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.
S. Kim, P. K. Bae and B. H. Chung, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 107 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC07679F
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