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Abstract
Protein materials are promising drug delivery vehicles, but their use for intracellular protein and nucleic acid cargo delivery has been limited. We have developed self-assembling elastin-like polypeptide (ELP)-based protein nanoparticles that are functionalized to enable complexation and intracellular delivery of biomacromolecular cargo, including gene editors in the form of mRNA, plasmid DNA and ribonucleoproteins.
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