Mitochondria-targeted fluorescent polymersomes for drug delivery to cancer cells

Prajakta Kulkarni, Malay Haldar, Matthew Confeld, C. J. Langaas, Xiaoyu Yang, Steven Y. Qian, Sanku Mallik

Polymer Chemistry · 2016 · 16 citations · 9 references

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Mitochondria is an attractive target to deliver anticancer drugs. We have synthesized a cationic triphenylphosphonium ion conjugated fluorescent polymer which self-assembles into nanosized polymersomes and targets the encapsulated anticancer drug doxorubicin to cancer cell mitochondria.

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