS NPs can be an effective strategy for emulating the native cellular functions of keratinocytes on PDMS based cell culture devices.
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Affiliation(s)
- Auhin Kumar Maparu
- Physical Sciences Research Area, TCS Research, Tata Research Development and Design Centre, Tata Consultancy Services, 54-B, Hadapsar Industrial Estate, Pune, Maharashtra 411013, India; Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208016, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208016, India
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- Physical Sciences Research Area, TCS Research, Tata Research Development and Design Centre, Tata Consultancy Services, 54-B, Hadapsar Industrial Estate, Pune, Maharashtra 411013, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208016, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208016, India; Material Science Programme, Thematic Unit of Excellence on Soft Nanofabrication, Centre for Environmental Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208016, India.
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Maparu AK, Singh P, Rai B, Sharma A, Sivakumar S. A simple, robust and scalable route to prepare sub-50 nm soft PDMS nanoparticles for intracellular delivery of anticancer drugs. Nanotechnology 2022; 33:495102. [PMID: 36041371 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ac8d99] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2022] [Accepted: 08/30/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Soft nanoparticles (NPs) have recently emerged as a promising material for intracellular drug delivery. In this regard, NPs derived from polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), an FDA approved polymer can be a suitable alternative to conventional soft NPs due to their intrinsic organelle targeting ability. However, the available synthesis methods of PDMS NPs are complicated or require inorganic fillers, forming composite NPs and compromising their native softness. Herein, for the first time, we present a simple, robust and scalable strategy for preparation of virgin sub-50 nm PDMS NPs at room temperature. The NPs are soft in nature, hydrophobic and about 30 nm in size. They are stable in physiological medium for two months and biocompatible. The NPs have been successful in delivering anticancer drug doxorubicin to mitochondria and nucleus of cervical and breast cancer cells with more than four-fold decrease in IC50 value of doxorubicin as compared to its free form. Furthermore, evaluation of cytotoxicity in reactive oxygen species detection, DNA fragmentation, apoptosis-associated gene expression and tumor spheroid growth inhibition demonstrate the PDMS NPs to be an excellent candidate for delivery of anticancer drugs in mitochondria and nucleus of cancer cells.
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Affiliation(s)
- Auhin Kumar Maparu
- Physical Sciences Research Area, TCS Research, Tata Research Development and Design Centre, Tata Consultancy Services, 54-B, Hadapsar Industrial Estate, Pune, Maharashtra-411013, India
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh-208016, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh-208016, India
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- Physical Sciences Research Area, TCS Research, Tata Research Development and Design Centre, Tata Consultancy Services, 54-B, Hadapsar Industrial Estate, Pune, Maharashtra-411013, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh-208016, India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh-208016, India
- Material Science Programme, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh-208016, India
- Thematic Unit of Excellence on Soft Nanofabrication, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh-208016, India
- Centre for Environmental Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh- 208016, India
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Verma N, Badhe Y, Gupta R, Maparu AK, Rai B. Peptide mediated colorimetric detection of SARS-CoV-2 using gold nanoparticles: a molecular dynamics simulation study. J Mol Model 2022; 28:202. [PMID: 35750893 PMCID: PMC9244531 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-022-05184-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2021] [Accepted: 06/07/2022] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has necessitated the development of a rapid, simple yet selective naked-eye detection methodology that does not require any advanced instrumental techniques. In this study, we report our computational findings on the detection of SARS-CoV-2 using peptide- functionalized gold nanoparticles (GNPs). The peptide has been screened from angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor situated on the surface of the host cell membrane which interacts with the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, resulting entry of the virus into the host cell. As a result, the peptide-functionalized GNPs possess excellent affinity towards the spikes of SARS-CoV-2 and readily get aggregated once exposed to SARS-CoV-2 antigen or virus. The stability of the peptides on the surface of GNPs and their interaction with the spike protein of the virus have been investigated using coarse-grained molecular dynamic simulations. The potential of mean force calculation of spike protein confirmed strong binding between peptide and receptor-binding domain (RBD) of spike protein. Our in silico results demonstrate the potential of the peptide-functionalized GNPs in the development of simple and rapid colorimetric biosensors for clinical diagnosis.
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- Nitu Verma
- Physical Sciences Research Area, Tata Research Development and Design Centre, TCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services, 54B, Hadapsar Industrial Estate, Pune, 411013, India
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- Physical Sciences Research Area, Tata Research Development and Design Centre, TCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services, 54B, Hadapsar Industrial Estate, Pune, 411013, India
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- Physical Sciences Research Area, Tata Research Development and Design Centre, TCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services, 54B, Hadapsar Industrial Estate, Pune, 411013, India.
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- Physical Sciences Research Area, Tata Research Development and Design Centre, TCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services, 54B, Hadapsar Industrial Estate, Pune, 411013, India.
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- Physical Sciences Research Area, Tata Research Development and Design Centre, TCS Research, Tata Consultancy Services, 54B, Hadapsar Industrial Estate, Pune, 411013, India
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Maparu AK, Singh P, Rai B, Sharma A, Sivakumar S. Stable sub-100 nm PDMS nanoparticles as an intracellular drug delivery vehicle. Materials Science and Engineering: C 2021; 119:111577. [DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2020.111577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2020] [Revised: 09/15/2020] [Accepted: 09/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Dasari S, Maparu AK, Abbas Z, Kumar P, Birla H, Sivakumar S, Patra AK. Bimetallic Europium and Terbium Complexes Containing Substituted Terpyridines and the NSAID Drug Tolfenamic Acid: Structural Differences, Luminescence Properties, and Theranostic Applications. Eur J Inorg Chem 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ejic.202000443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Srikanth Dasari
- Department of Chemistry; Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; 208016 Kanpur Uttar Pradesh India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering; Center for Environmental Science and Engineering; Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; 208016 Kanpur Uttar Pradesh India
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- Department of Chemistry; Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; 208016 Kanpur Uttar Pradesh India
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- Department of Chemistry; Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; 208016 Kanpur Uttar Pradesh India
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- Department of Chemistry; Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; 208016 Kanpur Uttar Pradesh India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering; Center for Environmental Science and Engineering; Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; 208016 Kanpur Uttar Pradesh India
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- Department of Chemistry; Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; 208016 Kanpur Uttar Pradesh India
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