Protein cages: from fundamentals to advanced applications

TGW Edwardson, MD Levasseur, S Tetter… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Proteins that self-assemble into polyhedral shell-like structures are useful molecular
containers both in nature and in the laboratory. Here we review efforts to repurpose diverse …

Polymers for cytosolic protein delivery

J Lv, Q Fan, H Wang, Y Cheng - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
Cytosolic protein delivery offers opportunities to develop protein-based therapeutics
specifically modulate intracellular processes, especially those linked to 'undruggable'targets …

Discovery of Sulanemadlin (ALRN-6924), the first cell-permeating, stabilized α-helical peptide in clinical development

V Guerlavais, TK Sawyer, L Carvajal… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report the discovery of sulanemadlin (ALRN-6924), the first cell-permeating, stabilized α-
helical peptide to enter clinical trials. ALRN-6924 is a “stapled peptide” that mimics the N …

Recent advances in nanostrategies capable of overcoming biological barriers for tumor management

D Huo, X Jiang, Y Hu - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Engineered nanomaterials have been extensively employed as therapeutics for tumor
management. Meanwhile, the complex tumor niche along with multiple barriers at the …

How do biomolecules cross the cell membrane?

D Pei - Accounts of chemical research, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Biomolecules such as peptides, proteins, and nucleic acids generally cannot
cross a cell membrane by passive diffusion. Nevertheless, cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) …

Design of polymeric carriers for intracellular peptide delivery in oncology applications

S Lv, M Sylvestre, AN Prossnitz, LF Yang… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In recent decades, peptides, which can possess high potency, excellent selectivity, and low
toxicity, have emerged as promising therapeutics for cancer applications. Combined with an …

Opportunities and challenges of protein-based targeted protein degradation

F Shen, LMK Dassama - Chemical Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In the 20 years since the first report of a proteolysis targeting chimeric (PROTAC) molecule,
targeted protein degradation (TPD) technologies have attempted to revolutionize the fields …

A cell-permeant nanobody-based degrader that induces fetal hemoglobin

F Shen, G Zheng, M Setegne, K Tenglin… - ACS Central …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Proximity-based strategies to degrade proteins have enormous therapeutic potential in
medicine, but the technologies are limited to proteins for which small molecule ligands exist …

Polycatechols with robust efficiency in cytosolic peptide delivery via catechol-boronate chemistry

G Rong, L Chen, F Zhu, E Tan, Y Cheng - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cytosolic delivery of peptides remains a challenging task because of the limited binding
sites on peptides and the existence of multiple intracellular barriers. Here, we proposed the …

Recent advances in methods for quantifying the cell penetration of macromolecules

N Batistatou, JA Kritzer - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
As the landscape of macromolecule therapeutics advances, drug developers are continuing
to aim at intracellular targets. To activate, inhibit, or degrade these targets, the …