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Sweet Talking Double Hydrophilic Block Copolymer Vesicles
Author(s) -
Pasparakis George,
Alexander Cameron
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200801098
Subject(s) - vesicle , copolymer , chemistry , sugar , glycopolymer , block (permutation group theory) , aqueous solution , biochemistry , membrane , organic chemistry , mathematics , polymer , combinatorics
How sweet it is : Double hydrophilic block copolymers containing glucose functionalities form vesicles in aqueous solutions with sugar groups on their surface. Small vesicles form large aggregates with glucose‐binding lectins or cells, whereas larger vesicles form discrete complexes. The “language” of association between cells and vesicles was demonstrated, and information transfer was shown by dye transport from vesicle to cell through glycopolymer links.