Polysarcosine-containing copolymers: Synthesis, characterization, self-assembly, and applications

A Birke, J Ling, M Barz - Progress in Polymer Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Although the first polysarcosine (pSar) synthesis by Wesseley et al. was reported almost a
century ago, it was only recently that pSar gained broader attention and is considered a …

Polypeptoid polymers: Synthesis, characterization, and properties

BA Chan, S Xuan, A Li, JM Simpson… - Polymers for …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Polypeptoids, a class of peptidomimetic polymers, have emerged at the forefront of
macromolecular and supramolecular science and engineering as the technological …

Solution properties of polysarcosine: from absolute and relative molar mass determinations to complement activation

B Weber, A Birke, K Fischer, M Schmidt, M Barz - Macromolecules, 2018 - ACS Publications
Polysarcosine (pSar) was one of the first polymers synthesized in a controlled living manner,
but it was only recently when it was reconsidered as a promising alternative for poly …

Bioactive poly (amino acid) s for multi‐modal cancer therapy

G Yang, J Ding, X Chen - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The interplay between the tumor cells and their microenvironments is as inseparable as the
relationship between “seeds” and “soil.” The tumor microenvironments (TMEs) exacerbate …

Biodegradable polysarcosine with inserted alanine residues: Synthesis and enzymolysis

P Zhou, T Shen, W Chen, J Sun, J Ling - Biomacromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
Polysarcosine (PSar), a water-soluble polypeptoid, is gifted with biodegradability via the
random ring-opening copolymerization of sarcosine-and alanine-N-thiocarboxyanhydrides …

Biological applications of water-soluble polypeptides with ordered secondary structures

C Ge, H Ye, F Wu, J Zhu, Z Song, Y Liu… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Water-soluble polypeptides are a class of synthetic polymers with peptide bond frameworks
imitating natural proteins and have broad prospects in biological applications. The …

Fe3+@polyDOPA-b-polysarcosine, a T1-Weighted MRI Contrast Agent via Controlled NTA Polymerization

Y Miao, F Xie, J Cen, F Zhou, X Tao, J Luo… - ACS Macro …, 2018 - ACS Publications
α-Amino acid N-thiocarboxyanhydrides (NTAs) are promising cyclic monomers to synthesize
polypeptides and polypeptoids via controlled ring-opening polymerizations. Superior to N …

A Review on the Synthesis of Polypeptoids

Z Qiu, M Zhang, D Liu, X Shen, W Zhou, W Liu, J Lu… - Catalysts, 2023 - mdpi.com
Polyeptoids are a promising class of polypeptide mimetic biopolymers based on N-
substituted glycine backbones. Because of the high designability of their side chains …

α-Amino acid N-thiocarboxyanhydrides: A novel synthetic approach toward poly (α-amino acid) s

X Tao, MH Li, J Ling - European Polymer Journal, 2018 - Elsevier
Poly (α-amino acid) s, containing amino acid repeat units, are remarkable biomaterials with
similar structures to protein, which are mainly synthesized by solid phase peptide synthesis …

Chemoselective polymerizations

N Zhu, X Hu, Z Fang, K Guo - Progress in Polymer Science, 2021 - Elsevier
More and more controlled polymerization methodologies have been developed in the last
decades. However, great challenges still remain in chemoselective polymerizations for …