Lee, M.-H.; Liu, K.-H.; Thomas, J.L.; Chen, J.-R.; Lin, H.-Y. Immunotherapy of Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Magnetic PD-1 Peptide-Imprinted Polymer Nanocomposite and Natural Killer Cells. Biomolecules2019, 9, 651.
Lee, M.-H.; Liu, K.-H.; Thomas, J.L.; Chen, J.-R.; Lin, H.-Y. Immunotherapy of Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Magnetic PD-1 Peptide-Imprinted Polymer Nanocomposite and Natural Killer Cells. Biomolecules 2019, 9, 651.
Lee, M.-H.; Liu, K.-H.; Thomas, J.L.; Chen, J.-R.; Lin, H.-Y. Immunotherapy of Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Magnetic PD-1 Peptide-Imprinted Polymer Nanocomposite and Natural Killer Cells. Biomolecules2019, 9, 651.
Lee, M.-H.; Liu, K.-H.; Thomas, J.L.; Chen, J.-R.; Lin, H.-Y. Immunotherapy of Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Magnetic PD-1 Peptide-Imprinted Polymer Nanocomposite and Natural Killer Cells. Biomolecules 2019, 9, 651.
Abstract
Programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) is a biomarker on the surface of cells that has a role in promoting self-tolerance by suppressing the inflammatory activity of T cells. In this work, one peptide of PD-1 was used as the template in molecular imprinting. The magnetic peptide-imprinted poly(ethylene-co-vinyl alcohol) composite nanoparticles (MPIP NPs) were characterized by dynamic light scattering (DLS), high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) analysis and superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) analysis. Natural killer-92 (NK-92) cells were added to these composite nanoparticles and then incubated with human hepatoma (HepG2) cells. The viability and apoptosis pathway of HepG2 were then studied using cell counting kit-8 (CCK8) and the quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR), respectively. These nanoparticles were found significantly enhance the activity of natural killer cells toward HepG2 cells by increasing expression of NK-kB, caspase 8 and especially caspase 3.
Keywords
immunotherapy; human hepatoma cells; programmed cell death protein 1 (pd-1); magnetic nanoparticles; peptide-imprinted polymer; natural killer cells
Subject
Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanotechnology
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