Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nanomedicine (Lond). 2012 Jan 11;7(6):815–833. doi: 10.2217/nnm.11.156

Table 1.

Evaluation of Nanozyme Entrance, Intracellular Trafficking, and Release by % Colocalization with Specific Intracellular Compartments in Carrier Cells, Human Macrophages

Organelle 5 min 15 min 30 min 60 min
Entrance
clatrin-coated pits 35.1 ± 2.2b 29.0 ± 1.1 21.6 ± 3.4 43.0 ± 3.9
caveolae 4.9 ± 1.9 2.2 ± 1.2 2.9 ± 0.2 1.3 ± 0.2

Intracellular trafficking
Acidic organelles 49.5 ± 6.2 56.6 ± 4.1 58.4 ± 3.4 61.0 ± 3.9
ER 18.3 ± 5.0 10.2 ± 4.9 14.6 ± 1.4 16.8 ± 1.5
Mitochondria 12.5 ± 1.6 9.7 ± 1.0 18.5 ± 2.3 17.0 ± 2.0
Early endosomes 13.0 ± 4.9 4.68 ± 2.2 7.2 ± 1.4 9.0 ± 0.8
Late endosomes 13.4 ± 1.5 9.9 ± 1.7 30.0 ± 3.8 24.7 ± 3.2
Recycling endosomes 35.0 ± 1.5 26.1 ± 2.2 26.2 ± 2.1 47.4 ± 9.5
Lysosomes 23.4 ± 6.7 11.13 ± 1.9 19.6 ± 3.8 35.8 ± 4.9

Release a
non-activated activated with LPS and IFN-γ
Actin microfilaments    26.1 ± 0.1 79.1 ± 7.2
a

nanozyme-preloaded murine macrophages were incubated with CATH.A neurons for 18 hours

b

Data represent means ± SEM (N = 40).