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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2013 May 28;52(27):6926–6929. doi: 10.1002/anie.201209633

Figure 1.

Figure 1

(a) Illustration of intracellular delivery of plasmid DNA to the nucleus of a cancer cell using ROS-cleavable poly(amino thioketal) (PATK). After the DNA/PATK polyplexes have been internalized by the cancer cell and escaped from the endosome, ROS-triggered degradation of the PATK facilitates the intracellular release of DNA from the particle, leading to enhanced gene transfection. (b) Synthetic scheme of ROS-responsive PATK.