title: AMP-Conjugated Quantum Dots: Low Immunotoxicity Both In Vitro and In Vivo.
abstract: Quantum dots (QDs) are engineered nanoparticles that possess special optical and electronic properties and have shown great promise for future biomedical applications. In this work, adenosine 5'-monophosphate (AMP), a small biocompatible molecular, was conjugated to organic QDs to produce hydrophilic AMP-QDs. Using macrophage J774A.1 as the cell model, AMP-QDs exhibited both prior imaging property and low toxicity, and more importantly, triggered limited innate immune responses in macrophage, indicating low immunotoxicity in vitro. Using BALB/c mice as the animal model, AMP-QDs were found to be detained in immune organs but did not evoke robust inflammation responses or obvious histopathological abnormalities, which reveals low immunotoxicity in vivo. This work suggests that AMP is an excellent surface ligand with low immunotoxicity, and potentially used in surface modification for more extensive nanoparticles.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China.
authors.forename: Tongcheng
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Dai
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China.
authors.forename: Na
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200093, China.
authors.forename: Lu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China. qinliu@ecust.edu.cn.|Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China. qinliu@ecust.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Qin
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, 200237, China.|Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center for Biomanufacturing Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China.
authors.forename: Yuanxing
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
keywords: AMP; Immunotoxicity; In vivo; Quantum dots