The design of brain-targeted Ag2S quantum dot and its property of crossing the in vitro blood brain barrier
XU Yi1, 2, YAN Meiling2, MA Jifei3, ZHAO Fangfei2, SUN Yanhong2, WANG Lihua2, GAO Jimin1
1.School of Laboratory Medicine and Life Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325035, China; 2.CAS Key Laboratory of Interfacial Physics and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
XU Yi,YAN Meiling,MA Jifei, et al. The design of brain-targeted Ag2S quantum dot and its property of crossing the in vitro blood brain barrier[J]. JOURNAL OF WEZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY, 2020, 50(3): 206-211.
Abstract:Objective: To design the brain targeted Ag2S and Ag2S-PEG quantum dots and evaluate the property of the modified quantum dots in crossing the in vitro blood-brain barrier. Methods: Ag2S was conjugated with Angiopep-2 (Ag2S-ANG) and Ag2S-PEG was conjugated with Angiopep-2 (Ag2S-PEG-ANG) through the condensation reaction of amino and carboxyl groups mediated by EDC and NHS. The structure and size of Ag2S, Ag2S-ANG, Ag2S-PEG, Ag2S-PEG-ANG were characterized by agarose electrophoresis, dynamic light scattering transmission, electron microscope (TEM). The property of four kinds of quantum dots across the blood-brain barrier was evaluated in vitro by using the in vitro blood-brain barrier model. The cytotoxicity of four kinds of materials on U87 MG and bEnd.3 cells was observed. Results: Ag2S-ANG and Ag2S-PEG-ANG had a shorter migration distance compared with Ag2S and Ag2S-PEG in the agarose gel electrophoresis. The hydrate particle size of Ag2S-ANG and Ag2S-PEG-ANG was respectively increased compared with Ag2S and Ag2S-PEG. And their Zeta potential exhibited electropositive reinforcement. From the TEM results, we founded that the partical size of Ag2S-ANG and Ag2S-PEG-ANG was bigger than Ag2S and Ag2S-PEG (P<0.05). Ag2S, Ag2S-ANG, Ag2S-PEG, Ag2S-PEG-ANG QDs had no obvious cytotoxicity when the concentration was lower than 100 μg/mL. In vitro blood-brain barrier cell model, Ag2S-ANG, Ag2S-PEG and Ag2S-PEG-ANG quantum dots could cross the bEnd.3 cells in the upper layer, especially when the uptake of Ag2S-ANG was 6 times that of Ag2S by U87 MG cells in the lower layer (P<0.01). Conclusion: Brain targeted Ag2S-ANG and Ag2S-PEG-ANG are synthesized successfully. Ag2S-ANG QDs exhibit excellent ability to cross the blood-brain barrier system in vitro and target glioma cells, which lays the foundations for further study of in vivo brain targeting imaging.
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