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BENGALURU: The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) on Wednesday said that an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the institute has used a 3D tumour model and magnetically-driven nanomotors to probe the microenvironment of cancer cells.
“The team of researchers from the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE) and Department of Molecular Reproduction, Development and Genetics (MRDG), in their work, published in Angewandte Chemie, steered helical nanomotors remotely via an external magnetic field through the tumour model to sense, map and quantify changes in the cellular environment,” IISc said in a statement.
The model comprises both healthy and cancer cells embedded within a reconstituted basement membrane matrix, and mimics the breast cancer environment. The study highlights a new way of targeting cancer cells by manoeuvering nanomotors inside a tumour and waiting for them to localise in the vicinity of the cancerous site.
“We tried driving the nanomotors toward cancer cells in a tumour model and observed them getting stuck to the matrix near cancer cells, but this was not observed near normal cells,” says Debayan Dasgupta, a co-first author and PhD student at CeNSE.
The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a complex 3D network of proteins and carbohydrates secreted by living cells into their neighbourhood. However, when cancer cells secrete fresh material into the ECM, it disrupts the chemical and physical composition of the native ECM surrounding healthy cells, degrading the local environment.
Therefore, understanding how the cellular microenvironment is altered due to cancer cells and measuring these changes quantitatively could be vital in understanding the progression of cancer.
In the current study, IISc said, the researchers discovered that as the nanomotors approached the cancer cell membrane, they stuck to the matrix more strongly than they would to normal cells. To measure how strongly the nanomotors bound to the matrix, the team calculated the magnetic field strength required to overcome the adhesive force, and move forward.
“This means that the cancer cells are doing something. So, we did some measurements and discovered that the adhesive force depended on the type of cells, the strength of interaction and also which side of the cell the nanomotor approached,” explains Ambarish Ghosh, Associate Professor at CeNSE and one of the senior authors.
“In the end, we really ended up discovering a physical property of an important biological environment,” he added.
The reason why the nanomotors appear to stick to the cancer cells better is their charged ECM. This may be due to the presence of 2,3-linked sialic acid, a sugar-conjugated molecule which confers a negative charge on the cancer cell environment, the researchers found.
“They visualised the distribution of these sugars using fluorescent markers and found that sialic acids were dRead More – Source

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