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ArticleNature communications2017

Cooperative tumour cell membrane targeted phototherapy.

Heegon Kim, Junsung Lee, Chanhee Oh, Ji-Ho Park

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Article in Nature communications, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 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

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Recent Advances and Future Prospects in Biological-Membrane-Targeted Polymers.Polymer science & technology (Washington, D.C.) · 2025
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  2. Thylakoids for enhanced photodynamic therapy in hypoxic tumours.Science and technology of advanced materials · 2025
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  8. Organism-Generated Biological Vesicles In Situ: An Emerging Drug Delivery Strategy.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Heegon KimDepartment of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Korea.
Junsung LeeKAIST Institute for Health Science and Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Korea.
Chanhee OhDepartment of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Korea.
Ji-Ho ParkDepartment of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Korea.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The targeted delivery of therapeutics using antibodies or nanomaterials has improved the precision and safety of cancer therapy. However, the paucity and heterogeneity of identified molecular targets within tumours have resulted in poor and uneven distribution of targeted agents, thus compromising treatment outcomes. Here, we construct a cooperative targeting system in which synthetic and biological nanocomponents participate together in the tumour cell membrane-selective localization of synthetic receptor-lipid conjugates (SR-lipids) to amplify the subsequent targeting of therapeutics. The SR-lipids are first delivered selectively to tumour cell membranes in the perivascular region using fusogenic liposomes. By hitchhiking with extracellular vesicles secreted by the cells, the SR-lipids are transferred to neighbouring cells and further spread throughout the tumour tissues where the molecular targets are limited. We show that this tumour cell membrane-targeted delivery of SR-lipids leads to uniform distribution and enhanced phototherapeutic efficacy of the targeted photosensitizer.

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AnimalsCell Line, TumorCell MembraneDrug Delivery SystemsExtracellular VesiclesFemaleHeLa CellsHumansLipidsLiposomesMice, Inbred BALB CNeoplasms, ExperimentalPhototherapyXenograft Model Antitumor AssaysLipidsLiposomes

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PMID28627516
PMCPMC5481829

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