Targeted protein degradation directly engaging lysosomes or proteasomes

J Kim, I Byun, H Joh, HJ Kim, MJ Lee - Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Targeted protein degradation (TPD) has been established as a viable alternative to
attenuate the function of a specific protein of interest in both biological and clinical contexts …

Development of nucleic acid medicines based on chemical technology

Y Kawamoto, Y Wu, Y Takahashi, Y Takakura - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
Oligonucleotide-based therapeutics have attracted attention as an emerging modality that
includes the modulation of genes and their binding proteins related to diseases, allowing us …

Inspired Beyond Nature: Three Decades of Spherical Nucleic Acids and Colloidal Crystal Engineering with DNA

CA Mirkin, SH Petrosko - 2023 - ACS Publications
The conception, synthesis, and invention of a nanostructure, now known as the spherical
nucleic acid, or SNA, in 1996 marked the advent of a new field of chemistry. Over the past …

Dendronized DNA chimeras harness scavenger receptors to degrade cell membrane proteins

C Zhu, W Wang, Y Wang, Y Zhang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bispecific chimeras bridging cell membrane proteins with lysosome‐trafficking receptors
(LTRs) provide an effective therapeutic approach through lysosomal degradation of disease …

Molecular DNA dendron vaccines

ME Distler, JP Cavaliere… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
A foundational principle of rational vaccinology is that vaccine structure plays a critical role
in determining therapeutic efficacy, but in order to establish fundamental, effective, and …

A general DNA-gated hydrogel strategy for selective transport of chemical and biological cargos

Y Gu, ME Distler, HF Cheng, C Huang… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The selective transport of molecular cargo is critical in many biological and
chemical/materials processes and applications. Although nature has evolved highly efficient …

Rational vaccinology: harnessing nanoscale chemical design for cancer immunotherapy

Z Huang, CE Callmann, S Wang, MK Vasher… - ACS central …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cancer immunotherapy is a powerful treatment strategy that mobilizes the immune system to
fight disease. Cancer vaccination is one form of cancer immunotherapy, where …

Chemical Amplification-Enabled Topological Modification of Nucleic Acid Aptamers for Enhanced Cancer-Targeted Theranostics

H Chen, Y Li, Z Xiao, J Li, T Li, Z Wang, Y Liu, W Tan - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Site-specific chemical conjugation has long been a challenging endeavor in the field of
ligand-directed modification to produce homogeneous conjugates for precision medicine …

DNA Nanostructures: Self‐Adjuvant Carriers for Highly Efficient Subunit Vaccines

F Shen, H Wang, Z Liu, L Sun - Angewandte Chemie, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Subunit vaccines based on antigen proteins or epitopes of pathogens or tumors show
advantages in immunological precision and high safety, but are often limited by their low …

Dual-layer 3D DNA nanostructure: The next generation of ultrafast DNA nanomachine for microRNA sensing and intracellular imaging

R Meng, X Zhang, J Liu, Y Zhou, P Zhang… - Biosensors and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The working efficiency of traditional 3D DNA nanomachines is extremely restricted due to
the complex DNA components modified on nanoparticles in the same spatial height. Herein …