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ArticleScientific reports2018

Targeted Delivery of Cell Penetrating Peptide Virus-like Nanoparticles to Skin Cancer Cells.

Bee Koon Gan, Chean Yeah Yong, Kok Lian Ho, Abdul Rahman Omar, Noorjahan Banu Alitheen, Wen Siang Tan

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Bee Koon GanInstitute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
Chean Yeah YongInstitute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
Kok Lian HoDepartment of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
Abdul Rahman OmarInstitute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
Noorjahan Banu AlitheenInstitute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.ORCID 0000-0003-1966-8580
Wen Siang TanInstitute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. wstan@upm.edu.my.ORCID 0000-0001-9452-198X
Universiti Putra Malaysia · MY

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Skin cancer or cutaneous carcinoma, is a pre-eminent global public health problem with no signs of plateauing in its incidence. As the most common treatments for skin cancer, surgical resection inevitably damages a patient's appearance, and chemotherapy has many side effects. Thus, the main aim of this study was to screen for a cell penetrating peptide (CPP) for the development of a targeting vector for skin cancer. In this study, we identified a CPP with the sequence NRPDSAQFWLHH from a phage displayed peptide library. This CPP targeted the human squamous carcinoma A431 cells through an interaction with the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFr). Methyl-β-cyclodextrin (MβCD) and chlorpromazine hydrochloride (CPZ) inhibited the internalisation of the CPP into the A431 cells, suggesting the peptide entered the cells via clathrin-dependent endocytosis. The CPP displayed on hepatitis B virus-like nanoparticles (VLNPs) via the nanoglue successfully delivered the nanoparticles into A431 cells. The present study demonstrated that the novel CPP can serve as a ligand to target and deliver VLNPs into skin cancer cells.

Indexed as

Drug Delivery SystemsAmino Acid SequenceCell Line, TumorCell-Penetrating PeptidesEndocytosisErbB ReceptorsHepatitis BHepatitis B Core AntigensHumansNanoparticlesPeptide LibrarySkin NeoplasmsVaccines, Virus-Like ParticleCell-Penetrating PeptidesErbB ReceptorsHepatitis B Core AntigensPeptide LibraryVaccines, Virus-Like Particle

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PMID29855618
PMCPMC5981617
OpenAlexW2806755227

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