Photodinamic therapy (PDT) has gained an increasing interest as a new tool to treat skin cancers such as melanoma. This clinical approach take advantage from the combination of a photosensitizer and a specific light wavelength able to induce singlet oxygen production. Mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) have been widely investigated as drug nanocarriers as their structure and morphology could be customized to produce suitable nanoplatforms enabling high cargo capacity. In the present study MSNs were successfully conjugated with the second generation photosensitizer verteporfin and the resulting nanoplatform (Ver-MSNs) was tested in an in vitro PDT model as a potential tool for melanoma treatment. Ver-MSNs based PDT did not affect cell proliferation of neither a normal human keratinocyte cell line (HaCaT) or a low mestastatic melanoma cell line (A375P). On the other hand Ver-MSNs based PDT deeply affect the highly invasive SK-MEL-28 melanoma cell line behavior, as testified by the strong reduction in cell proliferation along with the dramatic change in cellular morphology, through a nanoparticle internalization dependent mechanism. In fact, experiments performed in the presence of endocytosis inhibitors (chlorpromazine and amiloride) resulted in an attenuation of Ver-MSNs based PDT induced cell death, along with a recover in cellular morphology. MSN doped with verteporfin could thus represent a promising and useful tool for PDT treatment of highly invasive melanoma.

Verteporfin based silica nanoparticle for in vitro selective inhibition of human highly invasive melanoma cell proliferation / M. Rizzi, S. Tonello, B.M. Estevão, E. Gianotti, L. Marchese, F. Reno'. - In: JOURNAL OF PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY B-BIOLOGY. - ISSN 1011-1344. - 167:(2017), pp. 1-6. [10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2016.12.021]

Verteporfin based silica nanoparticle for in vitro selective inhibition of human highly invasive melanoma cell proliferation

F. Reno'
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2017

Abstract

Photodinamic therapy (PDT) has gained an increasing interest as a new tool to treat skin cancers such as melanoma. This clinical approach take advantage from the combination of a photosensitizer and a specific light wavelength able to induce singlet oxygen production. Mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) have been widely investigated as drug nanocarriers as their structure and morphology could be customized to produce suitable nanoplatforms enabling high cargo capacity. In the present study MSNs were successfully conjugated with the second generation photosensitizer verteporfin and the resulting nanoplatform (Ver-MSNs) was tested in an in vitro PDT model as a potential tool for melanoma treatment. Ver-MSNs based PDT did not affect cell proliferation of neither a normal human keratinocyte cell line (HaCaT) or a low mestastatic melanoma cell line (A375P). On the other hand Ver-MSNs based PDT deeply affect the highly invasive SK-MEL-28 melanoma cell line behavior, as testified by the strong reduction in cell proliferation along with the dramatic change in cellular morphology, through a nanoparticle internalization dependent mechanism. In fact, experiments performed in the presence of endocytosis inhibitors (chlorpromazine and amiloride) resulted in an attenuation of Ver-MSNs based PDT induced cell death, along with a recover in cellular morphology. MSN doped with verteporfin could thus represent a promising and useful tool for PDT treatment of highly invasive melanoma.
Melanoma; Mesoporous silica nanoparticles; PDT; Proliferation; Verteporfin
Settore BIO/16 - Anatomia Umana
2017
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