Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Crossing the blood-brain-barrier with nanoligand drug carriers self-assembled from a phage display peptide

  • Lin-Ping Wu,
  • Davoud Ahmadvand,
  • Junan Su,
  • Arnaldur Hall,
  • Xiaolong Tan,
  • Z. Shadi Farhangrazi,
  • S. Moein Moghimi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12554-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Bacteriophages can bind targets with only a few copies of a display peptide while most nanoparticles with thousands achieve poor binding. Here the authors form hierarchical arrangements of phage peptides to delivery siRNA across the blood brain barrier.