Publication: Poly(ethylene glycol) with Observable Shedding
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2010
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Gao, Weiwei, Robert Langer, and Omid C. Farokhzad. 2010. “Poly(ethylene Glycol) with Observable Shedding.” Angewandte Chemie International Edition 49 (37) (August 2): 6567–6571. doi:10.1002/anie.201001868.
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A novel FRET-bearing poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) conjugate fluoresces at 520 nm when it is cleaved off from nanoparticles (NPs). When the NPs were targeted to cancer cell lines, the reducing redox of the endosomal compartment caused disulfide bond cleavage and shedding of the PEG layer. The fluorescence emission can be suppressed by N-ethylmaleimide to inhibit disulfide cleavage and restored by dithiothreitol, a disulfide cleavage reagent, indicating a direct correlation between fluorescence emission and PEG shedding.
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FRET, PEG, Disulfide, Shedding, Nanoparticles
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