Influence of ligand distribution on uptake efficiency

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SCHUBERTOVÁ Veronika MARTINEZ-VERACOECHEA Francisco J. VÁCHA Robert

Year of publication 2015
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source SOFT MATTER
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Central European Institute of Technology

Citation
Web http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2015/sm/c4sm02815e
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c4sm02815e
Field Physical chemistry and theoretical chemistry
Keywords RECEPTOR-MEDIATED ENDOCYTOSIS; SHAPE ANISOTROPY; LIPID-BILAYER; NANOPARTICLES; MEMBRANE; TRANSLOCATION; ROTATION
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Description Cellular uptake is a crucial process in nanomedicine and drug-delivery; however, the factors that affect its efficiency/speed are not well understood. We report computer simulations on passive uptake via receptor-mediated endocytosis of nanoparticle coated with ligands. In particular, we study how the distribution of ligands on the nanoparticle surface influences the uptake rate. The speed of membrane wrapping and uptake was found to be the fastest for nanoparticles with homogeneous ligand distributions, where ligands are spread evenly on the surface. We show that the diffusion of the ligands on the nanoparticle can hinder its uptake, since upon the interaction with the membrane the ligand distribution becomes extremely inhomogeneous, with a large ligand-free patch. When the ligand-free-area was more than 20% of the surface, we did not observe uptake within the scale of our simulations.
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