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ReviewBioconjugate chemistry2021

Protein Delivery: If Your GFP (or Other Small Protein) Is in the Cytosol, It Will Also Be in the Nucleus.

David C Luther, Taewon Jeon, Ritabrita Goswami, Harini Nagaraj, Dongkap Kim, Yi-Wei Lee, Vincent M Rotello

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Review in Bioconjugate chemistry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Filamentous-Actin-Mimicking Nanoplatform for Enhanced Cytosolic Protein Delivery.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
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  16. Probing the cell delivery of synthetic diubiquitin chains.Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

David C LutherDepartment of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, 710 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4697-8683
Taewon JeonMolecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts, 230 Stockbridge Road, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3840-5129
Ritabrita GoswamiDepartment of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, 710 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3812-6322
Harini NagarajDepartment of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, 710 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-1615-9126
Dongkap KimDepartment of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, 710 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.
Yi-Wei LeeDepartment of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, 710 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.
Vincent M RotelloDepartment of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, 710 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-5184-5439
University of Massachusetts Amherst · US

Funding

CHEMISTRY-BIOLOGY INTERFACE PREDOCTORAL TRAINING GRANTST32GM008515 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI THOMPSON, LYNMARIE K. · 1995 to 2020
$4.3M
Rapid Multi-Channel Serum Profiling for Liver Disease using Fluorescent NanosensorsR01DK121351 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI VINCENT M. ROTELLO · 2020 to 2026
$3.1M
Targeting of Bio-orthogonal Chemotherapeutic Nanozymes to Tumor-Associated MacrophagesR01EB022641 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI ROTELLO, VINCENT M. · 2017 to 2024
$3.0M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB022641NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK121351NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008515
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intracellular protein delivery is a transformative tool for biologics research and medicine. Delivery into the cytosol allows proteins to diffuse throughout the cell and access subcellular organelles. Inefficient delivery caused by endosomal entrapment is often misidentified as cytosolic delivery. This inaccuracy muddles what should be a key checkpoint in assessing delivery efficiency. Green fluorescent protein (GFP) is a robust cargo small enough to passively diffuse from the cytosol into the nucleus. Fluorescence of GFP in the nucleus is a direct readout for cytosolic access and effective delivery. Here, we highlight recent examples from the literature for the accurate assessment of cytosolic protein delivery using GFP fluorescence in the cytosol and nucleus.

Indexed as

Cell NucleusCytosolGreen Fluorescent ProteinsAnimalsHumansProtein TransportGreen Fluorescent Proteins

Identifiers

PMID33872490
PMCPMC8508718
OpenAlexW3155671283

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