What are glyconanoparticles?

Answer 1

Glyconanoparticles are nanoparticles (of nano size between 1 and 100 nanometer) capped with carbohydrates lipids, or peptides. Glyconanoparticles generally consist of three components:

1. Metal core (usually gold, silver or other metals )
2. Linker (wide variety of chemical linkers are used)
3. Ligand (lipids, carbohydrates DNA, RNA, Peptides, or any chemical entity)

Some of applications of Glyconanoparticles:

1. Targeted Drug delivery
2. Invitro or invivo imaging
3. Vaccine and anti-adhesive technology (especially in cancer treatment)