To PEGylate or not to PEGylate: Immunological properties of nanomedicine's most popular component, polyethylene glycol and its alternatives

D Shi, D Beasock, A Fessler, J Szebeni… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Polyethylene glycol or PEG has a long history of use in medicine. Many conventional
formulations utilize PEG as either an active ingredient or an excipient. PEG found its use in …

[HTML][HTML] Anti-PEG antibodies: Properties, formation, testing and role in adverse immune reactions to PEGylated nano-biopharmaceuticals

GT Kozma, T Shimizu, T Ishida, J Szebeni - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Conjugation of polyethylene glycols (PEGs) to proteins or drug delivery nanosystems is a
widely accepted method to increase the therapeutic index of complex nano …

Aptamers as targeted therapeutics: current potential and challenges

J Zhou, J Rossi - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2017 - nature.com
Nucleic acid aptamers, often termed'chemical antibodies', are functionally comparable to
traditional antibodies, but offer several advantages, including their relatively small physical …

Analysis of aptamer discovery and technology

MR Dunn, RM Jimenez, JC Chaput - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2017 - nature.com
Aptamers are nucleic acid molecules that mimic antibodies by folding into complex 3D
shapes that bind to specific targets. Although some aptamers exist naturally as the ligand …

Therapeutic strategies for thrombosis: new targets and approaches

N Mackman, W Bergmeier, GA Stouffer… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Antiplatelet agents and anticoagulants are a mainstay for the prevention and treatment of
thrombosis. However, despite advances in antithrombotic therapy, a fundamental challenge …

Polyethylene glycol immunogenicity: theoretical, clinical, and practical aspects of anti-polyethylene glycol antibodies

BM Chen, TL Cheng, SR Roffler - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Polyethylene glycol (PEG) is a flexible, hydrophilic simple polymer that is physically attached
to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids, liposomes, and nanoparticles to reduce renal clearance …

Aptamers as therapeutics

SM Nimjee, RR White, RC Becker… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Aptamers are single-stranded nucleic acid molecules that bind to and inhibit proteins and
are commonly produced by systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment …

Antibodies against poly (ethylene glycol) activate innate immune cells and induce hypersensitivity reactions to PEGylated nanomedicines

WA Chen, DY Chang, BM Chen, YC Lin, Y Barenholz… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nanomedicines and macromolecular drugs can induce hypersensitivity reactions (HSRs)
with symptoms ranging from flushing and breathing difficulties to hypothermia, hypotension …

Pseudo-anaphylaxis to polyethylene glycol (PEG)-coated liposomes: roles of anti-PEG IgM and complement activation in a porcine model of human infusion reactions

GT Kozma, T Mészáros, I Vashegyi, T Fülöp… - Acs Nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
Polyethylene glycol (PEG)-coated nanopharmaceuticals can cause mild to severe
hypersensitivity reactions (HSRs), which can occasionally be life threatening or even lethal …

Aptamers in biomedicine: Selection strategies and recent advances

G Ștefan, O Hosu, K De Wael, MJ Lobo-Castañón… - Electrochimica …, 2021 - Elsevier
Aptamers have come in the spotlight as bio-mimetic molecular recognition elements in the
field of biomedicine due to various applications in diagnostics, drug delivery, therapeutics …