Ring opening polymerization of α-amino acids: advances in synthesis, architecture and applications of polypeptides and their hybrids

AR Mazo, S Allison-Logan, F Karimi… - Chemical society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Polypeptides have attracted considerable attention in recent decades due to their inherent
biodegradability and tunable cytocompatibility. Macromolecular design in conjunction with …

Hydrogel based biosensors for in vitro diagnostics of biochemicals, proteins, and genes

IY Jung, JS Kim, BR Choi, K Lee… - Advanced healthcare …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogel‐based biosensors have drawn considerable attention due to their various
advantages over conventional detection systems. Recent studies have shown that hydrogel …

Thermoresponsive polymers: from natural proteins to amino acid based Polymer synthesis

M Badreldin, P Salas-Ambrosio, E Garanger… - Progress in Polymer …, 2023 - Elsevier
In polymer science, thermoresponsiveness refers to macromolecular systems that display a
marked and discontinuous change in their physical properties with temperature. Such smart …

Protein PEPylation: a new paradigm of protein–polymer conjugation

Y Hou, H Lu - Bioconjugate Chemistry, 2019 - ACS Publications
Various polymers have been tested for protein conjugation with a goal of bridging the
complementary advantages of both components. However, many of these polymers …

Physical removal of anions from aqueous media by means of a macrocycle-containing polymeric network

X Ji, RT Wu, L Long, C Guo, NM Khashab… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Reported here is a hydrogel-forming polymer network that contains a water-soluble
tetracationic macrocycle. Upon immersion of this polymer network in aqueous solutions …

A Concise Approach to Site-Specific Topological Protein–Poly(amino acid) Conjugates Enabled by in Situ-Generated Functionalities

Y Hou, J Yuan, Y Zhou, J Yu, H Lu - Journal of the American …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Controlling the topology of polymer-modified proteins has attracted growing interest.
However, one of the main challenges in this field is the lack of efficient and site-specific …

Thermo-induced physically crosslinked polypeptide-based block copolymer hydrogels for biomedical applications

D Zhao, Y Rong, D Li, C He… - Regenerative Biomaterials, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Stimuli-responsive synthetic polypeptide-containing block copolymers have received
considerable attention in recent years. Especially, unique thermo-induced sol–gel phase …

Ultrasound‐induced circularly polarized luminescence based on homochiral aggregation of clothespin‐shaped Pt (II) complexes

M Ikeshita, K Takahashi, N Hara… - Responsive …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ultrasound‐induced circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) was achieved using planar
chiral, binuclear clothespin‐shaped trans‐bis (salicylaldiminato) platinum (II) complexes …

Development of polypeptide-based materials toward messenger RNA delivery

B Zhao, X Zhang, MS Bickle, S Fu, Q Li, F Zhang - Nanoscale, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Messenger RNA (mRNA)-based therapeutic agents have demonstrated significant potential
in recent times, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. As a …

Rapidly thermoreversible and biodegradable polypeptide hydrogels with sol–gel–sol transition dependent on subtle manipulation of side groups

D Zhao, D Li, F Quan, Y Zhou, Z Zhang… - …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Thermoreversible hydrogels are attractive materials for biomedical applications, but their
applications are still limited by nonbiodegradability and/or slow temperature-dependent gel …