[HTML][HTML] Red blood cell membrane-camouflaged nanoparticles: a novel drug delivery system for antitumor application

Q Xia, Y Zhang, Z Li, X Hou, N Feng - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2019 - Elsevier
Erythrocytes (red blood cells, RBCs) are the most abundant circulating cells in the blood and
have been widely used in drug delivery systems (DDS) because of their features of …

Biomimetic erythrocytes engineered drug delivery for cancer therapy

W Zhang, M Zhao, Y Gao, X Cheng, X Liu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cancer is a significant cause of high mortality, while the adverse reactions caused by
traditional chemotherapy inevitably further increase the mortality rate. Although synthetic …

Facilitating CG simulations with MAD: The MArtini database server

C Hilpert, L Beranger, PCT Souza… - Journal of chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The MArtini Database (MAD-https://mad. ibcp. fr) is a web server designed for the sharing of
structures and topologies of molecules parametrized with the Martini coarse-grained (CG) …

Microglial trogocytosis and the complement system regulate axonal pruning in vivo

TKY Lim, ES Ruthazer - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Partial phagocytosis—called trogocytosis—of axons by microglia has been documented in
ex vivo preparations but has not been directly observed in vivo. The mechanisms that …

Molcontroller: A VMD graphical user interface featuring molecule manipulation

CC Wu, S Liu, S Zhang, Z Yang - Journal of Chemical Information …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Visual Molecular Dynamics (VMD) is one of the most widely used molecular graphics
software in the community of theoretical simulations. So far, however, it still lacks a graphical …

CGMD platform: integrated web servers for the preparation, running, and analysis of coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations

A Marchetto, Z Si Chaib, CA Rossi, R Ribeiro… - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Advances in coarse-grained molecular dynamics (CGMD) simulations have extended the
use of computational studies on biological macromolecules and their complexes, as well as …

Optimization of Peptide Linker-Based Fluorescent Ligands for the Histamine H1 Receptor

ZY Kok, LA Stoddart, SJ Mistry… - Journal of medicinal …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The histamine H1 receptor (H1R) has recently been implicated in mediating cell proliferation
and cancer progression; therefore, high-affinity H1R-selective fluorescent ligands are …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient preparation and analysis of membrane and membrane protein systems

M Javanainen, H Martinez-Seara - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2016 - Elsevier
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have become a highly important technique to
consider lipid membrane systems, and quite often they provide considerable added value to …

MERMAID: dedicated web server to prepare and run coarse-grained membrane protein dynamics

M Damre, A Marchetto, A Giorgetti - Nucleic Acids Research, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Atomistic molecular dynamics simulations of membrane proteins have been shown to be
extremely useful for characterizing the molecular features underlying their function, but …

Multiscale method for modeling binding phenomena involving large objects: application to kinesin motor domains motion along microtubules

L Li, J Alper, E Alexov - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Many biological phenomena involve the binding of proteins to a large object. Because the
electrostatic forces that guide binding act over large distances, truncating the size of the …