Nucleic acid drug vectors for diagnosis and treatment of brain diseases

ZG Lu, J Shen, J Yang, JW Wang, RC Zhao… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Nucleic acid drugs have the advantages of rich target selection, simple in design, good and
enduring effect. They have been demonstrated to have irreplaceable superiority in brain …

Chemically designed nanoscale materials for controlling cellular processes

K Debnath, S Pal, NR Jana - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Nanoparticles are widely used in various biomedical applications as drug
delivery carriers, imaging probes, single-molecule tracking/detection probes, artificial …

Phase-separating peptides for direct cytosolic delivery and redox-activated release of macromolecular therapeutics

Y Sun, SY Lau, ZW Lim, SC Chang, F Ghadessy… - Nature Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Biomacromolecules are highly promising therapeutic modalities to treat various diseases.
However, they suffer from poor cellular membrane permeability, limiting their access to …

Targeted nanomedicine: lessons learned and future directions

N Veiga, Y Diesendruck, D Peer - Journal of Controlled Release, 2023 - Elsevier
Designing a therapeutic modality that will reach a certain organ, tissue, or cell type is crucial
for both the therapeutic efficiency and to limit off-target adverse effects. Nanoparticles …

Fluorinated Lipid Nanoparticles for Enhancing mRNA Delivery Efficiency

H Zhang, C Meng, X Yi, J Han, J Wang, F Liu, Q Ling… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs), a nonviral nucleic acid delivery system, have shown vast
potential for vaccine development and disease treatment. LNPs assist mRNA to cross …

Targeting lipid rafts—a potential therapy for COVID-19

D Sviridov, YI Miller, RA Ballout, AT Remaley… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
COVID-19 is a global pandemic currently in an acute phase of rapid expansion. While public
health measures remain the most effective protection strategy at this stage, when the peak …

Impact of Macrophages on the Interaction of Cetuximab-Functionalized Polyelectrolyte Capsules with EGFR-Expressing Cancer Cells

G Nifontova, D Kalenichenko, I Kriukova… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Polyelectrolyte capsules (PCs) are a promising tool for anticancer drug delivery and tumor
targeting. Surface functionalization of PCs with antibodies is widely used for providing their …

Cytotoxicity of ZnO nanoparticles under dark conditions via oxygen vacancy dependent reactive oxygen species generation

A Biswas, U Kar, NR Jana - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The antimicrobial and cytotoxic effects of zinc oxide nanomaterials are popularly thought to
be occurring due to zinc ion leaching, but the exact mechanism of cytotoxicity is …

Arginine Surface Density of Nanoparticles Controls Nonendocytic Cell Uptake and Autophagy Induction

R Ray, S Ghosh, A Maity, NR Jana - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Nonendocytic cell uptake of nanomaterials is challenging, which requires specific surface
chemistry and smaller particle size. Earlier works have shown that an arginine-terminated …

Direct Cytosolic Delivery of Proteins and CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing by Gemini Amphiphiles via Non-Endocytic Translocation Pathways

Z Le, Q Pan, Z He, H Liu, Y Shi, L Liu, Z Liu… - ACS Central …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Intracellular delivery of therapeutic biomacromolecules is often challenged by the poor
transmembrane and limited endosomal escape. Here, we establish a combinatorial library …