Polymeric delivery of therapeutic nucleic acids

R Kumar, CF Santa Chalarca, MR Bockman… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The advent of genome editing has transformed the therapeutic landscape for several
debilitating diseases, and the clinical outlook for gene therapeutics has never been more …

PAMAM dendrimers as efficient drug and gene delivery nanosystems for cancer therapy

F Abedi-Gaballu, G Dehghan, M Ghaffari, R Yekta… - Applied materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
Drug delivery systems for cancer chemotherapy are employed to improve the effectiveness
and decrease the side-effects of highly toxic drugs. Most chemotherapy agents have …

Molecular dynamics and multi-spectroscopic of the interaction behavior between bladder cancer cells and calf thymus DNA with rebeccamycin: apoptosis through the …

Z Malek-Esfandiari, A Rezvani-Noghani, T Sohrabi… - Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
The interaction of Rebeccamycin with calf thymus (ctDNA) in the absence and presence of
H1 was investigated by molecular dynamics, multi-spectroscopic, and cellular techniques …

Evaluation of the binding effect and cytotoxicity assay of 2‐Ethyl‐5‐(4‐methylphenyl) pyramido pyrazole ophthalazine trione on calf thymus DNA: spectroscopic …

N Marjani, M Dareini, M Asadzade‐Lotfabad… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
With advances in new drug therapies, it is essential to understand the interactions between
drugs and target molecules. In this study, we applied multiple spectroscopic techniques …

Molecular spectroscopy evidence of berberine binding to DNA: comparative binding and thermodynamic profile of intercalation

XL Li, YJ Hu, H Wang, BQ Yu, HL Yue - Biomacromolecules, 2012 - ACS Publications
Berberine (BH) is an important traditional medicinal herb endowed with diverse
pharmacological and biological activities. In this work, the binding characteristics and …

On-Demand Aligned DNA Hydrogel Via Light Scanning

J Kim, YS Choi, G Park, M Kim, JS Myung, WJ Choi… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
DNA is an anisotropic, water-attracting, and biocompatible material, an ideal building block
for hydrogel. The alignment of the anisotropic DNA chains is essential to maximize hydrogel …

Modifications of quinolones and fluoroquinolones: hybrid compounds and dual-action molecules

J Fedorowicz, J Sączewski - Monatshefte für Chemie-Chemical Monthly, 2018 - Springer
This review is aimed to provide extensive survey of quinolones and fluoroquinolones for a
variety of applications ranging from metal complexes and nanoparticle development to …

Changes in the infrared microspectroscopic characteristics of DNA caused by cationic elements, different base richness and single-stranded form

MLS Mello, BC Vidal - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background The infrared (IR) analysis of dried samples of DNA and DNA-polypeptide
complexes is still scarce. Here we have studied the FT-IR profiles of these components to …

Recent progress in gene therapy to deliver nucleic acids with multivalent cationic vectors

E Junquera, E Aicart - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2016 - Elsevier
Due to the potential use as transfecting agents of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA), multivalent
cationic non-viral vectors have received special attention in the last decade. Much effort has …

Highly selective mitochondrial targeting by a ruthenium (II) peptide conjugate: imaging and photoinduced damage of mitochondrial DNA

CS Burke, A Byrne, TE Keyes - Angewandte Chemie, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) plays a crucial but incompletely understood role in cellular
biochemistry and etiology of numerous disease states. Thus, there is an urgent need for …