Journal of advanced research
Carbon dots and DNA: DNA binding mechanisms and their effect on the cell cycle arrest.
Jiuyan Chen, Fang Li, Jiawen Yang, Jun Gu, Kayla Ellerbe, Bowen Zhao, Mehrdad Shiri, Yiqun Zhou, Arya Ajith, Annu Joji, Wei Zhang, Deema Abayawardena, Athula H Wikramanayake, Kun Wang, Fuwu Zhang
Published: 202510.1016/j.jare.2025.11.004
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Carbon dots (CDs), a type of carbon-based nanoparticles with sizes less than 10 nm, have been widely employed in nucleus-targeted drug delivery for cancer therapy and imaging, and some are capable of binding to DNA after entering the nu…
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