PMID- 23459692 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20211021 IS - 1616-301X (Print) IS - 1616-3028 (Electronic) IS - 1616-301X (Linking) VI - 21 IP - 23 DP - 2011 Dec 6 TI - Preparation and Characterization of Molecularly Imprinted Polymeric Nanoparticles for Atrial Natriuretic Peptide (ANP). PG - 4423-4429 AB - Natriuretic peptide receptor A (NPRA), the receptor for the cardiac hormone atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), is expressed abundantly on cancer cells and disruption of ANP-NPRA signaling inhibits tumor burden and metastasis. Since antagonists of NPRA signaling have not provided reproducible results, we reasoned that a synthetic neutralizing antibody to ANP, which has high selectivity and affinity for ANP, could be used to regulate ANP levels and attenuate NPRA signaling. In this study, we prepared molecularly imprinted polymer nanoparticles (MIPNPs) for ANP using a short peptide of ANP as the template and determined their binding affinity and selectivity. The MIPNPs were prepared by precipitation polymerization using NH(2)-SLRRSS-CONH(2), which is a short peptide from ANP as template, methacrylic acid (MAA) and N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAm) as functional monomers, bis-acrylamide (BIS) as crosslinker. The average diameter of MIPNPs and non-imprinted nanoparticles (NIPNPs) in water is 215.8 +/-4.6 nm and 197.7+/-3.1 nm respectively. The binding isotherm analysis showed that MIPNPs have a much higher binding affinity for template peptide and ANP than NIPNPs. Scatchard analysis gave an equilibrium dissociation constant, K(d) of 7.3 muM with a binding capacity 106.7 mumol/g for template peptide and K(d) of 7.9 muM with a binding capacity of 36.0 mumol/g for ANP. Measurements of binding kinetics revealed that MIPNPs reach protein adsorption equilibrium in 30 min. MIPNPs found to have high specificity for ANP with little affinity for BSA or scrambled ANP peptide. MIPNPs also recognized and adsorbed ANP in cell culture media spiked with ANP and human plasma. Taken together, these results indicate that MIPNPs have high affinity and selectivity for ANP and can be used as a synthetic antibody for modulating ANP-NPRA signaling in cancers. FAU - Wang, Chunyan AU - Wang C AD - Department of Molecular Medicine, University of South Florida, 12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd. ; Nanomedicine Research Center, University of South Florida, 12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd. FAU - Howell, Mark AU - Howell M FAU - Raulji, Payal AU - Raulji P FAU - Davis, Yvonne AU - Davis Y FAU - Mohapatra, Subhra AU - Mohapatra S LA - eng GR - R01 CA152005/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article DEP - 20110928 PL - Germany TA - Adv Funct Mater JT - Advanced functional materials JID - 101190390 PMC - PMC3583218 MID - NIHMS430880 OTO - NOTNLM OT - ANP-NPRA signaling OT - Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) OT - cancer OT - molecularly imprinted polymer OT - natriuretic peptide receptor A (NPRA) EDAT- 2011/12/06 00:00 MHDA- 2011/12/06 00:01 PMCR- 2013/02/27 CRDT- 2013/03/06 06:00 PHST- 2013/03/06 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/12/06 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/12/06 00:01 [medline] PHST- 2013/02/27 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1002/adfm.201100946 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Adv Funct Mater. 2011 Dec 6;21(23):4423-4429. doi: 10.1002/adfm.201100946. Epub 2011 Sep 28.