TABLE 1.

A brief summary of recent AuNPs in therapeutic applications.

Peptide	Target	Loading	Delivery to	References
KTLLPTPYC	Plectin-1	Gemcitabine	Tumor cell	Pal et al., 2017
TAT	–	Cas9-sgRNA	Tumor cell	Wang et al., 2018
GE11	EGFR	Pc 4	Tumor cell	Meyers et al., 2015
RGD	Integrin αvβ3	–	Tumor blood vessels	Ali et al., 2017
RGD and CGGGPKKKRKVGG	Integrin αvβ3	–	The nucleus of tumor cell	Aioub and El-Sayed, 2016
CRQAGFSL	Urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor	5-Aminolevulinic acid	pancreatic tumor cell	Li et al., 2017
CPNFDWDPNNSNAGF APDLQHDPFFGLP	Squamous Cell Carcinoma Antigen 1	–	Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells	Jha et al., 2017
TSFAEYWALLSP	MDM2 and MDMX	–	Tumor cells bearing wild-type p53	He et al., 2020