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ReviewACS nano2026

The Biology of Endosomal Escape: Strategies for Enhanced Delivery of Therapeutics.

G S Chahal, K J Helbig, R G Parton, E A Monson

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Review in ACS nano, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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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

30 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. PEBP1 Regulates Ferroptosis in Acute Glaucoma: Targeted Therapy Using Engineered Exosomes.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2026
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  4. Supramolecular Degraders: An Emerging Paradigm in Targeted Protein Degradation.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  6. Dual pKa Lipid Nanoparticles for Lung-tropic mRNA Delivery and pH-Programmed Endosomal Escape.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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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

4 authors.

G S ChahalDepartment of Microbiology, Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology, La Trobe University, Bundoora 3086, Australia.
K J HelbigDepartment of Microbiology, Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology, La Trobe University, Bundoora 3086, Australia.
R G PartonInstitute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4067, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-7494-5248
E A MonsonDepartment of Microbiology, Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology, La Trobe University, Bundoora 3086, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-5632-9575

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intracellular delivery of biomolecules is essential to the success of modern therapeutics, yet endosomal entrapment remains a critical barrier to efficacy, and this has been highlighted with the push toward lipid nanoparticle (LNP) therapeutic delivery. Following cellular uptake, most cargo becomes sequestered in endosomes, where it is vulnerable to degradation or exocytosis, unless effective escape mechanisms are triggered. Here, we examine how the efficiency of cellular uptake and the ability to breach endosomal membranes jointly determine the bioavailability and functional delivery of therapeutic agents. We explore natural strategies evolved by pathogens, including membrane fusion, pore formation, and lipid remodeling, as well as emerging technologies to harness this knowledge to enhance delivery of therapeutic cargo to the cytoplasm. By bridging cellular biology with translational design, this review highlights the combined importance of sufficient uptake and effective escape in optimizing cargo delivery and outlines current innovations aimed at overcoming this long-standing bottleneck.

Indexed as

Drug Delivery SystemsEndosomesNanoparticlesAnimalsHumansLipidsLipidscellular uptakecytosolic deliverydrug deliveryendocytosisendosomal escapeendosomal traffickingextracellular vesicleslipid nanoparticlesmembrane fusionnanomedicine

Identifiers

PMID41488988
PMCPMC12825385

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