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ArticleNano letters2008

Encapsulation of semiconducting polymers in vault protein cages.

Benny C Ng, Marcella Yu, Ajaykumar Gopal, Leonard H Rome, Harold G Monbouquette, Sarah H Tolbert

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Article in Nano letters, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Vault nanoparticles engineered with the protein transduction domain, TAT48, enhances cellular uptake.Integrative biology : quantitative biosciences from nano to macro · 2013
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  11. Vaults engineered for hydrophobic drug delivery.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2011
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Benny C NgDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
Marcella Yu
Ajaykumar Gopal
Leonard H Rome
Harold G Monbouquette
Sarah H Tolbert

Funding

Biotechnology Training in Biomedical Sciences and EngineeringT32GM067555 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI GU, ZHEN · 2005 to 2019
$2.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM067555
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We demonstrate that a semiconducting polymer [poly(2-methoxy-5-propyloxy sulfonate phenylene vinylene), MPS-PPV] can be encapsulated inside recombinant, self-assembling protein nanocapsules called "vaults". Polymer incorporation into these nanosized protein cages, found naturally at approximately 10,000 copies per human cell, was confirmed by fluorescence spectroscopy and small-angle X-ray scattering. Although vault cellular functions and gating mechanisms remain unknown, their large internal volume and natural prevalence within the human body suggests they could be used as carriers for therapeutics and medical imaging reagents. This study provides the groundwork for the use of vaults in encapsulation and delivery applications.

Indexed as

SemiconductorsDNADrug CarriersDrug Delivery SystemsGenetic TherapyHumansMicroscopy, Electron, TransmissionModels, StatisticalNanocapsulesNanocompositesPolymersProteinsSpectrometry, FluorescenceX-RaysDNADrug CarriersNanocapsulesPolymersProteins

Identifiers

PMID18803422
PMCPMC3046045

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