Designing bioresponsive nanomaterials for intracellular self-assembly

S Chagri, DYW Ng, T Weil - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Supramolecular assemblies are essential components of living organisms. Cellular
scaffolds, such as the cytoskeleton or the cell membrane, are formed via secondary …

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 …

Endosomal escape: A bottleneck for LNP-mediated therapeutics

S Chatterjee, E Kon, P Sharma… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) have recently emerged as a powerful and versatile clinically
approved platform for nucleic acid delivery, specifically for mRNA vaccines. A major …

The intracellular and extracellular microenvironment of tumor site: the trigger of stimuli‐responsive drug delivery systems

X Jing, H Hu, Y Sun, B Yu, H Cong, Y Shen - Small Methods, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The tumor microenvironment (TME), including intracellular and extracellular
microenvironment, contains many biochemical indicators (such as acidity/alkalinity, oxygen …

Rekindling RNAi therapy: materials design requirements for in vivo siRNA delivery

B Kim, JH Park, MJ Sailor - Advanced materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
With the recent FDA approval of the first siRNA‐derived therapeutic, RNA interference
(RNAi)‐mediated gene therapy is undergoing a transition from research to the clinical …

Unravelling cytosolic delivery of cell penetrating peptides with a quantitative endosomal escape assay

SLY Teo, JJ Rennick, D Yuen, H Al-Wassiti… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Cytosolic transport is an essential requirement but a major obstacle to efficient delivery of
therapeutic peptides, proteins and nucleic acids. Current understanding of cytosolic delivery …

Synaptic memory requires CaMKII

W Tao, J Lee, X Chen, J Díaz-Alonso, J Zhou… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Long-term potentiation (LTP) is arguably the most compelling cellular model for learning and
memory. While the mechanisms underlying the induction of LTP ('learning') are well …

Engineering siRNA therapeutics: challenges and strategies

SS Ali Zaidi, F Fatima, SA Ali Zaidi, D Zhou… - Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Small interfering RNA (siRNA) is a potential method of gene silencing to target specific
genes. Although the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved multiple siRNA …

Self-assembly of organic nanomaterials and biomaterials: The bottom-up approach for functional nanostructures formation and advanced applications

D Lombardo, P Calandra, L Pasqua, S Magazù - Materials, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we survey recent advances in the self-assembly processes of novel functional
platforms for nanomaterials and biomaterials applications. We provide an organized …

Engineered amphiphilic peptides enable delivery of proteins and CRISPR-associated nucleases to airway epithelia

S Krishnamurthy, C Wohlford-Lenane… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The delivery of biologic cargoes to airway epithelial cells is challenging due to the
formidable barriers imposed by its specialized and differentiated cells. Among cargoes …