Intracellular Fate of Peptide-Mediated Delivered Cargoes

Title:Intracellular Fate of Peptide-Mediated Delivered Cargoes

Volume: 19 Issue: 16

Author(s): Irene Martin, Meritxell Teixido and Ernest Giralt

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Keywords: Cell penetrating peptides, internalization mechanism, drug delivery, Quantum dot delivery and nucleic acid delivery

Abstract: Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) are promising tools for intracellular delivery. However, no consensus regarding their internalization mechanism has been reached within the scientific community. Although endocytosis seems to be the preferred internalization mechanism for most CPP-cargo complexes, examples of direct translocation have also been identified. In this review we go through the several ways of studying CPP-mediated cargo delivery in cells and the possible factors affecting the internalization pathways followed by these complexes. In addition, we analyze the CPP-mediated delivery of two relevant cargoes, namely quantum dots and nucleic acids, focusing on the internalization mechanism that they follow.

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Martin Irene, Teixido Meritxell and Giralt Ernest, Intracellular Fate of Peptide-Mediated Delivered Cargoes, Current Pharmaceutical Design 2013; 19 (16) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1381612811319160007