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SUBMITTER: Dcona MM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5267943 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dcona M Michael MM Sheldon Jonathon E JE Mitra Deboleena D Hartman Matthew C T MC
Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters 20161218 3
A major area of cancer research focuses on improving the specificity of therapeutic agents by engineering drug-delivery vehicles that target overexpressed receptors on tumor cells. One of the most commonly used approaches involves targeting of folate receptors using folic acid conjugated to a drug-containing macromolecular cargo. Once internalized via endocytosis, the drugs must be released from these constructs in order to avoid being trapped in the endosomes. Here, we describe the synthesis of ...[more]