Virus-inspired mimics: self-assembly of dendritic lipopeptides into arginine-rich nanovectors for improving gene delivery

摘要

With inspirations from natural viruses, arginine-containing dendritic lipopeptides were designed for bioinspired fabrication. Self-assembling the defined amphiphilic lipopeptides generated virus-inspired nanovectors with an arginine-rich corona. These nanovectors provided some remarkable benefits for gene delivery, including well-defined nanostructure, high transfection efficiency, serum resistance and low cytotoxicity.