DNA functional materials assembled from branched DNA: design, synthesis, and applications

Y Dong, C Yao, Y Zhu, L Yang, D Luo… - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
DNA is traditionally known as a central genetic biomolecule in living systems. From an
alternative perspective, DNA is a versatile molecular building-block for the construction of …

Principles and applications of nucleic acid strand displacement reactions

FC Simmel, B Yurke, HR Singh - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
Dynamic DNA nanotechnology, a subfield of DNA nanotechnology, is concerned with the
study and application of nucleic acid strand-displacement reactions. Strand-displacement …

Bioresponsive materials

Y Lu, AA Aimetti, R Langer, Z Gu - Nature Reviews Materials, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract 'Smart'bioresponsive materials that are sensitive to biological signals or to
pathological abnormalities, and interact with or are actuated by them, are appealing …

Overcoming obstacles in the tumor microenvironment: Recent advancements in nanoparticle delivery for cancer theranostics

M Overchuk, G Zheng - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
Despite rapid advancements in the field of nanotechnology, there is mounting frustration in
the scientific community regarding the translational impact of nanomedicine. Modest …

Transformable liquid-metal nanomedicine

Y Lu, Q Hu, Y Lin, DB Pacardo, C Wang, W Sun… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
To date, numerous inorganic nanocarriers have been explored for drug delivery systems
(DDSs). However, the clinical application of inorganic formulations has often been hindered …

External triggering and triggered targeting strategies for drug delivery

Y Wang, DS Kohane - Nature Reviews Materials, 2017 - nature.com
Drug delivery systems that are externally triggered to release drugs and/or target tissues
hold considerable promise for improving the treatment of many diseases by minimizing …

Rational engineering of a dynamic, entropy‐driven DNA nanomachine for intracellular microRNA imaging

CP Liang, PQ Ma, H Liu, X Guo… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We rationally engineered an elegant entropy‐driven DNA nanomachine with three‐
dimensional track and applied it for intracellular miRNAs imaging. The proposed …

A lysosome-targeted DNA nanodevice selectively targets macrophages to attenuate tumours

C Cui, K Chakraborty, XA Tang, KQ Schoenfelt… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Activating CD8+ T cells by antigen cross-presentation is remarkably effective at eliminating
tumours. Although this function is traditionally attributed to dendritic cells, tumour-associated …

Chemistry can make strict and fuzzy controls for bio-systems: DNA nanoarchitectonics and cell-macromolecular nanoarchitectonics

M Komiyama, K Yoshimoto, M Sisido… - Bulletin of the Chemical …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
In this review, we introduce two kinds of bio-related nanoarchitectonics, DNA
nanoarchitectonics and cell-macromolecular nanoarchitectonics, both of which are basically …

Programmably tiling rigidified DNA brick on gold nanoparticle as multi-functional shell for cancer-targeted delivery of siRNAs

C Xue, S Hu, ZH Gao, L Wang, MX Luo, X Yu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Small interfering RNA (siRNA) is an effective therapeutic to regulate the expression of target
genes in vitro and in vivo. Constructing a siRNA delivery system with high serum stability …