[HTML][HTML] Functionalized liposomes for targeted breast cancer drug delivery

J Nel, K Elkhoury, É Velot, A Bianchi, S Acherar… - Bioactive materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite the exceptional progress in breast cancer pathogenesis, prognosis, diagnosis, and
treatment strategies, it remains a prominent cause of female mortality worldwide …

[HTML][HTML] Ferroptosis and cancer: mitochondria meet the “iron maiden” cell death

AM Battaglia, R Chirillo, I Aversa, A Sacco, F Costanzo… - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Ferroptosis is a new type of oxidative regulated cell death (RCD) driven by iron-dependent
lipid peroxidation. As major sites of iron utilization and master regulators of oxidative …

Lysosome-targeting chimaeras for degradation of extracellular proteins

SM Banik, K Pedram, S Wisnovsky, G Ahn, NM Riley… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The majority of therapies that target individual proteins rely on specific activity-modulating
interactions with the target protein—for example, enzyme inhibition or ligand blocking …

Mitochondria regulation in ferroptosis

H Wang, C Liu, Y Zhao, G Gao - European journal of cell biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Ferroptosis is recognized as a new form of regulated cell death which is initiated by severe
lipid peroxidation relying on reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation and iron overload …

Organelle-level precision with next-generation targeting technologies

A Saminathan, M Zajac, P Anees… - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Intracellular organelles are subsystems within a cell, whose activity and chemical
composition reflect the metabolic state of live cells. Alterations in cellular homeostasis …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging degrader technologies engaging lysosomal pathways

Y Ding, D Xing, Y Fei, B Lu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) provides unprecedented opportunities for drug
discovery. While the proteolysis-targeting chimera (PROTAC) technology has already …

The lipogenic regulator SREBP2 induces transferrin in circulating melanoma cells and suppresses ferroptosis

X Hong, W Roh, RJ Sullivan, KHK Wong, BS Wittner… - Cancer discovery, 2021 - AACR
Circulating tumor cells (CTC) are shed by cancer into the bloodstream, where a viable
subset overcomes oxidative stress to initiate metastasis. We show that single CTCs from …

Ring opening polymerization of α-amino acids: advances in synthesis, architecture and applications of polypeptides and their hybrids

AR Mazo, S Allison-Logan, F Karimi… - Chemical society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Polypeptides have attracted considerable attention in recent decades due to their inherent
biodegradability and tunable cytocompatibility. Macromolecular design in conjunction with …

Recent trends in protein and peptide-based biomaterials for advanced drug delivery

A Varanko, S Saha, A Chilkoti - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Engineering protein and peptide-based materials for drug delivery applications has gained
momentum due to their biochemical and biophysical properties over synthetic materials …

[HTML][HTML] The role of iron in cancer progression

Q Guo, L Li, S Hou, Z Yuan, C Li, W Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Iron is an essential trace element for the human body, and its deficiency or excess can
induce a variety of biological processes. Plenty of evidences have shown that iron …