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Newly isolated sporopollenin microcages from Cedrus libani and Pinus nigra as carrier for Oxaliplatin; xCELLigence RTCA-based release assay

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Sporopollenin-mediated control drug delivery has been studied extensively owing to its desirable physicochemical and biological properties. Herein, sporopollenin was successfully extracted from C. libani and P. nigra pollens followed by loading of a commonly known anticancer drug Oxaliplatin. Drug loading and physicochemical features were confirmed by using light microscopy, FT-IR, SEM and TGA. For the first-time, real-time cell analyzer system xCELLigence was employed to record the Oxaliplatin loaded sporopollenin-mediated cell death (CaCo-2 and Vero cells) in real time. Both the release assays confirmed the slow release of oxaliplatin from sporopollenin for around 40–45 h. The expression of MYC and FOXO-3 genes has been significantly increased in CaCo2 cell and decreased non-cancerous Vero cell confirming the fact that sporopollenin-mediated control release of oxaliplatin is promoting apoptosis cell death preventing the spread of negative effects on nearby healthy cells. All the results suggested that C. libani and P. nigra can be suitable candidates for the slow delivery of drugs.

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MM would like to thanks the scientific and technological council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) for supporting his thesis under program number TÜBİTAK-2215. The authors would like to acknowledge the technical and human support provided by Biotechnology Institute, Ankara University, and Scientific and Technological Application and Research Center, Aksaray University, Turkey.

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  1. Institute of Biotechnology, Ankara University, 06110, Ankara, Turkey

    Muhammad Mujtaba, Demet Cansaran-Duman & Sevcan Yangın

  2. Department of Biotechnology and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science and Letters, Aksaray University, 68100, Aksaray, Turkey

    Bahar Akyuz Yilmaz & Murat Kaya

  3. Department of Chemistry Technology, Technical Vocational School, Aksaray University, 68100, Aksaray, Turkey

    Lalehan Akyuz

  4. Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Kastamonu University, 37100, Kastamonu, Turkey

    Talip Çeter

  5. Department of Field Crops, Faculty of Agriculture, Ankara University, 06100, Ankara, Turkey

    Khalid Mahmood Khawar

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Mujtaba, M., Yilmaz, B.A., Cansaran-Duman, D. et al. Newly isolated sporopollenin microcages from Cedrus libani and Pinus nigra as carrier for Oxaliplatin; xCELLigence RTCA-based release assay. Polym. Bull. 79, 519–540 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00289-020-03531-7

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