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Series GSE55349 Query DataSets for GSE55349
Status Public on Jan 22, 2015
Title Understanding toxicity pathways of gold nanoparticles: RNA expression study on Caco-2 human colon carcinoma cells
Organism Homo sapiens
Experiment type Expression profiling by array
Summary A safer design and higher eficacy of nano-gold therapeutic formulations requires examination of cellular responses to gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). In this work we compared cellular uptake, cytotoxicity and RNA expression patterns induced in Caco-2 cells of citrate-stabilized Au NP of two different sizes (5 and 30 nm). The toxicity was measured with Colony Forming Efficiency (CFE) and Trypan Blue assays at 24 and 72 h after exposure to AuNPs in the 10 - 300 mM range. Toxicity was observed only in the CFE assay, at 200 and 300 mM exposure levels, and exclusively for smaller AuNPs size. Cellular internalization was dose and time-dependent for both AuNPs. The most pronounced changes in gene expression, evaluated with Agilent microarrays, were detected at 72 h (300 mM) for 5 nm AuNPs, with 103 up and 708 down regulated transcripts. For 30 nm AuNPs, only 4 gene transcripts were repressed under these conditions. The biological processes affected by 5 nm AuNPs were: RNA/zinc ion/transition metal ion binding (decreased), cadmium/copper ion binding and glutathione metabolism (increased). Some Nrf2 responsive genes (several metallothioneins, HMOX, G6PD, OSGIN1 and GPX2) were highly up regulated. Members of the selenoproteins (SELT, SELK, 15 kDa selenoprotein, SEPP1 and GPX2) were also differentially expressed. Our findings indicate that at high concentrations, smaller AuNPs can induce metal exposure and oxidative stress signaling pathways, and might influence selenium homeostasis. Therefore, some observed effects associated with nano-gold cytotoxicity can be further explored as potential enhancers of anti-cancer properties of already existing AuNPs based nanomedicin.
 
Overall design Caco-2 cells were expoxed to spherical gold nanoparticles of two different sizes and concentrations (5 and 30 nm AuNPs, 100 and 300 microM). Cells were collected after 24 or 72 hours
 
Contributor(s) Bajak E, Fabbri M, Ponti J, Gioria S, Ojea-Jiménez I, Collotta A, Mariani V, Gilliland D, Rossi F, Gribaldo L
Citation(s) 25523186
Submission date Feb 25, 2014
Last update date Oct 11, 2016
Contact name Marco Fabbri
E-mail(s) fabbri.marco@gmail.com
Organization name Università dell'Insubria
Street address via dunant 5
City Varese (VA)
ZIP/Postal code 21100
Country Italy
 
Platforms (1)
GPL14550 Agilent-028004 SurePrint G3 Human GE 8x60K Microarray (Probe Name Version)
Samples (42)
GSM1334540 Caco2, Control, 24h, replicate 1
GSM1334541 Caco2, Control, 24h, replicate 2
GSM1334542 Caco2, Control, 24h, replicate 3
Relations
BioProject PRJNA239367

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