Thioketal Lipid Nanoparticles

Lung-Targeted Protein Delivery

Thioketal-containing lipid nanoparticles identified by mass spectrometry-assisted screening enable selective delivery of functional proteins to the lung in vivo.

Liu, Ji · Zhang, Yangyang · Tianyu, Ma · Zhao, Zhenwen · Wang, Ming

Nano Letters 2026

Advantages

combinatorial library of 46 thioketal-containing biodegradable lipids

receptor-mediated uptake by pulmonary endothelial cells

validation across multiple animal species

activate MAPK signaling, mitigating ferroptosis and inflammatory injury