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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nanoscale. 2020 Oct 1;12(37):19088–19092. doi: 10.1039/d0nr05008c

Scheme 1.

Scheme 1.

(a) Schematic presentation of the enzymatic transformation of the phosphorylated precursor 1 to carbohydrate amphiphile 2. (b-d) In tumors this transformation can trigger (c) self-assembly on the tumor surface and (d) blocking of the GLUT1 expressed by the proliferative cells on the tumor surface.