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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 21.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Soc Rev. 2018 May 21;47(10):3421–3432. doi: 10.1039/c8cs00008e

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Schematic representation of two representative nanoparticle-protein supramolecular architectures and their delivery mechanisms. Proteins non-covalently bound to nanoparticles are taken up by the cell via endocytosis, following endosomal release (a), while nanoparticle-protein nanocomposites are taken up by the cell via membrane fusion mechanism with direct release of the protein in the cytosol (b).