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Plant Protoplasts: Rational Design Principles for the Transport and Subcellular Distribution of Nanomaterials into Plant Protoplasts (Small 44/2018)
Author(s) -
Lew Tedrick Thomas Salim,
Wong Min Hao,
Kwak SeonYeong,
Sinclair Rosalie,
Koman Volodymyr B.,
Strano Michael S.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
small
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.201870202
Subject(s) - protoplast , nanoparticle , nanomaterials , plant cell , rational design , chloroplast , nanotechnology , subcellular localization , work (physics) , biophysics , biological system , materials science , biology , botany , microbiology and biotechnology , physics , biochemistry , cytoplasm , gene , thermodynamics
In article number 1802086 , Michael S. Strano and co‐workers develop an experimentally verified model to predict the passive transport of nanoparticles into plant protoplasts and chloroplasts. The surface charge and size of the nanoparticles are found to be the critical parameters that determine the subcellular localization of nanoparticles. The work demonstrates that nanoparticles can be rationally designed to target subcellular compartments in plant cells for plant biology and engineering applications.