Abstract
Recent experiments have pointed out that cellular uptake is strongly dependent on the physical dimensions of endocytosed nanoparticles and the optimal radius of endocytosed virus-like particle coated by transferrin is around 50 nm. As the same time, the dimensions of receptor-ligand complex have strong effects on the size-dependent exclusion of proteins in cell environments. Inspired by these experimental results, a continuum elastic model is constructed to resolve the relationship between the dimensions of receptor-ligand complex and the optimal radius of endocytosed virus-like particle. These results demonstrate that the optimal radius of endocytosed virus-like particle depends on the dimensions of receptor-ligand complex and the dimension of receptor-ligand complex reduces the depletion zone.
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