Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

A tumour-selective cascade activatable self-detained system for drug delivery and cancer imaging

  • Hong-Wei An,
  • Li-Li Li,
  • Yi Wang,
  • Ziqi Wang,
  • Dayong Hou,
  • Yao-Xin Lin,
  • Sheng-Lin Qiao,
  • Man-Di Wang,
  • Chao Yang,
  • Yong Cong,
  • Yang Ma,
  • Xiao-Xiao Zhao,
  • Qian Cai,
  • Wen-Ting Chen,
  • Chu-Qi Lu,
  • Wanhai Xu,
  • Hao Wang,
  • Yuliang Zhao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12848-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The activation of drugs within cellular systems may provide targeted therapies for cancer. Here, the authors make a drug delivery system that is activated within the cell and exploits XIAP expression to cleave a linker region, resulting in the self-assembly of the system and drug release within cancer cells.