Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Targeted production of reactive oxygen species in mitochondria to overcome cancer drug resistance

  • Hai Wang,
  • Zan Gao,
  • Xuanyou Liu,
  • Pranay Agarwal,
  • Shuting Zhao,
  • Daniel W. Conroy,
  • Guang Ji,
  • Jianhua Yu,
  • Christopher P. Jaroniec,
  • Zhenguo Liu,
  • Xiongbin Lu,
  • Xiaodong Li,
  • Xiaoming He

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-02915-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Multidrug resistance is a major challenge in cancer therapy. Here, the authors develop a mitochondria-targeting nanoparticle system that inhibits adenosine triphosphate transporter activity via reactive oxygen species generation and can thus be used to target multidrug-resistant cancer.