作者
Bethany Powell Gray, Kathlynn C Brown
发表日期
2014/1/22
来源
Chemical reviews
卷号
114
期号
2
页码范围
1020-1081
出版商
American Chemical Society
简介
The surface of a cell represents a collection of macromolecules, which provides the cell with a unique cellular landscape specific to the type and state of the cell. Ligands that discriminate between subtle differences in cell surface phenotypes have utility in a wide variety of research and clinical applications. In particular, cell-binding ligands that can deliver biologically active cargo to a specific cell type or a diseased cell are highly sought. While the concept of the magic bullet drug was introduced by Paul Erlich over a century ago, the scientific community has yet to fully realize this goal.(1) This stems primarily from hurdles in obtaining high-affinity cell-binding ligands with the necessary discriminating power. The difficulty of the problem is realized by considering that the human body contains 210 distinct cell types, not including diseased cells, and is composed of∼ 10 14 cells. Furthermore, once isolated, the ligand …
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