Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Cloaking nanoparticles with protein corona shield for targeted drug delivery

  • Jun Yong Oh,
  • Han Sol Kim,
  • L. Palanikumar,
  • Eun Min Go,
  • Batakrishna Jana,
  • Soo Ah Park,
  • Ho Young Kim,
  • Kibeom Kim,
  • Jeong Kon Seo,
  • Sang Kyu Kwak,
  • Chaekyu Kim,
  • Sebyung Kang,
  • Ja-Hyoung Ryu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06979-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The efficacy of nanoparticles can be significantly inhibited by serum proteins binding to them. Here, the author developed a supramolecularly constructed protein corona on nanoparticles, which minimises interactions with serum proteins to prevent the clearance of these particles by macrophages.