Nano-Micro Letters, Volume. 16, Issue 1, 103(2024)

Molecular Mechanisms of Intracellular Delivery of Nanoparticles Monitored by an Enzyme-Induced Proximity Labeling

Junji Ren, Zibin Zhang, Shuo Geng, Yuxi Cheng, Huize Han, Zhipu Fan, Wenbing Dai, Hua Zhang, Xueqing Wang, Qiang Zhang*, and Bing He**
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  • Department of Pharmaceutics School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, 38 Xueyuan Rd, Haidian District, Beijing 100191, People’s Republic of China
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    Achieving increasingly finely targeted drug delivery to organs, tissues, cells, and even to intracellular biomacromolecules is one of the core goals of nanomedicines. As the delivery destination is refined to cellular and subcellular targets, it is essential to explore the delivery of nanomedicines at the molecular level. However, due to the lack of technical methods, the molecular mechanism of the intracellular delivery of nanomedicines remains unclear to date. Here, we develop an enzyme-induced proximity labeling technology in nanoparticles (nano-EPL) for the real-time monitoring of proteins that interact with intracellular nanomedicines. Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) nanoparticles coupled with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) were fabricated as a model (HRP(+)-PNPs) to evaluate the molecular mechanism of nano delivery in macrophages. By adding the labeling probe biotin-phenol and the catalytic substrate H2O2 at different time points in cellular delivery, nano-EPL technology was validated for the real-time in situ labeling of proteins interacting with nanoparticles. Nano-EPL achieves the dynamic molecular profiling of 740 proteins to map the intracellular delivery of HRP (+)-PNPs in macrophages over time. Based on dynamic clustering analysis of these proteins, we further discovered that different organelles, including endosomes, lysosomes, the endoplasmic reticulum, and the Golgi apparatus, are involved in delivery with distinct participation timelines. More importantly, the engagement of these organelles differentially affects the drug delivery efficiency, reflecting the spatial–temporal heterogeneity of nano delivery in cells. In summary, these findings highlight a significant methodological advance toward understanding the molecular mechanisms involved in the intracellular delivery of nanomedicines.

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    Junji Ren, Zibin Zhang, Shuo Geng, Yuxi Cheng, Huize Han, Zhipu Fan, Wenbing Dai, Hua Zhang, Xueqing Wang, Qiang Zhang, Bing He. Molecular Mechanisms of Intracellular Delivery of Nanoparticles Monitored by an Enzyme-Induced Proximity Labeling[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2024, 16(1): 103

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Aug. 17, 2023

    Accepted: Dec. 5, 2023

    Published Online: Jan. 23, 2025

    The Author Email: Zhang Qiang (zqdodo@bjmu.edu.cn), He Bing (hebingmumu@bjmu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s40820-023-01313-0

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