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SUBMITTER: Perera VS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4331036 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Perera Vindya S VS Liu Haijian H Wang Zhi-Qiang ZQ Huang Songping D SD
Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society 20130101 23
A layer-by-layer self-assembly method leads to the formation of Au@ZnMoS<sub>4</sub> core-shell nanoparticles (NPs). The PEGylated Au@ZnMoS<sub>4</sub> NPs are highly water-dispersible, exhibit no cytotoxicity and can penetrate the cell membrane to selectively remove copper(I) ions from HepG2 cells in the presence of other endogenous and biologically essential metal ions including Mg(II), Ca(II), Mn(II) and Fe(II), demonstrating their potential as a novel intracellular copper detoxifying agent. ...[more]