Carbohydrate-based macromolecular biomaterials

L Su, Y Feng, K Wei, X Xu, R Liu, G Chen - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Carbohydrates are the most abundant and one of the most important biomacromolecules in
Nature. Except for energy-related compounds, carbohydrates can be roughly divided into …

Tumor microenvironment signaling and therapeutics in cancer progression

A Goenka, F Khan, B Verma, P Sinha… - Cancer …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tumor development and metastasis are facilitated by the complex interactions between
cancer cells and their microenvironment, which comprises stromal cells and extracellular …

Targeting the Siglec–sialic acid axis promotes antitumor immune responses in preclinical models of glioblastoma

P Schmassmann, J Roux, A Buck, N Tatari… - Science translational …, 2023 - science.org
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive form of primary brain tumor, for which effective
therapies are urgently needed. Cancer cells are capable of evading clearance by …

Ligand‐installed nanocarriers toward precision therapy

P Mi, H Cabral, K Kataoka - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Development of drug‐delivery systems that selectively target neoplastic cells has
been a major goal of nanomedicine. One major strategy for achieving this milestone is to …

Aberrant sialylation in cancer: therapeutic opportunities

J Munkley - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary All cells are covered in a thick layer of sugar molecules known as glycans.
Changes to this sugar coat are common in cancer, and in particular cancer cells often …

Siglecs-7/9 function as inhibitory immune checkpoints in vivo and can be targeted to enhance therapeutic antitumor immunity

I Ibarlucea-Benitez, P Weitzenfeld… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Given the role of myeloid cells in T cell activation and in the antitumor response, targeting
checkpoint molecules expressed on this population represents a promising strategy to …

Exploration of the sialic acid world

R Schauer, JP Kamerling - Advances in carbohydrate chemistry and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Sialic acids are cytoprotectors, mainly localized on the surface of cell membranes with
multiple and outstanding cell biological functions. The history of their structural analysis …

Altered cell adhesion and glycosylation promote cancer immune suppression and metastasis

H Läubli, L Borsig - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Cell-cell interactions and cell adhesion are key mediators of cancer progression and
facilitate hallmarks of cancer including immune evasion and metastatic dissemination. Many …

Spatial imaging of glycoRNA in single cells with ARPLA

Y Ma, W Guo, Q Mou, X Shao, M Lyu, V Garcia… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Little is known about the biological roles of glycosylated RNAs (glycoRNAs), a recently
discovered class of glycosylated molecules, because of a lack of visualization methods. We …

The chemistry of boronic acids in nanomaterials for drug delivery

A Stubelius, S Lee, A Almutairi - Accounts of chemical research, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Interest in increasing drug delivery efficiency has risen over the past decade
both as a means to improve efficacy of already clinically available drugs and due to the …