Chiral self-assembly of peptides: Toward the design of supramolecular polymers with enhanced chemical and biological functions

Y Shen, Y Wang, IW Hamley, W Qi, R Su… - Progress in Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Chirality is one of the most important structural features in biological systems. Peptides, as a
class of small biomolecules, can self-assemble into various chiral supramolecular polymers …

Recent applications of retro-inverso peptides

N Doti, M Mardirossian, A Sandomenico… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Natural and de novo designed peptides are gaining an ever-growing interest as drugs
against several diseases. Their use is however limited by the intrinsic low bioavailability and …

Peptide-22 and cyclic RGD functionalized liposomes for glioma targeting drug delivery overcoming BBB and BBTB

C Chen, Z Duan, Y Yuan, R Li, L Pang… - … applied materials & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Chemotherapy outcomes for the treatment of glioma remain unsatisfied due to the inefficient
drug transport across BBB/BBTB and poor drug accumulation in the tumor site. Nanocarriers …

The recent advance of cell-penetrating and tumor-targeting peptides as drug delivery systems based on tumor microenvironment

Q Zhang, N Liu, J Wang, Y Liu, K Wang… - Molecular …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cancer has become the primary reason for industrial countries death. Although first-line
treatments have achieved remarkable results in inhibiting tumors, they could have serious …

Chiral-engineered supraparticles: Emerging tools for drug delivery

M Rahman, WH Almalki, O Afzal, ASA Altamimi… - Drug Discovery …, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Molecular chirality recognized in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.•
Supramolecular polymers (SPs) are excellent systems in biological system assembly.•Chiral …

Liposome-based glioma targeted drug delivery enabled by stable peptide ligands

X Wei, J Gao, C Zhan, C Xie, Z Chai, D Ran… - Journal of Controlled …, 2015 - Elsevier
The treatment of glioma is one of the most challenging tasks in clinic. As an intracranial
tumor, glioma exhibits many distinctive characteristics from other tumors. In particular …

[HTML][HTML] Dual receptor recognizing cell penetrating peptide for selective targeting, efficient intratumoral diffusion and synthesized anti-glioma therapy

Y Liu, L Mei, C Xu, Q Yu, K Shi, L Zhang, Y Wang… - Theranostics, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cell penetrating peptides (CPPs) were widely used for drug delivery to tumor. However, the
nonselective in vivo penetration greatly limited the application of CPPs-mediated drug …

Retro-Inverso Isomer of Angiopep-2: A Stable d-Peptide Ligand Inspires Brain-Targeted Drug Delivery

X Wei, C Zhan, X Chen, J Hou, C Xie… - Molecular …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) prevents most drugs from reaching the site of central nervous
system (CNS) diseases, intensively confining the therapeutic efficiency. Angiopep-2 (here …

Cell-penetrating peptides in oncologic pharmacotherapy: A review

N Vale, D Duarte, S Silva, AS Correia, B Costa… - Pharmacological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the world and its treatment is extremely
challenging, mainly due to its complexity. Cell-Penetrating Peptides (CPPs) are peptides …

Construction of lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticle-Uelx Europaeus Agglutinin-I bioconjugates with brightness red emission for ultrasensitive in vivo …

R Tian, S Zhao, G Liu, H Chen, L Ma, H You, C Liu… - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs)-based active targeting optical
bioimaging has attracted tremendous scientific interest because of its noninvasive real-time …