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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 27.
Published in final edited form as: ACS Nano. 2016 Dec 1;10(12):10631–10635. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.6b07673

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Gold nanoparticles delivered into biological systems are rapidly coated with proteins, which stabilize the AuNPs to prevent aggregation. AuNP binding also alters protein conformation to inhibit protein function.