Carbohydrate-conjugated fluorescent silica nanoprobes for selective detection of galectin-1 and prostate cancer cells
2015
Carbohydrate-
conjugatedfluorescent silica
nanoprobeswere prepared and used as a platform for
galectin-1 and
prostate cancercell detection. The nanoparticles were efficiently
conjugatedusing native, unprotected carbohydrate structures following a photochemical approach, resulting in
lactose- and
cellobiose-
conjugatedprobes, respectively. The probes were used to challenge binding to
galectin-1, an overexpressed galactose-selective lectin at
prostate cancercell surfaces, and the results show that
lactose-
conjugated
nanoprobesexhibit differential binding behavior with
prostate cancercells and normal prostate cells. In particular,
lactose-
conjugatedfluorescent silica nanoparticles showed specific binding to PC3 cells pre-treated with a reducing agent. The results indicate that
galectin-1 expression and
galectin-1-selective nanoparticles are potentially useful for sensitive and selective detection of
prostate cancer.
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