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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

Multivalent weak interactions enhance selectivity of interparticle binding.

M R W Scheepers, L J van IJzendoorn, M W J Prins

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

M R W ScheepersDepartment of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-5197-6212
L J van IJzendoornDepartment of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
M W J PrinsDepartment of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands; m.w.j.prins@tue.nl.ORCID 0000-0002-9788-7298

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Targeted drug delivery critically depends on the binding selectivity of cargo-transporting colloidal particles. Extensive theoretical work has shown that two factors are necessary to achieve high selectivity for a threshold receptor density: multivalency and weak interactions. Here, we study a model system of DNA-coated particles with multivalent and weak interactions that mimics ligand-receptor interactions between particles and cells. Using an optomagnetic cluster experiment, particle aggregation rates are measured as a function of ligand and receptor densities. The measured aggregation rates show that the binding becomes more selective for shorter DNA ligand-receptor pairs, proving that multivalent weak interactions lead to enhanced selectivity in interparticle binding. Simulations confirm the experimental findings and show the role of ligand-receptor dissociation in the selectivity of the weak multivalent binding.

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DNADrug Delivery SystemsKineticsLigandsReceptors, Cell SurfaceDNADNA receptorLigandsReceptors, Cell Surfacemultivalencyparticlesselectivity

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PMID32859760
PMCPMC7502730

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