RNA-based therapeutics: an overview and prospectus

Y Zhu, L Zhu, X Wang, H Jin - Cell death & disease, 2022 - nature.com
The growing understanding of RNA functions and their crucial roles in diseases promotes
the application of various RNAs to selectively function on hitherto “undruggable” proteins …

The NLRP3 inflammasome pathway: a review of mechanisms and inhibitors for the treatment of inflammatory diseases

HM Blevins, Y Xu, S Biby, S Zhang - Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The NLRP3 inflammasome is a multiprotein complex that plays a pivotal role in regulating
the innate immune system and inflammatory signaling. Upon activation by PAMPs and …

Analytical characterization of liposomes and other lipid nanoparticles for drug delivery

Y Fan, M Marioli, K Zhang - Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical …, 2021 - Elsevier
Lipid nanoparticles, especially liposomes and lipid/nucleic acid complexed nanoparticles
have shown great success in the pharmaceutical industry. Their success is attributed to …

Recent advancements in liposome technology

N Filipczak, J Pan, SSK Yalamarty… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2020 - Elsevier
The liposomes have continued to be well-recognized as an important nano-sized drug
delivery system with attractive properties, such a characteristic bilayer structure assembling …

Lipid nanoparticle technology for therapeutic gene regulation in the liver

D Witzigmann, JA Kulkarni, J Leung, S Chen… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2020 - Elsevier
Hereditary genetic disorders, cancer, and infectious diseases of the liver affect millions of
people around the globe and are a major public health burden. Most contemporary …

Screening for lipid nanoparticles that modulate the immune activity of helper T cells towards enhanced antitumour activity

Y Zhu, J Ma, R Shen, J Lin, S Li, X Lu… - Nature biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) can be designed to potentiate cancer immunotherapy by
promoting their uptake by antigen-presenting cells, stimulating the maturation of these cells …

Lipid-based DNA therapeutics: hallmarks of non-viral gene delivery

J Buck, P Grossen, PR Cullis, J Huwyler… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Gene therapy is a promising strategy for the treatment of monogenic disorders. Non-viral
gene delivery systems including lipid-based DNA therapeutics offer the opportunity to …

Emerging pyroptosis-engineered nanobiotechnologies regulate cancers and inflammatory diseases: A double-edged sword

Y Zhang, C Fang, W Zhang, K Zhang - Matter, 2022 - cell.com
Pyroptosis is closely associated with tumors and inflammatory diseases. By enhancing
pyroptosis, direct and immune-response-triggered deaths of tumor cells are increased …

A perspective on oligonucleotide therapy: Approaches to patient customization

S Thakur, A Sinhari, P Jain, HR Jadhav - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
It is estimated that the human genome encodes 15% of proteins that are considered to be
disease-modifying. Only 2% of these proteins possess a druggable site that the approved …

Multi-step screening of DNA/lipid nanoparticles and co-delivery with siRNA to enhance and prolong gene expression

Y Zhu, R Shen, I Vuong, RA Reynolds… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Lipid nanoparticles hold great potential as an effective non-viral vector for nucleic acid-
based gene therapy. Plasmid DNA delivery can result in extended transgene expression …