Furin-mediated sequential delivery of anticancer cytokine and small-molecule drug shuttled by graphene.

Jiang, Tianyue; Sun, Wujin; Zhu, Qiuwen; Burns, Nancy A; Khan, Saad A; Mo, Ran; Gu, Zhen · Adv Mater · 2015

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A cellular protease (furin)-mediated graphene-based nanosystem is developed for co-delivery of a membrane-associated cytokine (tumor-necrosis-factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand, TRAIL) and an intracellular-acting small-molecule drug (Doxorubicin, DOX). TRAIL and DOX can be sequentially released toward the plasma membrane and nucleus, respectively.

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