Recent advances in the development of lipid-, metal-, carbon-, and polymer-based nanomaterials for antibacterial applications

R Ren, C Lim, S Li, Y Wang, J Song, TW Lin, BW Muir… - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Infections caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria are becoming a serious threat to
public health worldwide. With an ever-reducing pipeline of last-resort drugs further …

Chiral sulfur nanosheets for dual-selective inhibition of gram-positive bacteria

X Huang, C Lu, W Zhang, L Liu, Z Zha, Z Miao - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Elemental sulfur is the oldest known antimicrobial agent. However, conventional sulfur in the
clinic suffers from poor aqueous solubility and limited antibacterial activity, greatly hindering …

Inverse cubic and hexagonal mesophase evolution within ionizable lipid nanoparticles correlates with mRNA transfection in macrophages

H Yu, J Iscaro, B Dyett, Y Zhang, S Seibt… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
mRNA lipid nanoparticle (LNP) technology presents enormous opportunities to prevent and
treat various diseases. Here, we developed a novel series of LNPs containing ionizable …

Advances in nanostructures for antimicrobial therapy

J Jampilek, K Kralova - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Microbial infections caused by a variety of drug-resistant microorganisms are more common,
but there are fewer and fewer approved new antimicrobial chemotherapeutics for systemic …

A microfluidic platform for the controlled synthesis of architecturally complex liquid crystalline nanoparticles

CP Pilkington, C Contini, JD Barritt, PA Simpson… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Soft-matter nanoparticles are of great interest for their applications in biotechnology,
therapeutic delivery, and in vivo imaging. Underpinning this is their biocompatibility …

Molecular Mechanisms of Cationic Fusogenic Liposome Interactions with Bacterial Envelopes

A Scheeder, M Brockhoff, EN Ward… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Although fusogenic liposomes offer a promising approach for the delivery of antibiotic
payloads across the cell envelope of Gram-negative bacteria, there is still a limited …

[HTML][HTML] Novel bioactive cationic cubosomes enhance the cytotoxic effect of paclitaxel against a paclitaxel resistant prostate cancer cell-line

SP Ragini, J White, N Kirby, R Banerjee… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Hypothesis The study aimed to use molecular hybridization of a cationic lipid with a known
pharmacophore to produce a bifunctional lipid having a cationic charge to enhance fusion …

Cubosome Lipid Nanocarriers As a Drug Delivery Vehicle for Intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infections

S Sarkar, B Dyett, B Lakic, AS Ball, LY Yeo… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) causes the infectious disease tuberculosis (TB),
responsible for more deaths than any other single infectious disease in history. Intracellular …

Celecoxib-Loaded Cubosomal Nanoparticles as a Therapeutic Approach for Staphylococcus aureus In Vivo Infection

SZ Alshawwa, TA El-Masry, M Nasr, AY Kira… - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
There is a great need for novel approaches to treating bacterial infections, due to the vast
dissemination of resistance among pathogenic bacteria. Staphylococcus aureus are …

[PDF][PDF] Permanently Charged Cationic Lipids—Evolution from Excipients to Therapeutic Lipids

S Pushpa Ragini, R Banerjee, CJ Drummond… - Small Science, 2024 - d-nb.info
Complex diseases such as cancer and microbial infections are multifactorial in nature with
numerous redundant signalling pathways involved in the disease development.[1–3] …