Chemical approaches to synthetic drug delivery systems for systemic applications

D Braatz, M Cherri, M Tully, M Dimde… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Poor water solubility and low bioavailability of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) are
major causes of friction in the pharmaceutical industry and represent a formidable hurdle for …

Polymer-mediated protein/peptide therapeutic stabilization: current progress and future directions

RP Sivasankaran, K Snell, G Kunkel, P Georgiou… - Progress in Polymer …, 2024 - Elsevier
Proteins and peptides have played a pivotal role in revolutionizing disease treatment over
the last century. Despite their commercial success, protein therapeutics can be eliminated or …

Polyglycerol for half-life extension of proteins—alternative to PEGylation?

M Tully, M Dimde, C Weise, P Pouyan, K Licha… - …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Since several decades, PEGylation is known to be the clinical standard to enhance
pharmacokinetics of biotherapeutics. In this study, we introduce polyglycerol (PG) of different …

Stabilization challenges and aggregation in protein-based therapeutics in the pharmaceutical industry

M Rahban, F Ahmad, MA Piatyszek, T Haertlé, L Saso… - RSC …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Protein-based therapeutics have revolutionized the pharmaceutical industry and become
vital components in the development of future therapeutics. They offer several advantages …

GH and IGF1 in cancer therapy resistance

R Basu, JJ Kopchick - Endocrine-Related Cancer, 2023 - erc.bioscientifica.com
Despite landmark advances in cancer treatments over the last 20 years, cancer remains the
second highest cause of death worldwide, much ascribed to intrinsic and acquired …

Building biomaterials through genetic code expansion

V Sisila, M Indhu, J Radhakrishnan, N Ayyadurai - Trends in Biotechnology, 2023 - cell.com
Genetic code expansion (GCE) enables directed incorporation of noncoded amino acids
(NCAAs) and unnatural amino acids (UNAAs) into the active core that confers dedicated …

Site-Selective Zwitterionic Poly (caprolactone-carboxybetaine)-Growth Hormone Receptor Antagonist Conjugate: Synthesis and Biological Evaluation

J Yang, MB Gelb, K Tamshen, NL Forsythe… - …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Zwitterionic polymers have been found to be biocompatible alternatives to poly (ethylene
glycol)(PEG) for conjugation to proteins. This work reports the site-selective conjugation of …

Bind&Bite: Covalently stabilized heterodimeric coiled-coil peptides for the site-selective, cysteine-free chemical modification of proteins

J Beutel, P Tannig, R Di Vincenzo… - RSC Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Ensuring site-selectivity in covalent chemical modification of proteins is one of the major
challenges in chemical biology and related biomedical disciplines. Most current strategies …

Enhancing Sensitivity of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Biomolecules: Parahydrogen-Induced Hyperpolarization in Synthetic Disulfide-Rich Miniproteins

J Lins, YA Miloslavina, O Avrutina… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Hyperpolarization of small peptides by parahydrogen-induced polarization (PHIP) to
increase the sensitivity of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques is well …

Bioorthogonal PEGylation Prolongs the Elimination Half-Life of N-TIMP2 While Retaining MMP Inhibition

H Hayun, V Arkadash, A Sananes, E Arbely… - Bioconjugate …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs) are natural inhibitors of the matrix
metalloproteinase (MMP) family of proteins, whose members are key regulators of the …