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 2.

Evaluation of Nanozyme Entrance and Intracellular Trafficking by % Colocalization with Specific Intracellular Compartments in in Target Cells, HBMEC

Organelle from macrophagesa free, from media
30 min 60 min 30 min 60 min
Entrance
actin 13.1 ± 2.5 b 19.0 ± 1.4 n/a n/a
tubulin 58.0 ± 4.3 44.5 ± 2.5 n/a n/a

Intracellular trafficking
ER 9.6 ± 21.7 16.3 ± 1.0 18.7 ± 1.9 19.1 ± 1.0
Mitochondria 8.9 ± 1.1 6.9 ± 0.7 1.1 ± 0.3 0.7 ± 1.4
Early endosomes 4.2 ± 0.9 (*) 17.2 ± 1.6 (*) 15.2 ± 3.3 26.9 ± 1.7
Late endosomes 29.5 ± 1.4 (**) 22.4 ± 1.3 (**) 4.3 ± 0.7 12.2 ± 2.1
Recycling endosomes 9.5 ± 1.4 (*) 11.8 ± 1.1 (*) 4.4 ± 0.4 19.7 ± 2.1
Lysosomes 9.6 ± 2.4 (*) 11.0 ± 2.0 (*) 27.8 ± 4.4 19.4 ± 2.4
a

Statistical significance compared to colocalization levels of macrophages-free nanozyme accumulated from the media is shown by asterisk: p<0.05 (*); p<0.005 (**).

b

Data represent means ± SEM (N = 40).