Polyethylene Glycol Backfilling Mitigates the Negative Impact of the Protein Corona on Nanoparticle Cell Targeting. Dai, Q., Walkey, C., & Chan, W. C. W. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 53(20):5093–5096, 2014. _eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/anie.201309464
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In protein-rich environments such as the blood, the formation of a protein corona on receptor-targeting nanoparticles prevents target recognition. As a result, the ability of targeted nanoparticles to selectively bind to diseased cells is drastically inhibited. Backfilling the surface of a targeted nanoparticle with polyethylene glycol (PEG) molecules is demonstrated to reduce the formation of the protein corona and re-establishes specific binding. The length of the backfilled PEG molecules must be less than the length of the ligand linker; otherwise, PEG interferes with the binding of the targeting ligand to its corresponding cellular receptor.

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