Enzymatic noncovalent synthesis

H He, W Tan, J Guo, M Yi, AN Shy, B Xu - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Enzymatic reactions and noncovalent (ie, supramolecular) interactions are two fundamental
nongenetic attributes of life. Enzymatic noncovalent synthesis (ENS) refers to a process …

Enzyme-instructed peptide assembly favored by preorganization for cancer cell membrane engineering

Y Ding, D Zheng, L Xie, X Zhang, Z Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Innovative methods for engineering cancer cell membranes promise to manipulate cell–cell
interactions and boost cell-based cancer therapeutics. Here, we illustrate an in situ …

A cooperation tale of biomolecules and nanomaterials in nanoscale chiral sensing and separation

T Hong, W Zhou, S Tan, Z Cai - Nanoscale Horizons, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The cooperation relation between biomolecules and nanomaterials makes up a beautiful
tale about nanoscale chiral sensing and separation. Biomolecules are considered a …

Membrane-bound supramolecular nanofiber network stimulates transient receptor potential channels for calcium overload cancer therapy

Z Zhang, X Sun, Y Ding, X Zhang, Y Zhang, T Zhang… - Nano Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Calcium (Ca 2+) overload therapy is an efficient cancer treatment modality that
increases aberrant cytoplasmic Ca 2+ accumulation and activates mitochondrial apoptotic …

A cascade‐targeted enzyme‐instructed peptide self‐assembly strategy for cancer immunotherapy through boosting immunogenic cell death

L Xie, Y Ding, X Zhang, Z Zhang, S Zeng… - Small …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Immunogenic cell death (ICD) approaches by encumbering mitochondrial functions provide
great promise for the treatment of malignant tumors, but these kinds of ICD strategies are still …

Less is More: Preorganization leads to better tumor retention and therapeutic efficacy

L Xie, Y Ding, Y Wang, X Li, Z Yang… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Protein preorganization is ubiquitous in nature and enables subtle structural
rearrangements and precise function executions, making it an attractive approach for …

Engineering of antimicrobial peptide fibrils with feedback degradation of bacterial-secreted enzymes

F Wang, W Xia, M Zhang, R Wu, X Song, Y Hao… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Proteins and peptides can assemble into functional amyloid fibrils with distinct architectures.
These amyloid fibrils can fulfil various biological functions in living organisms, and then be …

[HTML][HTML] Encapsulation of LXR ligand by D-Nap-GFFY hydrogel enhances anti-tumorigenic actions of LXR and removes LXR-induced lipogenesis

K Feng, C Ma, Y Liu, X Yang, Z Yang, Y Chen, T Xu… - Theranostics, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background and purpose: Activation of liver X receptor (LXR) by its ligand T0901317 (T317)
enhances interferon-γ (IFNγ) production to inhibit tumor growth. However, induction of …

An activatable fluorescent prodrug of paclitaxel and BODIPY

J Xia, Q Pei, M Zheng, Z Xie - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Chemotherapy benefits can be greatly boosted by developing multifunctional prodrug
nanoplatforms with high drug loading and spatially and temporally regulated drug release …

Preorganization boosts the artificial esterase activity of a self-assembling peptide

Y Chen, W Zhang, Y Ding, C Liang, Y Shi, ZW Hu… - Science China …, 2021 - Springer
The creation of artificial enzymes to mimic natural enzymes remains a great challenge owing
to the complexity of the structural arrangement of the essential amino acids in catalytic …