Histidine as a key modulator of molecular self-assembly: Peptide-based supramolecular materials inspired by biological systems

Y Chen, K Tao, W Ji, VB Kumar, S Rencus-Lazar… - Materials Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Histidine, a versatile proteinogenic amino acid, plays a broad range of roles in all living
organisms and behaves as a key mediator of the interactions of biomolecules with inorganic …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging silk fibroin materials and their applications: new functionality arising from innovations in silk crosslinking

HA Tran, TT Hoang, A Maraldo, TN Do, DL Kaplan… - Materials Today, 2023 - Elsevier
The ability to reverse engineer the silkworm fiber has led to tremendous advancements in
the field of silk materials over the last several decades, with silk fibroin materials applied to …

Light‐activated decellularized extracellular matrix‐based bioinks for volumetric tissue analogs at the centimeter scale

H Kim, B Kang, X Cui, SH Lee, K Lee… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Tissue engineering requires not only tissue‐specific functionality but also a realistic scale.
Decellularized extracellular matrix (dECM) is presently applied to the extrusion‐based 3D …

Peptide‐based coacervate‐core vesicles with semipermeable membranes

M Abbas, JO Law, SN Grellscheid… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Coacervates droplets have long been considered as potential protocells to mimic living
cells. However, these droplets lack a membrane and are prone to coalescence, limiting their …

Phase-separating peptide coacervates with programmable material properties for universal intracellular delivery of macromolecules

Y Sun, X Wu, J Li, M Radiom, R Mezzenga… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Phase-separating peptides (PSPs) self-assembling into coacervate microdroplets (CMs) are
a promising class of intracellular delivery vehicles that can release macromolecular …

Self‐assembled peptide‐based nanodrugs: molecular design, synthesis, functionalization, and targeted tumor bioimaging and biotherapy

X Luan, H Kong, P He, G Yang, D Zhu, L Guo, G Wei - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Functional nanomaterials as nanodrugs based on the self‐assembly of inorganics,
polymers, and biomolecules have showed wide applications in biomedicine and tissue …

Molecular crowding: the history and development of a scientific paradigm

C Alfano, Y Fichou, K Huber, M Weiss, E Spruijt… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
It is now generally accepted that macromolecules do not act in isolation but “live” in a
crowded environment, that is, an environment populated by numerous different molecules …

Reactive oxygen species-responsive transformable and triple-targeting butylphthalide nanotherapy for precision treatment of ischemic stroke by normalizing the …

Q Yang, W Pu, K Hu, Y Hu, Z Feng, J Cai, C Li, L Li… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
High potency and safe therapies are still required for ischemic stroke, which is a leading
cause of global death and disability. Herein, a reactive oxygen species (ROS)-responsive …

[HTML][HTML] Strategies for improving the 3D printability of decellularized extracellular matrix bioink

H Zhang, Y Wang, Z Zheng, X Wei, L Chen, Y Wu… - Theranostics, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract 3D bioprinting is a revolutionary technology capable of replicating native tissue and
organ microenvironments by precisely placing cells into 3D structures using bioinks …

Self-propelled assembly of nanoparticles with self-catalytic regulation for tumour-specific imaging and therapy

M Xia, Q Wang, Y Liu, C Fang, B Zhang, S Yang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Targeted assembly of nanoparticles in biological systems holds great promise for disease-
specific imaging and therapy. However, the current manipulation of nanoparticle dynamics is …