Synthetic extracellular matrices with function-encoding peptides

C Ligorio, A Mata - Nature reviews bioengineering, 2023 - nature.com
The communication of cells with their surroundings is mostly encoded in the epitopes of
structural and signalling proteins present in the extracellular matrix (ECM). These peptide …

Designing biomaterials with immunomodulatory properties for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

JI Andorko, CM Jewell - Bioengineering & translational …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research in the vaccine and immunotherapy fields has revealed that biomaterials
have the ability to activate immune pathways, even in the absence of other immune …

[HTML][HTML] Peptide-based supramolecular vaccine systems

CL O'Neill, PC Shrimali, ZE Clapacs, MA Files… - Acta biomaterialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Currently approved replication-competent and inactivated vaccines are limited by excessive
reactogenicity and poor safety profiles, while subunit vaccines are often insufficiently …

Self-assembly of block heterochiral peptides into helical tapes

TM Clover, CL O'Neill, R Appavu… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Patterned substitution of d-amino acids into the primary sequences of self-assembling
peptides influences molecular-level packing and supramolecular morphology. We report …

The influence of component structural arrangement on peptide vaccine immunogenicity

N Alharbi, M Skwarczynski, I Toth - Biotechnology Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
Peptide-based subunit vaccines utilise minimal immunogenic components (ie peptides) to
generate highly specific immune responses, without triggering adverse reactions. However …

Enabling sublingual peptide immunization with molecular self-assemblies

SH Kelly, Y Wu, AK Varadhan, EJ Curvino, AS Chong… - Biomaterials, 2020 - Elsevier
Short peptides are poorly immunogenic when delivered sublingually–under the tongue.
Nanomaterial delivery of peptides could be utilized to improve immunogenicity towards …

D-amino acid-containing supramolecular nanofibers for potential cancer therapeutics

H Wang, Z Feng, B Xu - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Nanostructures formed by peptides that self-assemble in water through non-covalent
interactions have attracted considerable attention because peptides possess several unique …

Biomaterial strategies for generating therapeutic immune responses

SH Kelly, LS Shores, NL Votaw, JH Collier - Advanced drug delivery …, 2017 - Elsevier
Biomaterials employed to raise therapeutic immune responses have become a complex and
active field. Historically, vaccines have been developed primarily to fight infectious diseases …

Supramolecular biomaterials for enhanced cancer immunotherapy

H Zhang, J Zhu, T Fang, M Li, G Chen… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Cancer immunotherapy has achieved promising clinical results. However, many limitations
associated with current cancer immunotherapy still exist, including low response rates and …

Insight into the Interaction of antitubercular and anticancer compound Clofazimine with Human Serum Albumin: spectroscopy and molecular modelling

MR Ajmal, N Zaidi, P Alam, S Nusrat… - Journal of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The binding of clofazimine to human serum albumin (HSA) was investigated by applying
optical spectroscopy and molecular docking methods. Fluorescence quenching data …