Emerging non-viral vectors for gene delivery

C Wang, C Pan, H Yong, F Wang, T Bo, Y Zhao… - Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Gene therapy holds great promise for treating a multitude of inherited and acquired diseases
by delivering functional genes, comprising DNA or RNA, into targeted cells or tissues to elicit …

Surface-engineered dendrimers in gene delivery

J Yang, Q Zhang, H Chang, Y Cheng - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
1. DENDRIMERS AND GENE DELIVERY Gene therapy represents a promising option for
the treatment of diseases such as inherited disorders, viral infections, and cancers. 1− 3 A …

Transferrin receptor-targeted theranostic gold nanoparticles for photosensitizer delivery in brain tumors

S Dixit, T Novak, K Miller, Y Zhu, ME Kenney… - Nanoscale, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Therapeutic drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) is not only inefficient, but also
nonspecific to brain stroma. These are major limitations in the effective treatment of brain …

The transition from linear to highly branched poly (β-amino ester) s: Branching matters for gene delivery

D Zhou, L Cutlar, Y Gao, W Wang, J O'Keeffe-Ahern… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
Nonviral gene therapy holds great promise but has not delivered treatments for clinical
application to date. Lack of safe and efficient gene delivery vectors is the major hurdle …

Highly branched poly (β-amino ester) delivery of minicircle DNA for transfection of neurodegenerative disease related cells

S Liu, Y Gao, D Zhou, M Zeng, F Alshehri… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Current therapies for most neurodegenerative disorders are only symptomatic in nature and
do not change the course of the disease. Gene therapy plays an important role in disease …

Highly branched poly (β-amino ester) s for skin gene therapy

D Zhou, Y Gao, A Aied, L Cutlar, O Igoucheva… - Journal of Controlled …, 2016 - Elsevier
Poly (β-amino ester) s (PAEs) have emerged as a promising class of gene delivery vectors
with performances that can even be compared to viruses. However, all of the transfection …

Disulfide-containing monomers in chain-growth polymerization

M Pięta, VB Purohit, J Pietrasik, CM Plummer - Polymer Chemistry, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Due to the significance of disulfide bonds within modern material and medicinal sciences,
much attention has been paid to the synthesis of disulfide-containing polymers. Within this …

Highly branched poly (β-amino esters): Synthesis and application in gene delivery

L Cutlar, D Zhou, Y Gao, T Zhao, U Greiser… - …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Highly branched poly (β-amino esters)(HPAEs) are developed via a facile and controllable
“A2+ B3/B2” strategy successfully. As nonviral gene delivery vectors, the performance of …

Iminopyrrole‐Based Self‐Assembly: A Route to Intrinsically Flexible Molecular Links and Knots

A Sarwa, A Białońska, M Sobieraj… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The use of 2, 5‐diformylpyrrole in self‐assembly reactions with diamines and Zn
(II)/Cd (II) salts allowed the preparation of [2] catenane, trefoil knot, and Borromean rings …

Histidine-rich stabilized polyplexes for cMet-directed tumor-targeted gene transfer

P Kos, U Lächelt, A Herrmann, FM Mickler, M Döblinger… - Nanoscale, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Overexpression of the hepatocyte growth factor receptor/c-Met proto oncogene on the
surface of a variety of tumor cells gives an opportunity to specifically target cancerous …