Activatable fluorescent probes for in situ imaging of enzymes

X Wu, R Wang, N Kwon, H Ma, J Yoon - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
As the main biomarkers of most diseases, enzymes play fundamental but extremely critical
roles in biosystems. High-resolution studies of enzymes using activatable in situ …

Peptide-based supramolecular systems chemistry

F Sheehan, D Sementa, A Jain, M Kumar… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Peptide-based supramolecular systems chemistry seeks to mimic the ability of life forms to
use conserved sets of building blocks and chemical reactions to achieve a bewildering array …

Enzymatic noncovalent synthesis

H He, W Tan, J Guo, M Yi, AN Shy, B Xu - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Enzymatic reactions and noncovalent (ie, supramolecular) interactions are two fundamental
nongenetic attributes of life. Enzymatic noncovalent synthesis (ENS) refers to a process …

NBD-based synthetic probes for sensing small molecules and proteins: design, sensing mechanisms and biological applications

C Jiang, H Huang, X Kang, L Yang, Z Xi… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Compounds with a nitrobenzoxadiazole (NBD) skeleton exhibit prominent useful properties
including environmental sensitivity, high reactivity toward amines and biothiols (including …

Self-assembling prodrugs

AG Cheetham, RW Chakroun, W Ma… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Covalent modification of therapeutic compounds is a clinically proven strategy to devise
prodrugs with enhanced treatment efficacies. This prodrug strategy relies on the modified …

A comprehensive review on peptide-bearing biomaterials: From ex situ to in situ self-assembly

SY Qin, JQ Feng, YJ Cheng, WL Liu, AQ Zhang… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the last few decades, we have witnessed the great advances of molecular self-assembly
in biomedical applications. Among the building blocks for molecular self-assembly, peptide …

Integrating enzymatic self-assembly and mitochondria targeting for selectively killing cancer cells without acquired drug resistance

H Wang, Z Feng, Y Wang, R Zhou… - Journal of the American …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Targeting organelles by modulating the redox potential of mitochondria is a promising
approach to kill cancer cells that minimizes acquired drug resistance. However, it lacks …

Self-assembling peptides and their application in the treatment of diseases

S Lee, THT Trinh, M Yoo, J Shin, H Lee, J Kim… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Self-assembling peptides are biomedical materials with unique structures that are formed in
response to various environmental conditions. Governed by their physicochemical …

Tandem molecular self‐assembly in liver cancer cells

J Zhan, Y Cai, S He, L Wang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We herein describe the tandem molecular self‐assembly of a peptide derivative (1) that is
controlled by a combination of enzymatic and chemical reactions. In phosphate‐buffered …

Enzymatic assemblies disrupt the membrane and target endoplasmic reticulum for selective cancer cell death

Z Feng, H Wang, S Wang, Q Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is responsible for the synthesis and folding of a large
number of proteins, as well as intracellular calcium regulation, lipid synthesis, and lipid …