Self‐assembling peptide as a potential carrier for hydrophobic anticancer drug ellipticine: complexation, release and in vitro delivery

SY Fung, H Yang, PT Bhola… - Advanced functional …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The self‐assembling peptide EAK16‐II is capable of stabilizing hydrophobic compounds to
form microcrystal suspensions in aqueous solution. Here, the ability of this peptide to …

[HTML][HTML] Sequence Effect of Self-Assembling Peptides on the Complexation and In Vitro Delivery of the Hydrophobic Anticancer Drug Ellipticine

SY Fung, H Yang, P Chen - PLoS One, 2008 - journals.plos.org
A special class of self-assembling peptides has been found to be capable of stabilizing the
hydrophobic anticancer agent ellipticine in aqueous solution. Here we study the effect of …

Self-assembling peptide-based nanoparticles enhance anticancer effect of ellipticine in vitro and in vivo

Y Wu, P Sadatmousavi, R Wang, S Lu… - International journal …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Background and methods Applications of the anticancer agent, ellipticine, have been limited
by its hydrophobicity and toxicity. An efficient delivery system is required to exploit the …

Release of hydrophobic anticancer drug from a newly designed self-assembling peptide

M Wu, Z Ye, Y Liu, B Liu, X Zhao - Molecular BioSystems, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
A newly designed self-assembling peptide, P4 (Ac-NH-LDLKLELKLDLKLELK-CONH2),
capable of stabilizing hydrophobic compounds in aqueous solution has been discovered …

Molecular binding of self-assembling peptide EAK16-II with anticancer agent EPT and its implication in cancer cell inhibition

S Lu, H Wang, Y Sheng, M Liu, P Chen - Journal of controlled release, 2012 - Elsevier
The current drug delivery techniques involve encapsulation, targeting and controlled release
of the drug with various molecules or nanoparticles, but rarely has the drug molecular state …

Self-assembling peptide-based nanoparticles enhance cellular delivery of the hydrophobic anticancer drug ellipticine through caveolae-dependent endocytosis

R Bawa, SY Fung, A Shiozaki, H Yang, G Zheng… - … , Biology and Medicine, 2012 - Elsevier
A special class of self-assembling peptide (EAK16-II) has been found to stabilize the
hydrophobic anticancer agent ellipticine (EPT) in aqueous solution. In this study, the …

Formation of colloidal suspension of hydrophobic compounds with an amphiphilic self-assembling peptide

SY Fung, H Yang, P Chen - Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 2007 - Elsevier
The amphiphilic self-assembling peptide EAK16-II was found to be able to stabilize
hydrophobic compounds in aqueous solution. Micro/nanocrystals of a hydrophobic …

Histidine-rich cell-penetrating peptide for cancer drug delivery and its uptake mechanism

L Zhang, J Xu, F Wang, Y Ding, T Wang, G Jin… - Langmuir, 2019 - ACS Publications
In this work, we report a drug delivery system based on the pH-responsive self-assembly
and-disassembly behaviors of peptides. Here, a systematically designed histidine-rich …

Self-assembly mechanism of a peptide-based drug delivery vehicle

G Pandit, K Roy, U Agarwal, S Chatterjee - ACS omega, 2018 - ACS Publications
We report the mechanism of the concentration-dependent self-assembly of a tetrapeptide.
Peptide Boc-Trp-Leu-Trp-Leu-OMe self-assembles to form discrete nanospheres at a low …

Self-assembling peptide as a potential carrier of hydrophobic compounds

C Keyes, J Duhamel, SY Fung, J Bezaire… - Journal of the …, 2004 - ACS Publications
Microcrystals of a hydrophobic cargo were stabilized by EAK16 II, a self-assembling
oligopeptide, and suspended in aqueous solution. Pyrene was used as a model …