Self‐assembling peptide‐based hydrogels for wound tissue repair

T Guan, J Li, C Chen, Y Liu - Advanced Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Wound healing is a long‐term, multistage biological process that includes hemostasis,
inflammation, proliferation, and tissue remodeling and requires intelligent designs to provide …

Strategies employed in the design of antimicrobial peptides with enhanced proteolytic stability

Z Lai, X Yuan, H Chen, Y Zhu, N Dong, A Shan - Biotechnology Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the alarming developing rate of multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens, the
development and modification of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are unprecedentedly active …

Advances of peptides for antibacterial applications

Y Yan, Y Li, Z Zhang, X Wang, Y Niu, S Zhang… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the past few decades, peptide antibacterial products with unique antibacterial
mechanisms have attracted widespread interest. They can effectively reduce the probability …

Supramolecular hydrogelators and hydrogels: from soft matter to molecular biomaterials

X Du, J Zhou, J Shi, B Xu - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
In this review we intend to provide a relatively comprehensive summary of the work of
supramolecular hydrogelators after 2004 and to put emphasis particularly on the …

Self-assembling dipeptide antibacterial nanostructures with membrane disrupting activity

L Schnaider, S Brahmachari, NW Schmidt… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Peptide-based supramolecular assemblies are a promising class of nanomaterials with
important biomedical applications, specifically in drug delivery and tissue regeneration …

Halogenation as a tool to tune antimicrobial activity of peptoids

N Molchanova, JE Nielsen, KB Sørensen… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Antimicrobial peptides have attracted considerable interest as potential new class of
antibiotics against multi-drug resistant bacteria. However, their therapeutic potential is …

Extracellular matrix‐based strategies for immunomodulatory biomaterials engineering

AT Rowley, RR Nagalla, SW Wang… - Advanced healthcare …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a complex and dynamic structural scaffold for cells within
tissues and plays an important role in regulating cell function. Recently it has become …

Stability of nanopeptides: structure and molecular exchange of self-assembled peptide fibers

N König, SM Szostak, JE Nielsen, M Dunbar… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Often nanostructures formed by self-assembly of small molecules based on hydrophobic
interactions are rather unstable, causing morphological changes or even dissolution when …

Nanostructured antimicrobial peptides: crucial steps of overcoming the bottleneck for clinics

Z Yang, S He, H Wu, T Yin, L Wang… - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The security issue of human health is faced with dispiriting threats from multidrug-resistant
bacteria infections induced by the abuse and misuse of antibiotics. Over decades, the …

A new hope: self-assembling peptides with antimicrobial activity

L Lombardi, A Falanga, V Del Genio, S Galdiero - Pharmaceutics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Peptide drugs hold great promise for the treatment of infectious diseases thanks to their
novel mechanisms of action, low toxicity, high specificity, and ease of synthesis and …