Self-assembled peptide and protein nanostructures for anti-cancer therapy: Targeted delivery, stimuli-responsive devices and immunotherapy

M Delfi, R Sartorius, M Ashrafizadeh, E Sharifi, Y Zhang… - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Self-assembled peptides and proteins possess tremendous potential as targeted drug
delivery systems and key applications of these well-defined nanostructures reside in anti …

Protein-based antigen presentation platforms for nanoparticle vaccines

B Nguyen, NH Tolia - npj Vaccines, 2021 - nature.com
Modern vaccine design has sought a minimalization approach, moving to the isolation of
antigens from pathogens that invoke a strong neutralizing immune response. This approach …

3D nanostructures for tissue engineering, cancer therapy, and gene delivery

A Gholami, SA Hashemi, K Yousefi… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The self‐assembling is a spontaneous progression through which objects of
nanophase/molecules materialize into prepared collections. Several biomolecules can …

Controlling the self-assembly of biomolecules into functional nanomaterials through internal interactions and external stimulations: A review

L Wang, C Gong, X Yuan, G Wei - Nanomaterials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Biomolecular self-assembly provides a facile way to synthesize functional nanomaterials.
Due to the unique structure and functions of biomolecules, the created biological …

Precise assembly of proteins and carbohydrates for next-generation biomaterials

L Li, G Chen - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022 - ACS Publications
The complexity and diversity of biomacromolecules make them a unique class of building
blocks for generating precise assemblies. They are particularly available to a new …

Symmetry-breaking host–guest assembly in a hydrogen-bonded supramolecular system

S Horiuchi, T Yamaguchi, J Tessarolo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Bio-inspired self-assembly is invaluable to create well-defined giant structures from small
molecular units. Owing to a large entropy loss in the self-assembly process, highly …

Nanostructures based on protein self-assembly: From hierarchical construction to bioinspired materials

H Sun, Q Luo, C Hou, J Liu - Nano Today, 2017 - Elsevier
Sophisticated protein self-assemblies have attracted great scientific interests in recent few
decades due to their various potential applications in substance/signal transmission …

Synthetic modularity of protein–metal–organic frameworks

JB Bailey, L Zhang, JA Chiong, S Ahn… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Previously, we adopted the construction principles of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) to
design a 3D crystalline protein lattice in which pseudospherical ferritin nodes decorated on …

Cyclodextrin/surfactant inclusion complexes: An integrated view of their thermodynamic and structural properties

LSS Araújo, G Lazzara, L Chiappisi - Advances in Colloid and Interface …, 2021 - Elsevier
Cyclodextrins (CDs) play an important role in self-assembly systems of amphiphiles. The
structure of CDs provides distinguished physicochemical properties, including the ability to …

Bionanomaterials based on protein self-assembly: Design and applications in biotechnology

R Zeng, C Lv, C Wang, G Zhao - Biotechnology Advances, 2021 - Elsevier
Elegant protein assembly to generate new biomaterials undergoes extremely rapid
development for wide extension of biotechnology applications, which can be a powerful tool …