Targeted Delivery of siRNA with pH-Responsive Hybrid Gold Nanostars for Cancer Treatment

In this work, we report the engineering of gold nanostars (GNS) to deliver small interfering RNA (siRNA) into HepG2 cells. The ligand DG-PEG-Lipoic acid (LA)-Lys-9R (hydrazone) was designed to functionalize GNS, and create the nanoparticles named as 9R/DG-GNS (hydrazone). In the ligand, 2-deoxygluco...

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Main Authors: Hongyan Zhu, Wanwan Liu, Ziting Cheng, Ke Yao, Yu Yang, Bohui Xu, Gaoxing Su
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-09-01
Series:International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/18/10/2029