Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Probing the impact of sulfur/selenium/carbon linkages on prodrug nanoassemblies for cancer therapy

  • Bingjun Sun,
  • Cong Luo,
  • Xuanbo Zhang,
  • Mengran Guo,
  • Mengchi Sun,
  • Han Yu,
  • Qin Chen,
  • Wenqian Yang,
  • Menglin Wang,
  • Shiyi Zuo,
  • Pengyu Chen,
  • Qiming Kan,
  • Haotian Zhang,
  • Yongjun Wang,
  • Zhonggui He,
  • Jin Sun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11193-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Prodrug-based self-assembled nanoparticles have emerged as an efficient drug delivery system (DDS) for cancer therapy. Here, the authors show that the type of bond in prodrug assemblies influences the efficiency of the DDS on several different levels.