Overcoming barriers in photodynamic therapy harnessing nano-formulation strategies

J Xie, Y Wang, W Choi, P Jangili, Y Ge, Y Xu… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has been extensively investigated for decades for tumor
treatment because of its non-invasiveness, spatiotemporal selectivity, lower side-effects, and …

Multifunctional biomolecule nanostructures for cancer therapy

J Wang, Y Li, G Nie - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Biomolecule-based nanostructures are inherently multifunctional and harbour diverse
biological activities, which can be explored for cancer nanomedicine. The supramolecular …

Protein assembly by design

J Zhu, N Avakyan, A Kakkis, AM Hoffnagle… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Proteins are nature's primary building blocks for the construction of sophisticated molecular
machines and dynamic materials, ranging from protein complexes such as photosystem II …

Molecularly stimuli-responsive self-assembled peptide nanoparticles for targeted imaging and therapy

Y Zhou, Q Li, Y Wu, X Li, Y Zhou, Z Wang, H Liang… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Self-assembly has emerged as an extensively used method for constructing biomaterials
with sizes ranging from nanometers to micrometers. Peptides have been extensively …

DNA origami: scaffolds for creating higher order structures

F Hong, F Zhang, Y Liu, H Yan - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
DNA has become one of the most extensively used molecular building blocks for
engineering self-assembling materials. DNA origami is a technique that uses hundreds of …

Peptide self-assembly: thermodynamics and kinetics

J Wang, K Liu, R Xing, X Yan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-assembling systems play a significant role in physiological functions and have therefore
attracted tremendous attention due to their great potential for applications in energy …

Self‐assembled peptide‐and protein‐based nanomaterials for antitumor photodynamic and photothermal therapy

M Abbas, Q Zou, S Li, X Yan - Advanced materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Tremendous interest in self‐assembly of peptides and proteins towards functional
nanomaterials has been inspired by naturally evolving self‐assembly in biological …

Multifunctional self-assembled peptide hydrogels for biomedical applications

M Sedighi, N Shrestha, Z Mahmoudi, Z Khademi… - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Self-assembly is a growth mechanism in nature to apply local interactions forming a
minimum energy structure. Currently, self-assembled materials are considered for …

De novo protein design, a retrospective

IV Korendovych, WF DeGrado - Quarterly reviews of biophysics, 2020 - cambridge.org
Proteins are molecular machines whose function depends on their ability to achieve
complex folds with precisely defined structural and dynamic properties. The rational design …

Supramolecular photothermal nanomaterials as an emerging paradigm toward precision cancer therapy

L Zhao, Y Liu, R Chang, R Xing… - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of the “supramolecular photothermal effects” refers to the collection property
and photothermal conversion efficiency resulting from the supramolecular assembly of …