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ArticleNano letters2021

Dynamic Continuum of Nanoscale Peptide Assemblies Facilitates Endocytosis and Endosomal Escape.

Hongjian He, Jiaqi Guo, Jiashu Xu, Jiaqing Wang, Shuang Liu, Bing Xu

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Article in Nano letters, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 9% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Intranuclear Nanoribbons for Selective Killing of Osteosarcoma Cells.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2022
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  13. Synthesis and bioactivity of pyrrole-conjugated phosphopeptides.Beilstein journal of organic chemistry · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hongjian HeDepartment of Chemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02453, United States.
Jiaqi GuoDepartment of Chemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02453, United States.
Jiashu XuDepartment of Chemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02453, United States.
Jiaqing WangDepartment of Chemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02453, United States.
Shuang LiuDepartment of Chemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02453, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5548-8494
Bing XuDepartment of Chemistry, Brandeis University, 415 South Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02453, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4639-387X
Brandeis University · US

Funding

Subcellular Enzyme-instructed self-assembly for molecular anticancer nanomedicinesR01CA142746 · NCI · BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY · PI Bing Xu · 2010 to 2026
$6.4M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA142746
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) enables intracellular targeting by peptide assemblies, but how the ALP substrates enter cells remains elusive. Here we show that nanoscale phosphopeptide assemblies cluster ALP to enable caveolae-mediated endocytosis (CME) and endosomal escape. Specifically, fluorescent phosphopeptides undergo enzyme-catalyzed self-assembly to form nanofibers. Live cell imaging unveils that phosphopeptides nanoparticles, coincubated with HEK293 cells overexpressing red fluorescent protein-tagged tissue-nonspecific ALP (TNAP-RFP), cluster TNAP-RFP in lipid rafts to enable CME. Further dephosphorylation of the phosphopeptides produces peptidic nanofibers for endosomal escape. Inhibiting TNAP, cleaving the membrane anchored TNAP, or disrupting lipid rafts abolishes the endocytosis. Decreasing the transformation to nanofibers prevents the endosomal escape. As the first study establishing a dynamic continuum of nanoscale assemblies for cellular uptake, this work illustrates an effective design for enzyme-responsive supramolecular therapeutics and provides mechanism insights for understanding the dynamics of cellular uptake of proteins or exogenous peptide aggregates.

Indexed as

EndocytosisNanofibersEndosomesHEK293 CellsHumansPeptidesPeptidesEndocytosisEndosomal EscapeSelf-AssemblyTissue-Nonspecific Alkaline Phosphatase

Identifiers

PMID33939437
PMCPMC8180093
OpenAlexW3136324130

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