Biomimetic peptide self-assembly for functional materials

A Levin, TA Hakala, L Schnaider… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Natural biomolecular systems have evolved to form a rich variety of supramolecular
materials and machinery fundamental to cellular function. The assembly of these structures …

Hierarchically oriented organization in supramolecular peptide crystals

C Yuan, W Ji, R Xing, J Li, E Gazit, X Yan - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2019 - nature.com
Hierarchical self-assembly and crystallization with long-range ordered spatial arrangement
is ubiquitous in nature and plays an essential role in the regulation of structures and …

Multicomponent peptide assemblies

DM Raymond, BL Nilsson - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-assembled peptide nanostructures have been increasingly exploited as functional
materials for applications in biomedicine and energy. The emergent properties of these …

Targeting cancer cells with nanotherapeutics and nanodiagnostics: Current status and future perspectives

ES Ali, SM Sharker, MT Islam, IN Khan, S Shaw… - Seminars in cancer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nanotechnology is reshaping health care strategies and is expected to exert a tremendous
impact in the coming years offering better healthcare facilities. It has led to not only …

Bio-inspired engineering of cell-and virus-like nanoparticles for drug delivery

A Parodi, R Molinaro, M Sushnitha, M Evangelopoulos… - Biomaterials, 2017 - Elsevier
The engineering of future generations of nanodelivery systems aims at the creation of
multifunctional vectors endowed with improved circulation, enhanced targeting and …

Supramolecular self-assembly to control structural and biological properties of multicomponent hydrogels

BO Okesola, Y Wu, B Derkus, S Gani, D Wu… - Chemistry of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Self-assembled nanofibers are ubiquitous in nature and serve as inspiration for the design
of supramolecular hydrogels. A multicomponent approach offers the possibility of enhancing …

[HTML][HTML] Tunable morphology and functionality of multicomponent self-assembly: A review

L Li, R Sun, R Zheng - Materials & Design, 2021 - Elsevier
Programmed self-assembly and self-organization of well-designed molecular monomers
have been widely used to design stable nanostructures with desired structures and unique …

Rabies Virus‐Inspired Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) for Targeted Imaging and Chemotherapy of Glioma

C Qiao, R Zhang, Y Wang, Q Jia… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) restricts access to the brain of more than 98% of therapeutic
agents and is largely responsible for treatment failure of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) …

Synthetic approaches for nucleic acid delivery: choosing the right carriers

R Ni, R Feng, Y Chau - Life, 2019 - mdpi.com
The discovery of the genetic roots of various human diseases has motivated the exploration
of different exogenous nucleic acids as therapeutic agents to treat these genetic disorders …

Formation of functional super-helical assemblies by constrained single heptad repeat

S Mondal, L Adler-Abramovich, A Lampel… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Inspired by the key role of super-helical motifs in molecular self-organization, several
tandem heptad repeat peptides were used as building blocks to form well-ordered …