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Self-assembled levan nanoparticles for targeted breast cancer imaging
Sun-Jung Kim1, Pan Kee Bae, Bong Hyun Chung
1BioNanotechnology Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB), 125 Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-806, Republic of Korea. chungbh@kribb.re.kr.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|November 11, 2014
Abstract:
We report on the targeted imaging of breast cancer using self-assembled levan nanoparticles. Indocyanine green (ICG) was encapsulated in levan nanoparticles via self-assembly. Levan-ICG nanoparticles were found to be successfully accumulated in breast cancer via specific interaction between fructose moieties in levan and overexpressed glucose transporter 5 in breast cancer cells.
