Evidence map›Paper›PMID 36905683›Full record

ArticleAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2024

Modular Synthesis of Semiconducting Graft Copolymers to Achieve "Clickable" Fluorescent Nanoparticles with Long Circulation and Specific Cancer Targeting.

Adam Creamer, Alessandra Lo Fiego, Alice Agliano, Lino Prados-Martin, Håkon Høgset, Adrian Najer, Daniel A Richards, Jonathan P Wojciechowski, James E J Foote, Nayoung Kim and 16 more

Open access · hybridAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Designing Physical Unclonable Functions From Optically Active Materials.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025
    Review
  4. Review
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Long-Term Cell-Membrane-Coated Ultrabright Nanospheres for Targeted Cancer Cell Imaging and Hydrophobic Drug Delivery.Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society · 2025
    Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

26 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.

Adam CreamerDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6203-8456
Alessandra Lo FiegoDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5797-8884
Alice AglianoDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4846-8086
Lino Prados-MartinDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2196-3706
Håkon HøgsetDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
Adrian NajerDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4868-9364
Daniel A RichardsDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8827-9170
Jonathan P WojciechowskiDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6272-515X
James E J FooteDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0161-1386
Nayoung KimDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3699-6458
Amy MonahanDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5759-1150
Jiaqing TangDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
André ShamsabadiDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8466-5621
Léa N C RochetUCL Department of Chemistry, University College London, London, WC1H 0AJ, UK.
Ioanna A ThanasiUCL Department of Chemistry, University College London, London, WC1H 0AJ, UK.
Laura R de la BallinaDepartment of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, 0372, Norway.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5363-7433
Charlotte L RapleyDepartment of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, W12 0BZ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2976-8657
Stephen TurnockDivision of Radiotherapy and Imaging, The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, SM2 5NG, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1959-3569
Elizabeth A LoveLifeArc, Accelerator Building, Open Innovation Campus, Stevenage, SG1 2FX, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4403-8791
Laurence BugeonDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6978-2878
Margaret J DallmanDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9079-3344
Martin HeeneyDepartment of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, W12 0BZ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6879-5020
Gabriela Kramer-MarekDivision of Radiotherapy and Imaging, The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, SM2 5NG, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8053-3880
Vijay ChudasamaUCL Department of Chemistry, University College London, London, WC1H 0AJ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8876-3285
Federico FenaroliDepartment of Chemistry, Bioscience and Environmental Engineering, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, 4021, Norway.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9060-8786
Molly M StevensDepartment of Materials, Department of Bioengineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8940-9261
NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre · GBImperial College London · GBUniversity College London · GBInstitute of Cancer Research · GBUniversity of Oslo · NOLifeArc · GB

Funding

AffibodyABAker ScholarshipCRUK 100063CRUK 27886CRUK 29385EC 859458EPRSC and SFI Centre for Doctoral Training in Advanced Characterisation of Materials EP/S023259/1EPSRC EP/K020641/1EPSRC EP/S023518/1EPSRC EP/T517793/1EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Neurotechnology EP/L016737/1EPSRC IRC Agile Early Warning Sensing Systems for Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Resistance EP/K031953/1EPSRC IRC Agile Early Warning Sensing Systems for Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Resistance EP/R00529X/1H2020 Excellent Science 859458Institute of Cancer ResearchKreftforeningen 711091Leverhulme TrustLifeArcNFR 314684Norges Forskningsrådet 273319Norges Forskningsrådet 275873Rosetrees TrustRoyal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies CiET2021/94Royal SocietyUK Regenerative Medicine Platform MR/R015651/1University College LondonWellcome Trust 209121Wellcome Trust 209121/Z/17/ZWellcome Trust 209121_Z_17_ZWolfson Foundation
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Semiconducting polymer nanoparticles (SPNs) are explored for applications in cancer theranostics because of their high absorption coefficients, photostability, and biocompatibility. However, SPNs are susceptible to aggregation and protein fouling in physiological conditions, which can be detrimental for in vivo applications. Here, a method for achieving colloidally stable and low-fouling SPNs is described by grafting poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) onto the backbone of the fluorescent semiconducting polymer, poly(9,9'-dioctylfluorene-5-fluoro-2,1,3-benzothiadiazole), in a simple one-step substitution reaction, postpolymerization. Further, by utilizing azide-functionalized PEG, anti-human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) antibodies, antibody fragments, or affibodies are site-specifically "clicked" onto the SPN surface, which allows the functionalized SPNs to specifically target HER2-positive cancer cells. In vivo, the PEGylated SPNs are found to have excellent circulation efficiencies in zebrafish embryos for up to seven days postinjection. SPNs functionalized with affibodies are then shown to be able to target HER2 expressing cancer cells in a zebrafish xenograft model. The covalent PEGylated SPN system described herein shows great potential for cancer theranostics.

Indexed as

Erb-b2 Receptor Tyrosine KinasesNanoparticlesPolyethylene GlycolsSemiconductorsZebrafishAnimalsCell Line, TumorClick ChemistryFluorescent DyesHumansMiceNeoplasmsPolymersErb-b2 Receptor Tyrosine KinasesFluorescent DyesPolyethylene GlycolsPolymersfluorescent nanoparticlesgraft copolymerspolymer brushespolymer dotssemiconducting polymer nanoparticles

Identifiers

PMID36905683
PMCPMC7616993
OpenAlexW4323922768

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.