Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Framework nucleic acids as programmable carrier for transdermal drug delivery

  • Christian Wiraja,
  • Ying Zhu,
  • Daniel Chin Shiuan Lio,
  • David C. Yeo,
  • Mo Xie,
  • Weina Fang,
  • Qian Li,
  • Mengjia Zheng,
  • Maurice Van Steensel,
  • Lihua Wang,
  • Chunhai Fan,
  • Chenjie Xu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09029-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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DNA nanostructures hold great promise for drug delivery, but systemic administration is problematic. Here, the authors demonstrate that framework nucleic acids (FNAs) improve drug accumulation in tumours in topical application and that penetration depth is controllable through adjusting FNA size.