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ArticleCell biomaterials2025

The mucosal protein corona in local nanoparticle drug delivery.

Alexa Stern, Alyssa P Petersen, Hannah C Zierden, Gregg A Duncan

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Article in Cell biomaterials, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Tissue-specific gene delivery approaches.Bioengineering & translational medicine · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Alexa SternFischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.
Alyssa P PetersenDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.
Hannah C ZierdenDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.
Gregg A DuncanFischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.

Funding

Understanding alterations to mucus composition and function in asthmaR01HL160540 · NHLBI · UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK · PI Gregg Duncan · 2022 to 2026
$2.1M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL160540
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For therapeutic delivery to the gastrointestinal, ocular, respiratory, and vaginal surfaces to be effective, formulations must be engineered to overcome the protective mucus barrier. To accomplish this, nanoparticle-based formulations designed to avoid entrapment in mucus have proven to be an ideal platform to improve the retention and delivery of therapeutic cargos to mucosal tissues. However, most of the past work in this area has not considered how proteins and lipids present in the mucus matrix impact the transport, distribution, and uptake of locally delivered nanoparticles. Despite decades of research examining the protein corona formed on systemically administered nanoparticles, very little is known regarding the protein corona formation and biological identity of mucus-exposed nanomaterials. This perspective highlights recent findings as well as outstanding questions surrounding the mucosal protein corona of locally delivered nanoparticle formulations.

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drug deliverymucusnanoparticlesProtein corona

Identifiers

PMID41312355
PMCPMC12656984

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