Outside Front Cover: Lipid Modified with Pyridinium Betaine Manipulates Liposomal Membrane Fusion Behavior for Spatially Confined Cytoplasmic Delivery
In the Research Article (e22025), Chunxiong Zheng, Bingjia Xu, Mingqiang Li, Guang Shi, and co-workers designed a pyridinium-betaine-capped lipid to regulate membrane fusion behavior of liposome. Leveraging its protonation effect, the liposomal membrane fusion activity can be rapidly and reversibly switched responding to acidic tumor environment, thereby confining lysosome-bypassing cytosolic delivery of STING agonist in tumors for potent antitumor immunity and negligible toxicity.
Authors
- Ke Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5845-7228)
- Guoqing Shi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4499-074X)
- Jiadong Zhou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5970-5350)
- TINGHUA LÜ
- Yongkang Du
- Xiaobing Lin
- Huanyu Xiong
- Yingting Zhao
- Huijuan Zheng
- Bingjia Xu
- Mingqiang Li
- Chunxiong Zheng
Institutions
- Sun Yat-sen University (CN)
- South China Normal University (CN)
- Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University (CN)
- Wuyi University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition
- Published
- 2026-04-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.2026-m2603031200
- Primary Topic
- interferon and immune responses
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00