Streptavidin–biotin technology: improvements and innovations in chemical and biological applications

CM Dundas, D Demonte, S Park - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2013 - Springer
Streptavidin and its homologs (together referred to as streptavidin) are widely used in
molecular science owing to their highly selective and stable interaction with biotin. Other …

Synthetic mimics of biotin/(strept) avidin

W Liu, SK Samanta, BD Smith, L Isaacs - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Biotin/(strept) avidin self-assembly is a powerful platform for nanoscale fabrication and
capture with many different applications in science, medicine, and nanotechnology …

Peptide-encoding mRNA barcodes for the high-throughput in vivo screening of libraries of lipid nanoparticles for mRNA delivery

LH Rhym, RS Manan, A Koller, G Stephanie… - Nature Biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
Developing safe and effective nanoparticles for the delivery of messenger RNA (mRNA) is
slow and expensive, partly due to the lack of predictive power of in vitro screening methods …

[HTML][HTML] Reprogramming macrophages via immune cell mobilized hydrogel microspheres for osteoarthritis treatments

P Xiao, X Han, Y Huang, J Yang, L Chen, Z Cai, N Hu… - Bioactive Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
Regulating macrophage activation precisely is crucial in treating chronic inflammation in
osteoarthritis (OA). However, the stable pro-inflammatory state and deep distribution of …

Cell type-specific delivery by modular envelope design

D Strebinger, CJ Frangieh, MJ Friedrich… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The delivery of genetic cargo remains one of the largest obstacles to the successful
translation of experimental therapies, in large part due to the absence of targetable delivery …

Efficient generation of targeted large insertions by microinjection into two-cell-stage mouse embryos

B Gu, E Posfai, J Rossant - Nature biotechnology, 2018 - nature.com
Rapid, efficient generation of knock-in mice with targeted large insertions remains a major
hurdle in mouse genetics. Here, we describe two-cell homologous recombination (2C-HR) …

Site-specific biotinylation of purified proteins using BirA

M Fairhead, M Howarth - Site-Specific Protein Labeling: Methods and …, 2015 - Springer
The binding between biotin and streptavidin or avidin is one of the strongest known non-
covalent biological interactions. The (strept) avidin-biotin interaction has been widely used …

BacPROTACs mediate targeted protein degradation in bacteria

FE Morreale, S Kleine, J Leodolter, S Junker, DM Hoi… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Hijacking the cellular protein degradation system offers unique opportunities for drug
discovery, as exemplified by proteolysis-targeting chimeras. Despite their great promise for …

Genetically targeted chemical assembly of polymers specifically localized extracellularly to surface membranes of living neurons

A Zhang, KY Loh, CS Kadur, L Michalek, J Dou… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Multicellular biological systems, particularly living neural networks, exhibit highly complex
organization properties that pose difficulties for building cell-specific biocompatible …

Site-specific protein labeling and generation of defined ubiquitin-protein conjugates using an asparaginyl endopeptidase

M Fottner, J Heimgartner, M Gantz… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Asparaginyl endopeptidases (AEPs) have recently been widely utilized for peptide and
protein modification. Labeling is however restricted to protein termini, severely limiting …