Protein cages: from fundamentals to advanced applications

TGW Edwardson, MD Levasseur, S Tetter… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Proteins that self-assemble into polyhedral shell-like structures are useful molecular
containers both in nature and in the laboratory. Here we review efforts to repurpose diverse …

Biomaterials Facilitating Dendritic Cell‐Mediated Cancer Immunotherapy

H Dong, Q Li, Y Zhang, M Ding, Z Teng… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Dendritic cell (DC)‐based cancer immunotherapy has exhibited remarkable clinical
prospects because DCs play a central role in initiating and regulating adaptive immune …

Engineering self-assembling protein nanoparticles for therapeutic delivery

A Olshefsky, C Richardson, SH Pun… - Bioconjugate …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Despite remarkable advances over the past several decades, many therapeutic
nanomaterials fail to overcome major in vivo delivery barriers. Controlling immunogenicity …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering nanoparticles to reprogram the tumor immune microenvironment for improved cancer immunotherapy

M Saeed, J Gao, Y Shi, T Lammers, H Yu - Theranostics, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Immunotherapy is rapidly maturing towards extensive clinical use. However, it does not work
well in large patient populations because of an immunosuppressed microenvironment and …

NIR-II light evokes DNA cross-linking for chemotherapy and immunogenic cell death

Y Huang, D Wei, B Wang, D Tang, A Cheng, S Xiao… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2023 - Elsevier
As a DNA damaging agent, oxaliplatin (OXA) can induce immunogenic cell death (ICD) in
tumors to activate the immune system. However, the DNA damage induced by OXA is limited …

Biosynthesis of Self‐Assembled Proteinaceous Nanoparticles for Vaccination

C Pan, J Wu, S Qing, X Zhang, L Zhang… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent years have seen enormous advances in nanovaccines for both prophylactic and
therapeutic applications, but most of these technologies employ chemical or hybrid semi …

Advances in encapsulin nanocompartment biology and engineering

JA Jones, TW Giessen - Biotechnology and bioengineering, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Compartmentalization is an essential feature of all cells. It allows cells to segregate and
coordinate physiological functions in a controlled and ordered manner. Different …

Nanocaged platforms: modification, drug delivery and nanotoxicity. Opening synthetic cages to release the tiger

PS Zangabad, M Karimi, F Mehdizadeh, H Malekzad… - Nanoscale, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanocages (NCs) have emerged as a new class of drug-carriers, with a wide range of
possibilities in multi-modality medical treatments and theranostics. Nanocages can …

[HTML][HTML] Lactate oxidase/catalase-displaying nanoparticles efficiently consume lactate in the tumor microenvironment to effectively suppress tumor growth

H Choi, M Yeo, Y Kang, HJ Kim, SG Park… - Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
The aggressive proliferation of tumor cells often requires increased glucose uptake and
excessive anaerobic glycolysis, leading to the massive production and secretion of lactate to …

Encapsulin cargo loading: progress and potential

JA Jones, R Benisch, TW Giessen - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Encapsulins are a recently discovered class of prokaryotic self-assembling icosahedral
protein nanocompartments measuring between 24 and 42 nm in diameter, capable of …