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ADVANCED DRUG DELIVERY REVIEWS
Volume 97, Issue -, Pages 85-100Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.addr.2015.12.007
Keywords
Elastin-like recombinamers; Drug delivery; Macro-depots; Nano-carriers; Thermo-responsive materials; Self-assembling; Chemotherapeutic agents
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- EU [PITN-GA-2012-317306, MSCA-ITN-2014-642687]
- MINECO [PRI-PIBAR-2011-1403, MAT2012-38043, MAT2013-42473-R, MAT2013-41723-R]
- JCyL [VA152A12, VA155A12, VA313U14]
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The use of recombinant elastin-like materials, or elastin-like recombinamers (ELRs), in drug-delivery applications is reviewed in this work. Although ELRs were initially used in similar ways to other, more conventional kinds of polymeric carriers, their unique properties soon gave rise to systems of unparalleled functionality and efficiency, with the stimuli responsiveness of ELRs and their ability to self-assemble readily allowing the creation of advanced systems. However, their recombinant nature is likely the most important factor that has driven the current breakthrough properties of ELR-based delivery systems. Recombinant technology allows an unprecedented degree of complexity in macromolecular design and synthesis. In addition, recombinant materials easily incorporate any functional domain present in natural proteins. Therefore, ELR-based delivery systems can exhibit complex interactions with both their drug load and the tissues and cells towards which this load is directed. Selected examples, ranging from highly functional nanocarriers to macrodepots, will be presented. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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